Katrina fall-out

The people looting for food and water - I'm ok with. The people looting
for fancy clothes, jewelry, etc, I'm all with the original poster on.

--
Guy

You must be a Socialist. Steal from one and give to another.


"Guy Elden Jr" wrote in message
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The people looting for food and water - I'm ok with. The people looting
for fancy clothes, jewelry, etc, I'm all with the original poster on.

--
Guy

Lavish tastes of card-carrying lowlifes

Profiteering ghouls have been using debit cards distributed in the wake
of Hurricane Katrina - intended to buy essentials for evacuated
families - in luxury-goods stores as far away as Atlanta.

"We've seen three of the cards," said a senior employee of the Louis
Vuitton store at the Lenox Square Mall in affluent Buckhead, who asked
not to be named. "Two I'm certain have purchased; one actually asked if
she could use it in the store. This has been since Saturday."

The distinctive white cards were distributed by the Red Cross and the
Federal Emergency Management Agency and carry a value of up to $2,000.

"It doesn't say anything on the card other than alcohol, tobacco and
firearms cannot be purchased with it," the store employee told me.
"There's nothing legally that prevents us from taking it,
unfortunately. Other than morally, it's wrong."

The source told me that the two women who had made purchases with the
card each bought a signature monogrammed Louis Vuitton handbag in the
$800 range.

"They didn't look destitute by any stretch. You would never have said,
'They must be one of the evacuees.' ... The one that I dealt with
yesterday was 20. She'll be 21 next month." The source described the
reaction of other store-keepers in the mall - which includes luxury
brands Ferragamo, Burberry, Judith Leiber and Neiman Marcus - as
"outrage."

"It doesn't say anywhere on there, but it would have to be a good
amount to be shopping in here," the source said with a dark chuckle.

source: http://nydailynews.com/front/story/345030p-294601c.html

Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone

pictures of Katrina damages

http://www.plaqueminesparish.com/Eme...orePhotos.html

Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone

Profiteering ghouls have been using debit cards distributed in the wake
of Hurricane Katrina - intended to buy essentials for evacuated
families - in luxury-goods stores as far away as Atlanta.

This is news? Anyone with half a brain knew that there would be rampant,
massive fraud associated with the government handing out $2K debit cards to
Katrina victims.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

The New Louisiana Purchase
Wouldn't it be more cost effective and cost the taxpayers less money for
the Federal Government to just pay all the property owners 10% over
appraised value for all the real estate in New Orleans and turn the area
into a big coastal National Park?

New Orleans is a major port exporting grain from the Midwest to the
world so they just can't walk away.

"john smith" wrote in message
...
The New Louisiana Purchase
Wouldn't it be more cost effective and cost the taxpayers less money
for
the Federal Government to just pay all the property owners 10% over
appraised value for all the real estate in New Orleans and turn the
area
into a big coastal National Park?

In article SZWUe.1946$b37.1338@trnddc04, sfb wrote:
New Orleans is a major port exporting grain from the Midwest to the
world so they just can't walk away.


Not insignificant but hardly crucial; New Orleans ranks #14 in the top
20 U.S. Ports:

(http://www.bts.gov/publications/us_i.../table_13.html)

Still, a grain terminal could be maintained without risking a million
people.

Nice try baby, but your chart is ranked by container shipping. Grain are
bulk cargos. Levees are needed to maintain water depth for navigation.

"Doug Carter" wrote in message
ire.net...
In article SZWUe.1946$b37.1338@trnddc04, sfb wrote:
New Orleans is a major port exporting grain from the Midwest to the
world so they just can't walk away.


Not insignificant but hardly crucial; New Orleans ranks #14 in the top
20 U.S. Ports:

(http://www.bts.gov/publications/us_i.../table_13.html)

Still, a grain terminal could be maintained without risking a million
people.

sfb opined

New Orleans is a major port exporting grain from the Midwest to the
world so they just can't walk away.

Ports further up the Mississippi are more important for geain shipping.



-ash
Cthulhu in 2005!
Why wait for nature?