I'm tired of my taxes going to lazy FEMA recipients!

[politicaholic]

Dear Whiny Southern Republican Red States,

More of my hard earned money goes to people who are too lazy to move out of hurricane, tornado, and earthquake areas than should be allowed by law. Living here in America it is my prerogative, nay, my DUTY to only think of myself.

You see, I live in Seattle. We have our fare share of flooding, some mud slides, maybe a forest fire here and there, but we don't suckle off of the federal government's teat every time we have a little disaster! We buck up! We put our noses to the grind stone! We lift ourselves up by the boot straps! We cliche our selves by the nonsensical comparison! In other words, we're not lazy wimps like all of you people in the southern republican red states.

Oh! Has the GOP convinced you that federal welfare for the poor is sooooooo expensive? Wait until the bill for your clean up and the insurance company bail out comes. Welfare is all of a sudden looking like a rainy day fund now isn't it?

Oh! Is the federal government always getting all up in your business and needs to be downsized? Apparently not when your SUV is lodged in the side of the Walmart. Not when the roof of your house was last seen still flying over Guatemala.

Are you living in your car now? Can't work because your job is floating in the Gulf of Mexico? Boo-f*#@ing-hoo. You should have thought of that BEFORE you decided to settle in an area that is known to suck trailers into the sky like a giant Hoover with an attitude. You should have in the bank as much money as all of your possessions cost, including your house, so that we (and when I say "we" I mean "I") don't have to pay for your misfortune and lack of planning.

Really. When are you lazy southern republican states going to grow up and figure out that being southern democrat wasn't so bad? It actually had benefits, like having social programs that were compassionate to fellow Americans who were down on their luck rather than saying "Screw you, it's every man for himself, and whether it's your house destroyed or you can't find enough food to feed your family, who cares, it doesn't effect me. I LIVE SOMEWHERE REASONABLE!"

So eat your communist FEMA welfare. Bundle up next to pinko FEMA government handout and let it keep you warm. Just remember, we helped you out when you needed it because your a person, an American, just like all of us.

And by the way, next election, vote Kerry, because if you don't the Federal Government may not be so compassionate the next time mother nature spits in your face, kicks you in the shins, and takes your lunch money.

Sincerely,
Politicaholic...Liberal

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. well done!

I think you should submit this as an op-ed

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. What's Well Done About Telling Folks Who Have Lost Everything To Fuck Them

selves?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. What's well done is it's addressed to the same people who

constantly tell everyone who's lost everything to go fuck themselves. A taste of their own medicine is EXTREMELY well done.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. It's satire.

I have noticed around here (Central Florida) that they talk big about getting out and helping your neighbors. Hey, these are the same neighbors who tried to adversely possess property -- because that's stealing it fair and square per Republican rules. And, hey, these are the same neighbors who called my race deadbeats & lazy. What they really want is free labor because their normal lawn service guys, who they call, "their n******" are too busy with work right now to return their calls.

And hey, in order not to stoke the fires, they say it's the AMERICAN thing to help your neighbor, not the CHRISTIAN thing. Who knew that Jeb Bush and his cronies would know to stay secular in a crisis?

[Lindacooks]

58. This is intended as a lesson to Repukes, and there are

a LOT of them in the South, who whine about big government and high taxes and vote to cut government and cut taxes and then run, squalling, right to that big government they say they hate when they need help.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I Hope This Is Intended As Irony...

nt

[Bridget Burke]

5. Surely. Nobody is really that idiotically shortsighted.

Seattle is on the Pacific Rim. Therefore, it's vulnerable to earthquakes & tsunami.

And all those volcanoes in the Cascades are mostly dormant, aren't they?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. The Boostap Part Is Too Much...

Not many natural disasters compare to being hit by four hurricanes in one month...

[SidDithers]

57. The people of Pompeii might disagree with you...nt

Sid

[politicaholic]

6. It's satire. Don't let your sensativities get the best of you.

:)

[RobertSeattle]

8. Just think how much lower taxes would be if Conservatives acted that way

The just hate "BIG Gov'ment" when a (D) is in charge.

[fishnfla]

10. Yeah and FUCK the migrant workers that FEMA is helping too

They shouldn't even be here! They dont pay taxes! So what if the hurricanes wiped out everything they have, even the jobs they came here. Tough titty amigos!

