Strength Enough To Hate America
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  Stop Wallowing. Get To Work.
 
When will the inhabitants of New Orleans stop wallowing and get to work rebuilding their homes?

Update:  June 3, 2008 below
Will these people ever understand that in the entire history of all mankind there have never been people more fortunate than the people who live in the United States of America?
Why do they hate America & love to denigrate her flag?
How can these people continue to fail to understand that they have every opportunity that any -- every -- American citizen has?
The US government committed $127 billion in resources and tax relief in the two years since hurricanes Katrina and Rita for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. Following World War II the US government spent an inflation adjusted $107 billion between 1947 and 1951 on the Marshall Plan to rebuild 16 European nations.
Will these people ever stop complaining that America is not fair?
Where in the world on any continent -- including Africa -- at any time ever before, or today, or tomorrow, have these people had more opportunity, more support, more aid, more caring?
Will they ever understand that it is time to stop taking, stop whining, stop blaming America?
Will they ever understand that it is time to get to work rebuilding their homes?
The hallmark of Katrina is that after one full year has passed these people continue to whine and have failed to rebuild.
The US government has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance. Tens of millions of dollars have been lost through fraud, graft, and thievery. Generous Americans across the nation contributed money have lost millions of dollars to criminals who usurped the money intended for victims.
Do these victims recall the the victims of hurricane Andrew in 1992? Those victims accepted reasonable assistance and charity. They rebuilt their homes and their city, Homestead, Florida, within a few years. It soon was again a thriving, clean, productive city.
Katrina's victims prove that it is easier to whine and take than to work and rebuild.
No one should be surprised when quite possibly, America has no more to give... or have taken from her.
Update:  June 3, 2008 -- NBC News in Biloxi reports that nearly three years after hurricane Katrina, there are people continuing to live off the taxpayers.
Some were located living in air conditioned rooms in a Quality Inn motel. These individuals moved there after their stay in the FEMA-provided trailers ended. However, these rooms are paid for by FEMA.
FEMA was unable to provide the exact costs for meals and hotel rooms. However, FEMA repeatedly states that it works with people to locate permanent housing and will not leave any Katrina victim homeless.
Since Katrina -- nearly three years ago -- the US Attorney's Office in Mississippi has charged over 275 people with fraud.