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Hey New Orleans - get over it!

August 31st, 2007 by Double Tap

I’m about to piss someone off, probably someone from Louisiana, but I’m going to have to do it anyway. Here goes.

I’m sick of hearing about Katrina. I’m tired of hearing the whining and crying about how the federal government didn’t do enough. I don’t want to hear any more Ray Nagin crap about still needing the National Guard to patrol his city TWO YEARS after that storm. I’m tired of hearing about people expecting a damn hand-out instead of actually doing something to better their own lives.

You were living six feet under sea level! What did you expect? And, hate to break it to you, this wasn’t the first hurricane to drown New Orleans. In fact, it gets hit every 12 or so years. Plus, the city is actually sinking. Given those facts, why are you even trying to rebuild that city - especially in the low-lying areas?

John Hawkins joins the chorus:

Moreover, people lose their homes in this country every day of the year. If it isn’t a hurricane, it’s an earthquake. If it isn’t an earthquake, it’s a tornado. If it isn’t a tornado, it’s a fire. If it isn’t a fire, it’s a flood. Yet nobody sits and frets about John Doe, age 58, who lost his house in a flash flood two years ago or Jane Doe, age 60, who had her house blown away by a twister back in 2005.

But, we’re all supposed to eternally sit around and weep tiny little tears of sadness for the people who really took it on the chin in a hurricane because they chose to live in a city shaped like a soup bowl on the coast. Let me tell all the citizens of New Orleans something that should have been told to them 18 months ago: it’s time to stop playing the sympathy card and get over it.

Nobody is owed a living for the rest of his life because he had a bad break two years ago. Yet, we still have people affected by Katrina who have FEMA paying their rent. How sad and pathetic is it that these shiftless people are still leaching off their fellow citizens? Since when is being in the path of a hurricane supposed to give you a permanent “Get Out of Work Free” card?

From the East Valley Tribune in Arizona:

Though many families have returned to the Gulf Coast, and others have thrived here, a good number of Katrina evacuees brought with them the same problems they had before the hurricane: poverty, joblessness, substance abuse and other dysfunctions.

Only here, they lacked family and other support systems that had propped them up. So in many cases, once the free leases expired or the funding ran out, the families were unable to afford their homes and keep themselves afloat. Many, like Clifton Drummer, were evicted.

Oh man, cry me a river. So, the guy was a loser in New Orleans, and he didn’t bother to get a job when he got to Arizona. Boo friggin’ hoo. And, it sounds like some thought their “victim” status meant a free pass for the rest of their lives…

“Some of them got too much help too soon,” (Ross) Patterson says. “And they thought it would never come to an end.”

If you’re a Katrina victim that’s put your life back together and doesn’t expect the government to support you the rest of your life - then God bless you. This post wasn’t meant for you.

But if you’re one of those types described above, please, do the rest of this country a favor and get your act together. There’s plenty of other welfare recipients the government wants to give my tax dollars to.

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One Response to “Hey New Orleans - get over it!”

  1. Cheryl, on January 9th, 2008 at 12:01 pm Said:

    Big Ole 10-4. These people are acting like their lives have been wronged by a worse tragedy than 9-11. It was an act of God. I can’t believe Brad Pitt and Angelina have “moved” there to help these people and raise awareness. Like it’s a 3rd world country…

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