Can you believe our goverment is not even checking for green cards and helping anyone regardless of financial staus, citizenship or skin color?

Bullshit, let 'em suffer!~

[politicat]

14. Legal migrant workers DO pay taxes and SS... and can't claim the SS.

Social Security is propped up in a very real way by the non-citizen population in this country.

Pcat

[BlueCollar]

11. Living in a "Southern Whiney Redneck State"...

Texas...

and I just spewed coffee all over the monitor....

"Apparently not when your SUV is lodged in the side of the Walmart..."

What a great line...Thanks for the smile

[DrWeird]

12. All these people do all day is squirt out babies...

and blast country music from their fancy stereos they paid for with my tax dollars.

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. I like it.

I wonder if it would make the "whiny Southern Red States" think a little before they judge others who are less fortunate than they? Nah...that would require some compassion.

I nominated for the home page and I, too, think this would be a terrific op ed piece! Good job!

suck trailers into the sky like a giant Hoover with an attitude

GREAT line! LOL! :hi:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. Did You Ever Think Dems Live In Red States?

Gore didn't get 100% in Cali and * didn't get 100% in Alabama.....

As a Floridian I find some of these comments offensive...

I have met lots of Dems who have been harmed by these storms....

[in_cog_ni_to]

19. This isn't about the Democrats or Liberals.

It's about the people who whine and cry CONSTANTLY about BIG GOVERNMENT....until THEY need it. My heart goes out to all the people damaged by those storms and I just hope the next time they decide to vote against Headstart programs, Welfare, Medicare, Childhelp, extended umemployment, overtime pay, ANYTHING BIG GOVERNMENT ect...they will think about how THEY needed help when they lost everything they had. Think about all the people who have spent their lives working their asses off and lost everything when their jobs were outsourced. Or their company went out of business. Or their company downsized.... Did THOSE people ask for that? Did those people expect to be unemployed? Did they expect to lose everything they had worked so hard for? NO. They didn't, but the FUCKING republicans don't GIVE A SHIT about them. They call them LAZY LIBERALS. This is only throwing THEIR BULLSHIT back in their faces. Simple as that.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. I Don't Think You Can Compare Having Your Job Outsourced

To Losing Your Home To A Hurricane...

[camero]

22. You lose your home when your job is outsourced

Besides, those FEMA recipients could move to another place.

>sarcasm

Way to go on not getting it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

23. I'm Sorry I Lack Your Level Of Sophistication...

Us red staters are so dumb...


By the way I have lived through three hurricanes... I have lived in Florida since 1970... My folks moved here when I was a kid so I didn't have much choice about where I call home...

[maryallen]

35. Take the chip off your shoulder and ...

get a sense of humor.

Life will not be so hard on you, if you do.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

48. I Don't Have A Chip On My Shoulder...

I just don't think tragedies are funny...


I have friends who have lost their homes... I have friends who have lost their businesses... I have friends who have seen their jobs disappear...

Rather than play the "my tragedy is bigger than your tragedy" game as a small l liberal I try to have compassion and empathy for anybody who has been dealt the proverbial bad hand..

I have spent the past six weeks helping my eighty year year old mom who is an amputee and has stage four colon cancer dodge hurricanes...


Btw, if you doubt the veracity of my statements there are DUers I know from this board in real life....

[in_cog_ni_to]

26. If your job is outsourced, the economy is in the toilet,

you can't find a job to pay your bills, you use all your savings (IF you have any) to pay those bills, the economy never improves, you never find a job, you can't pay your bills anymore because your savings is gone....YOU LOSE YOUR HOUSE. It happens all the time. There is no difference. Maybe the time element. In a hurricane you lose your home in a day or 2. Oursourced job...you lose your house in a matter of months....just a slower loss. That doesn't make it any less painful.

[camero]

33. Exactly

As you said, it's not their fault either and should receive help with dignity. The pubies only like charity and socialism when it comes their way.

[GodHelpUsAll2]

32. You are right.... you can't

compare. Loosing everything because the government thought it was more profitable to leave you in the dust and this countries obvious obsession with greed is far worse than loosing everything to a freak of nature disaster. As it was clearly put in this satire, FEMA is there to help and there are government bail outs for those effected by natural disasters. Who's bailing out the millions who can't find work and have lost everything? NO ONE! Where I feel for people who loose everything in a natural disaster, I have to stop and ask, do those same people who's lives have been thrown into temporary chaos while waiting on insurance payments and the government bail outs over the natural disaster ever stop to think for one second about the many families who who's entire lives are in the toilet and there is no insurance payment or goverment bail out to get them back to a normal life?

