Comments on: Katrina Housing Funds Go To Port Instead

Mississippi's Move To Divert HUD Money Questioned As Affordable Housing Remains Scarce

[blondmadison]

Why don''t they employ the homeless with portions of the grant money instead of contracting the work out and being ripped off thru those channels too?

Why can''t anyone care about the plight of the indigent homeless? R U sick or what?

[blondmadison]

PURE ROTTEN!

When things like this happen, it makes me wonder if the levy was allowed to break, knowing it would create a path for the WEALTHY to rebuild on the cemetary plots of the indigent.

Like Donald Trump. He made a bid and is planning on a hotel there now. Picking dead men clean is a booming business.

Who received kickbacks in this venture?

I found it appalling that they would consider a football stadium with the wow wow latest in lighting more important than the homeless. That too spoke volumes.

Who prospers from these ventures? Follow the money trail and get the freaks on video spending their loot. Get their addresses on the Internet. Get their photos on the Internet. They are nastier criminals than outright murderers.

This makes me ill.

[hdinsight]

To those who are writing senseless comments, to those who lack the understanding & the compassion to fully grasp the HORROR OF A NATURAL DISASTER: The HUD grant''s chief purpose is to provide assistance to the displaced HOMEOWNERS so the individual families & communities can RECOVER/REBUILD. It''s been over 2 years since Katrina struck. With close to 41,000 families in Mississippi displaced & struggling, it is clear that HUD is failing to achieve their mission. To give $600,000,000.00 of HUD money to the port when THOUSANDS of families have not been addressed is OUTRAGEOUS, CORRUPT, UNJUST & UNETHICAL. How can it be acceptable to see foreign ships pull into a harbor while 41,000 of our nation''s families in Mississippi sleep on park benches? Why don''t more AMERICANS care about their FELLOW AMERICANS? This isn''t a time for judgement. Only righteous fools judge.

[gopack443]

If this keeps up sooner or latter the people down there are going to get off there a$$''$ and start doing for themselves like the rest of the world.
Let''s all hope they find a way to milk the rest of the county before they do something crazy, LIKE GET A JOB! And if that''s not possible to get a job there move to where there are jobs!

[joyous88]

These guys are just some more of the conservative evangelical criminals from the white house

another gift from the president of the US and the mindless christian vote

[ubrew12]

I ask again: Why are we pitting port reconstruction AGAINST housing for the displaced (i.e. aren''t we big enough to rebuild both)???

This would have been a no-brainer in the past. 30 years of supply=side economics has turned this country to sh*t. $1 trillion just spent to ensure Bush''s cronies have the rights to Iraqi oil. I weep for this nation, now fighting itself for the pittance earmarked for Katrina (ports vs housing, truly pathetic).

[rowdytexan2]

And you have forgotten that the insurance companies, your other big business bastwards have taken their good little time to pay off to the ones that did have insurance.

Again, you are idiots!

[hungry1968]

Hungry1968,
I''''m referring to homeowners in flood prone areas that should have flood insurance as well as homeowners storm insurance. The cost of living is high in the US. What makes it high is law abiding citizens having to pick up the tab for irresponsible people''''s messes.

Posted by runningralph at 10:22 AM : Jan 26, 2008



People that live in houses 10 feet above high tide level within a few hundred feet of the ocean aren''t living in flood prone areas.

The only way those areas could be flooded, is by something such as a storm surge generated by a hurricane. But the people with hurricane insurance were routinely denied their claims, because the insurance companies claimed the "storm surge" was actually a flood - impossible under any circumstance except for a hurricane.

[rowdytexan2]

So, what you guys are saying is that it''s just ok for the money that earmarked for HUD to replace housing for people be given to rebuild the port that benefits big business??? How very corruptly parsimonious of you! Let the people sleep in the streets while business just rolls right along!!!

YOU ARE IDIOTS!!!

[berniepeders]

Individual housing is the responsibility of the individual who should maintain adequate insurance. A seaport is a muscle of a nation. Public housing is an infection.

Posted by runningralph at 09:16 AM : Jan 26, 2008

ralph-

You are absolutely right. I couldn''t agree more. Anyone who doesn''t agree with your statement is too ignorant to bother arguing with.
Peace brother.