These $2000 debit cards....VERY strange - now mentioned all over media

[jackstraw45]

Edit - not sure how this got posted in this forum...meant for GD - Sorry!

Few questions:

1. Are recipients required to sign papers in order to get the cards? What kind of indemnity is included? Any loyalty oaths involved (okay, kidding about that one)?

2. What kind of precedent is this setting for future disasters? Does the Buish administration think that a $2000 "payoff" to victims will sway public opinion? Sort of a $300 "tax cut" redux?

3. What proof of hurricane exposure is offered in exchange for one of these cards?

Sorry but I just get the feeling that the Feds are finding a way to screw victims all over again.

[merwin]

1. 4a. How much is that particular bank getting paid?

4a. Is that bank run by Haliburton?

[chalky]

2. Speaking of that $300 rebate...

Are these cards actually borrowing from next year's taxes?

[kdmorris]

3. I just figured they have it on the media

to show how it's "working out really well" for the evacuees.

I don't know what they have to do to get the cards.

[ET Awful]

4. My primary question is what kind of claim to additional damages do victims

waive if they sign to receive one of these cards?

I wouldn't put it past this group to have them sign a release of all claims in return for $2000 in an attempt to get them to sign away the right join in any class action or other lawsuits against the agencies that abjectly failed to do their job.

[sue_66]

5. Considering

the survivors of 9/11 received over a Million dollars on average, well 2000 seems like a pittance. Repukes are already bitching about it. They act as if they are jealous.