[yardwork]

56. It's more than just a job being outsourced

It's having no health insurance so that your illnesses become crises and you and your family die sooner than you would have if you had had decent basic healthcare.

That's just one example. There is an unfolding disaster in this country but it isn't natural. It's deliberate and man-made and it affects millions of people. More people than a hundred hurricanes could ever affect.

[yardwork]

55. The poster's point is that this is unfair and ridiculous

It's satire. The poster is making the point that ALL people - of all ethnicities, regions, political persuasions, etc. - who are guilty of saying or thinking "let people take care of themselves" - are vulnerable to their own disasters.

The poster is not attacking anybody. She/he is pointing out how selfish the Republican platform is by using a real-world example.

Of COURSE we step in to help people who are victims of natural disasters. The point that the poster made is this - we all suffer from unexpected disasters in our lives, and it only makes sense to help out our fellow citizens. Hence, the logic of the Democratic Party's platform - help your neighbor.

Seems I heard that in the Bible someplace, too.

[knowbody0]

16. if ya build your house

on sand you choose to risk loosing it. just like the flood people. i say 3 strikes and your out. it's nuts to rerun the omg it's a hurricane! mobile homes should be outlawed in some areas.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. How About Folks Who Can't Afford Anything More Than Mobile Homes?

nt

[jumpstart33]

17. I think you should send it Rush and Hannity and Pat Robertson.

They really need to read it.

[politicaholic]

20. Done...anything else?

:evilgrin:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

24. Excellent satire..the LA Times had an article demonstrating that the poor

were hit worst by these hurricanes. There was a quote by some government agency individual stating they would do their best to rebuild low income housing but the very next sentence indicated that developers had these properties in their sites and wanted to build condos...the poor will get squeezed out..Repubs could care less about low income housing..living proof that if you want to live like a Republican, then VOTE DEMOCRATIC!

[donkeyotay]

25. Oh yeah, it needs to be said

Right thinkin Mercuns hate SOCIALISM, until they need it. Free marketeers BELIEVED in the market, until Enron happened and they said, "of course, we need regulation." It's all about kicking other people when they're down, but calling on the social contract when it's convenient. (Social contract, ain't that the one the Contract on America replaced?)

:eyes:

It's satire folks, like the famous piece written recommending people eat poor babies... I forget who... the writer doesn't mean to offend those who have suffered from the storm, but rather to nudge the consciences of those who think there's no need for a public good.

[BamaGirl]

44. Jonathon Swift

A Modest Proposal I think is the name. Marvelous satire, both pieces.

~~BamaGirl

[bandy]

27. The man who suffered Charlie

would be glad to read this. He requested help from FEMA to repair his badly damaged home and received a check for $1.69.

[no_arbusto]

28. Speaking of FEMA

Guess who's not happy with *?

Disaster in the making

As FEMA weathers a storm of Bush administration policy and budget changes, protection from natural hazards may be trumped by “homeland security”.

..........

At FEMA, President Bush appointed a close aide, Joe Allbaugh, to be the agency's new director. Allbaugh had served as then-Gov. Bush's chief of staff in Texas and as manager of his 2000 presidential campaign. Along with Karl Rove and Karen Hughes, Allbaugh was known as one part of Bush's "iron triangle" of professional handlers.

.........

But since 2001, key federal disaster mitigation programs, developed over many years, have been slashed and tossed aside. FEMA's Project Impact, a model mitigation program created by the Clinton administration, has been canceled outright. Federal funding of post-disaster mitigation efforts designed to protect people and property from the next disaster has been cut in half, and now, communities across the country must compete for pre-disaster mitigation dollars.

http://indyweek.com/durham/current/cover.html

[Kanary]

29. "Poor, Black and Left Behind"

I posted this article on DU a few days ago...... look at it, and see if it doesn't fit into this whole RW agenda:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2413876

Published on Friday, September 24, 2004 by TomDispatch.com
Poor, Black, and Left Behind
by Mike Davis

The evacuation of New Orleans in the face of Hurricane Ivan looked sinisterly like Strom Thurmond's version of the Rapture. Affluent white people fled the Big Easy in their SUVs, while the old and car-less -- mainly Black -- were left behind in their below-sea-level shotgun shacks and aging tenements to face the watery wrath.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0924-02.htm

[politicaholic]

30. thanks...good article

[GodHelpUsAll2]

31. That was hysterical

I spit my coke all over the monitor and am crying I laughed so hard at the "your roof was last seen still flying somewhere over Guatemala"

ROFLOL I would like to email this to a few people. OK with you?

