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CBS News Obtains Emails Indicating Agency Prohibits Its Own Staff From Entering Toxic Trailers
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- mitchoncbs
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- well seventeen years ago I bought a double-wide manufactured home, that was loaded with formaldahyde and I did not know it, first I start coughing and could not control it, but now I am still alive, well, and still live in the same home, so quit griping and get a job and move some place else, if you are not happy with what you got for FREE... AND still have for free.
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- By the way Katie Couric, why is it the government''s job to move these people out to somewhere else? I guess you think we should build each of these families a brand new $100,000 home in a nice location, completely furnish it, stock it with food, give them new cars, pay them welfare, and put their kids through college. All the while, we have to listen to them gripe and complain as they sit on their lazy butts and watch soap operas, (or porn on their new government funded computers) that they are being mistreated because they came from minority neighborhoods. It''s so sad because there really are a few people in the group that are trying hard to take care of themselves. I have been to visit in these trailer parks and mostly they are just small relocated versions of the neighborhoods that these people lived in before Katrina. The drugs, fighting, cheating, abuse, robbery etc.. that were in their neighborhoods before, are there again. Only now the government is paying for even MORE of that lifestyle than they did before!
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- made with formaldehyde
Posted by jonesforch
Just to name a few (wonder on may of these people use these products) Cigarettes,Soap,Perfume,some seeds and roots of plants to produce more,Postage Stamps...I could go on and on...so I would guess most of us posting including the writer of this story has and still does use one or all these things in everyday life. - Reply to this comment
- The bottom line here is that the journalists have to dig out every possible shred of a story to stay in business. I think we have too many reporters and not enough stories to go around!
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- OK You folks just need to quit. There is no conspiracy here. There are no hidden agendas. This story is not the X-Files or something. Basically all mobile homes have the same problem with irritating fumes when they are newly built. You expect low prices, but expect the most expensive materials to be used. You want to save the trees, but want to use new virgin wood in everything. There is a price to be paid for everything. You want to live in a home much nicer than the one you had before, but don''t want to pay for it. Who should pay for it? Me, that''s who!. You want my taxes to pay for you to live somewhere for free while you gripe and complain about the free place. STOP LOOKING A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH!!!
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- I would''t move if I had free housing but I would''t *** cause that is all I got. Research google and see how many things in this world are being made with formaldehyde Spend time researching CBS then reprint the story the right way.
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- Hmmm? I am surprised this Administration hasnt sent some of those trailers to our servicemen in Iraq to live in yet. ***! I hope I didnt give them any Ideas...
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- shouldn''''t they have saved up enough money to buy a house outright by now? Or is it a case of, "It''''s free housing so I''''m going to stay here as long as I can until they throw me out."
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Posted by hungry1968 at 08:12 AM : Nov 08, 2007
I use to agree with somethings you say here until I did research on the situation. I have found their are hardly any jobs that would pay enough there to support buying a house. The rent is astronimically high and most people cannot afford to move because the jobs that are there dont pay enough for housing. Now, what I cant understand is this: IF the situation is that bad, why cant they find family members and just leave N.O. I know it is hard leaving the city you loved so well, but there comes a time when a person has to do what is best. I had relatives that moved in with me from what of thoses trailers and are now relocated here and doing much better then they would have in N.O. It is painful for them to give up the city they loved so well, and maybe when things get better they will move back. - Reply to this comment
- With their love of the corporate world and distaste for the poor, I wouldn''t be entirely shocked to find out that this Administration orders FEMA to give all those sick children toys to generate positive PR.
Specifically, Aquabeads.
They''d accomplish two goals in the Republican creedo at once: Provide government support for a corporation, and get some disturbing pictures of sick, impoverished and underprivileged children off the MSM.
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