Comments on: Are FEMA Trailers Making Residents Sick?

CBS News: Homes For Those Displaced By Katrina Can Contain High Toxin Levels

[phoenix1218]

neocon:
1) a neoconservative.
2) by 1987, abbreviation for neo-conservative in the U.S. political sense.

Neo-conservative:
1) renegade liberal

[lastdance2]

Remember :

Pres. Bush : Awarded all the "Hurricane Katrina"
construction contracts to :

His Former Campain manager.

His - "Former Campain" manager :
Divided the contracts between his family members.
Including their - Inlaws

That's it ! ! ! ! -
No more contracts left.

No criminal complaints from the : Justice Department ! ! !
On that call ! ! !


Lastdance

[anonbychoice]

I went to Biloxi almost a year after Katrina hit. It saddened my heart to see the "what used to be is no more" area's. But what I haven't yet understood, is the attitude that people had with "visitors." Acting like it was our fault they were in the position they were in.
Placing blame is always easier than accepting responsibility for your own "ills". It will forever be someone else's fault.
I await the day that someone stands up and say's "I knew it could happen, but I chose to stay." I don't see it coming anytime soon, and while I find it heart breaking...I have to agree with this statement "because no one controls nature but the people chose to live there, the people chose not to leave". Hell they're blaming the president, when they're own MAYOR could have saved so many lives.......but like I said, it's easier to place blame everywhere but where it lies.....

[carolv43]

We've lived in a FEMA trailer for nearly 2 years. I've learned alot about things I never even thought I ever would and I learned alot about things I feel stupid for not knowing, that I should have. We're all too busy w/ our lives and take soo much for granted, that when something that never happened before does, we all act shocked, because we are. I can honestly say that I've also learned EVERYONE'S situation is THEIR own and no one has a right to judge what their actions/inactions they may have to make. We have always been hard workers, and when you know what your credit limits are, but don't know if or how much assistance we may get, but we do know that what has to be done will cost more just to get us where we were than what we can afford to do, you MUST play their games and wait for what we paid taxes for in the first place. NOT A HANDOUT!!!!

[mdc76082]

I got one question, what happened to all the poo, raw sewage, mold, dead animals, missing human bodies, stagnant water, etc. I'm sure that this stuff just doesn't walk away by itself. Why on earth would anyone want to stick it out and stay in a cesspool. Not only the chemicals in a trailer but the environment has got to be unhealthy. There's got to be some very, very unhealthy organisms wiggeling around in the soil in LA and MS. Rebuild? Go back and live there? Not on my life or the health of my kids. If you didn't have homeowners or renters insurance...oh well tough tit_ties. If you did, I hope the best for you in the outcome of your claim. But, I would never, ever, in a lifetime go back and live anywhere near there. It's time to move on...start over...I don't care if your young, old....it's time to put the memories in limbo and start a brand new life. A better one. I just can't imagine where all that crud went to. Ewwww. Gross.

[nottellin1]

Y'all need to look up the definition of neocon.

[proudla]

We have been in our house since September. FEMA was knocking on our door telling us they wanted the trailer back and fortunately we found contractors locally who helped us acheive that. In our parish, they wanted us out of the trailers and are trying to help people move on with their lives. New Orleans, other LA gulf regions and the Mississippi Gulf Coast are a totally different story.

Thanks to all of you who are praying for us and have helped us.

[rushman71]

Infidel_US: those 2 guys are busy trying to find someone make another racial slur.

[phoenix1218]

I lived in a house that was over 50% damaged...lived...gutted home...Thanksgiving Day...FEMA trailer didn't arrive until that day...put yourself in our shoes... Unless you have lived it, YOU have no right to judge us...elderly people...living in tents and have died due to this massive hurricane. You have to stay somewhere to put your lives together or to finish your business to move on. People do not want to take us in and the ones who have are complaining about it, so we choose to live in whatever. Most of the towns we live are GONE!!!! Where do you want us to live? God bless the volunteers...take a trip down here and then maybe your eyes will awaken to the horror which has been our lives.Posted by proudla

Proudla,
I am sorry you have gone through what you have. You and your family I can understand still being in a trailer (or whwerever you have been staying) because you own property there and have had to wait for the insurance company. I have been in your shoes. Not for the same exact reasons but my house burned down when I was 8 yrs. old and lived in a trailer myself for a short time. What people have been trying to say though is eventually it ceases to be anyone elses fault but their own that they are still living in trailers because people need to get some help initially but they need to take initiative as well to make their lives better. And I agre with you, God bless the volunteers. People moved there knowing it is a possibility and should prepare themselves for it.