[politicaholic]

34. knock yourself out, I already sent it to Sean Hannity....

They'll never hear it on HIS pathetic fiasco...er...show.

[mitchum]

36. Well done!

[Cleita]

37. Now to rub their noses in it.

:thumbsup:

[quaker bill]

38. You just don't get it.

Conservative republicanism was never actually about shrinking government, that was just the marketing line. It was actually about growing government and controlling who gets the biggest slice of the profits.

The south votes republican and they are in power. Therefore, we get the biggest slice.

Top it off with the understanding that we are the low wage, right-to-work (anti-union), low tax, poor schools, low service, economic sector for the US and you begin to understand why our service industry and migrant farm workers could use a FEMA loan.

[JackDragna]

39. Damn straight!

When will we stop giving money to these hurricane-stricken welfare queens? Putting their houses in harm's way just to collect insurance money. It's disgraceful!

[trumad]

40. I was a Fema inspector a couple of weeks back

but had to quit because I couldn't be deployed for 3 weeks to Alabama. Most of my inspections were in the Orlando, Kissimmee area. The devastation to homes and peoples lives is immense. With a standard 2 percent deductible for the total value of your house most folks cannot afford to get their homes repaired. Charley (the first Hurricane) did most of the structural damage and Francis and Jeanne provided the rain/wind swept knockout punch.

As a tax paying citizen I have no problems with my tax contributions helping these poor unfortunate people. I'd feel the same way if it was a quake in SF or a Tornado in Oklahoma.

The folks who post threads (I'm not saying it's this one but I've seen a few here on DU) and disparage folks who are hurting after going through 3 Hurricanes, well, those folks can kiss my ass! They are cold, heartless and will surely burn in Hell!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

49. I Live In Central Florida...

I have one friend who had a tree fall in his house while he was in it... Another friend who had the roof of his condo blown off while he was in it(before someone thinks he was a high living condo dweller his condo is worth about $40,000.00) ...Another friend who can't find advertisers for the little community newspaper he was trying to start....


I have no problem helping someone who needs help... Whether he lost his job because of outsourcing or lost his home or business because of a natural disaster and I could care less about the ideology of the person that needs help...


That's what makes me a liberal....

[hiphopnation]

41. kick

Excellent. :thumbsup:

[Blue_Tires]

42. ttt...well written n/t

[Zorra]

43. A virtual Pike St. Brewery cyber Kilt Lifter Scottish to you! Brilliant!

:toast:

[Andromeda]

45. LMAF!!!

Very funny. :)

[KT2000]

46. Good one!

Budget cuts are supposed to only affect the other guy - NOT ME!!! I deserve mine!

[JNelson6563]

47. Funny stuff

Love the satire. :toast:

[prolesunited]

50. You should post this

on some conservative and libertarian message boards.

[Elginoid]

51. If Seattletonians are so self-sufficient...

how come they cried and whined like a little bitch for federal aid just because Boeing packed up and moved to Chicago...?

[WillyT]

52. Bravo !!! - Brilliant !!!

:bounce::evilgrin::bounce:

[politicaholic]

59. thank you so much...sniff

:)

[hedgehog]

53. But seriously folks-

I live in Upstate New York State where I pay taxes for snow removal and put up with all those pesky regulations like having to build a roof that can take 6' of snow. On top of that, I can't even deduct my full state income tax. No one notices our annual disasters because we take care of them ourselves. We go to work all winter in weather that shuts down entire states down south because they won't buy snow removal equipment. How much per capita are New Yorkers paying for federal disaster relief vs. Floridians? I think we should help, but not when your state's low taxes are taking my state's jobs.

[Sputnik]

54. Deserves a kick

The Daily Show might just have a spot for you. :D