[infidel_us]

Obviously a conspiracy by Bush/Chaney/Halliburtin to observe the long term effects of trailer life in order to eliminate the "trailer trash" contingent of the democrat party!

Where's Jackson & Sharpton when you need them?!?!?!!?

[proudla]

To all the people who think we should be out of FEMA trailers and shouldn't complain about them.

I lived in a house that was over 50% damaged. We lived in our gutted home from the end of September until Thanksgiving Day. The reason being the FEMA trailer didn't arrive until that day. Please, put yourself in our shoes for a change. Unless you have lived it, YOU have no right to judge us. They have elderly people who are living in tents and have died due to this massive hurricane. You have to stay somewhere to put your lives together or to finish your business to move on. People do not want to take us in and the ones who have are complaining about it, so we choose to live in whatever.

Most of the towns we live are GONE!!!! Where do you want us to live? God bless the volunteers who are living in churches in the regional areas and sleeping on cots. Why don't you guys take a trip down here and then maybe your eyes will awaken to the horror which has been our lives.

[sunshie25]

my bad, tucanofulano, sorry to mess up your name....

[sunshie25]

Are you kidding, tulanofulano? You should work for the government, using one story to fuel another.....

[tucano2]

It seems obvious the FEMA trailers are made of the same poisonous chemicals used to make the so-called mobile school rooms Americans children are forced to use instead of safer regular schoolbuildings due the overcrowding resulting from millions and millions of Illegal Aliens sucking the school monies out of every school district's budgets. At least part of the solution is to deport those criminal invaders immediately.

[marcodele]

P.S. to dragonmouse: The "deferred" credit payments you cite were for 3 months with creditors and 6 months with mortgage lenders. After that time, the ENTIRE past due balance was due, and all the so called "deferred" payments were placed on Credit Bureau records as "past due."

Welcome to reality. Again, hopefully someday you'll be capable of understanding that bad things happen to good people - it doesn't mean they are evil liberals sucking off the government teet. In fact, they are victims of the government as much as a natural disaster.

[marcodele]

dragonmouse:

When you lose all your possessions, all your savings, all your clothes, furniture, roof, and you still have to make a mortgage payment on a slab while fighting your insurance company for coverage you were paying for; when you have to pull your kids out of school or college; when you have to pay triple price for home renovation repairs while assistance programs keep denying you aid based on errors; when your President never makes good on the promises he made to help you, but shows up occasionally to be photographed with a black family; when your job is in danger of moving because the population hasn't come back; when you have to pay quadruple price for furniture and clothing; well my friend, that's when living in a FEMA trailer for two years becomes a necessity, not a government handout.

Hopefully it will all happen to you someday - that's the only way neocons can understand things - if it flies right up their butts.

[strefo-2009]

First, I should apologize for not saying this in my first post...God Bless those that lived through Katrina and those who didn't make it rest in peace.

Second, thanks for the well thought out response, nolalou. I appreciate educated debate and comment. I agree the Federal government should have had certain safeguards in place for the levees. I don't know at what point the safeguards wouldn't have made any difference anyway. Unfortunately, sometimes these things just happen no matter the preparation.

I absolutely believe the people affected should be helped. I wonder when it stops being labelled "help" and starts being a "handout". Everyone I know has struggled and sacrificed to have what they do and be where they are. I don't know anyone who hasn't said when X happens I will do Y. I suspect this is the case in a lot of FEMA trailers. It is unfortunate that this happened to you and your neighbors. My message (to those still in the trailers) is stop waiting for X to happen and, if necessary, really do what ever to get out of this ongoing, harmful situation before it is too late. Peace to all in the process it takes to take the next step.

[tronix7787]

I feel sorry for these people who have to live in these conditions. I was praying that by now things would be back to normal. It's been two years now and most houses can be built back up within months. I just can't understand the delays these poor people are going through.

Mark Geuy

[dinocards42]

This person lives in Mississippi. There could be other causes for the problem. Like mold from the high humitdy there, poor cleaning etc. Don't blame the trailers only. But they should be out of them by now, if just into housing somewhere. I thought there was a limit of time you can live in a fema trailer.

[jdubs63]

I really feel for the children and the elderly. Education is needed as how tomove on and recovery in our life.And what are we all doing about this?Educate educate.