Comments on: CDC Suppressed Toxic Trailer Warnings

CBS News: Agency Suppressed Repeated Warnings From Top Scientist About Formaldehyde Fume Dangers

[toady2222]

So FEMA is the bad guy for trying to help?? Ask those folks when they were in the SuperDome if they would rather have stayed there. The truth is campers as well as mobile homes have been made the same way for DECADES. Where was Congress when poor folks who could only afford this type of housing were living in them for years?? Or when families were buying campers and taking vacations for weeks on end?? But Congress must justify their existence, so they beat up FEMA who was only trying to help. Did they have a better idea at the time. I think not, but hindsight is 20/20. The taxpayers might as well go ahead and sign a blank check and forward it to the law offices of James Sokolov!! If Congress really wants to get to the root of a problem (imagine that!) they should chat with the manufacturers of the wallboard; perhaps some controls need to be explored there. Lots to be learned from this tragedy, but this direction is not a positive, practical, or fair one.

[mcvet]

You need a place to stay until the shock wears off and then you get your a-s-s moving. Things may never get put back together there. The problem is that there are a lot of lazy people who are just sitting there and are not even trying. They have a roof over their heads and that is all they care about.

If they had have evacuated like they were supposed to then they would now be in another city where they could get better jobs.

Even if I didn''''t have any money or transportation, if I was told to evacuate, I would have walked out if I had to.






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Posted by erasmus6 at 01:23 PM : Jan 29, 2008
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Yeah yeah we know... You Neocon''s know it all don''t you? You haven''t the foggest idea what these people went through or are going through. You''re nothing more that a Bush bootlicker attempting to direct attention away from the REAL issue. Since when does YOUR opinion of the folks who had to use the trailers justify what the CDC and that Piece of Human Trash you call a President did here. There''s a reason We put these laws in place, there''s a reason we put these agencies in place and it was NOT for Bush and the Gestapo to decide what we do or do not hear!! Sieg Heil Bush!!

[erasmus6]

"You need a place to stay for a long time, until things get put back together again." posted by crescentrose

You need a place to stay until the shock wears off and then you get your a-s-s moving. Things may never get put back together there. The problem is that there are a lot of lazy people who are just sitting there and are not even trying. They have a roof over their heads and that is all they care about.

If they had have evacuated like they were supposed to then they would now be in another city where they could get better jobs.

Even if I didn''t have any money or transportation, if I was told to evacuate, I would have walked out if I had to.

[erasmus6]

"For some reason you Bush Cultist..." posted by skyk

I am not an American.


"Perhaps the fact that there no jobs to get that pay enough for them to move out?" posted by brianbwb

Then perhaps it is time for them to move somewhere else where they can get a better job. Ain''t going to get a better job sitting there.

[crescentrose]

My sister had a FEMA trailer. We visited once and when we went in our eyes immediately began to burn. My son has mild asthma and allergies that rarely flare up, but we had to get him out of that trailer.

People don''t know how bad some of these trailers were. I pray people making these ugly comments never have the situation where their whole metro area (2 million people) is put out of commission due to a natural disaster.

When the scale is that large, it''s not just a matter of camping out. You need food, water, work. You need a place to stay for a long time, until things get put back together again.

I am saddened by the lack of compassion I see in America today.

[batgrrly]

When I first read this, I remembred when my partner and I were looking into modular homes for the property. Every one we looked at, had very big warning signs of Formaldehyde. After seeing this several times, it was one of the factors in not going this route.

That was some years before Katrina. So if the modular home business already was doing this, FEMA should have known too! Putting people in a confined space with good sealants, such as some of the Rfactors for the newer trailers are, means you are trapped in a toxic cloud.

The use of Formaldehyde in home building should be outlawed in this country, and in the world.The government should be leading the was to better emergency response with greened safer temporary shelters.

My tax dollars are being used to make people very ill who in turn become very sick and the state ends up picking up the hospital tabs. If a fraction of that money were spent on safer temp housing in the first place, it would cost less to recover from disasters like this. Well, not to mention people not getting sick and not feeling well, but money seems to be the only thing FEMA cares about.

[batgrrly]

When I first read this, I remembred when my partner and I were looking into modular homes for the property. Every one we looked at, had very big warning signs of Formaldehyde. After seeing this several times, it was one of the factors in not going this route.

That was some years before Katrina. So if the modular home business already was doing this, FEMA should have known too! Putting people in a confined space with good sealants, such as some of the Rfactors for the newer trailers are, means you are trapped in a toxic cloud.

The use of Formaldehyde in home building should be outlawed in this country, and in the world.The government should be leading the was to better emergency response with greened safer temporary shelters.

My tax dollars are being used to make people very ill who in turn become very sick and the state ends up picking up the hospital tabs. If a fraction of that money were spent on safer temp housing in the first place, it would cost less to recover from disasters like this. Well, not to mention people not getting sick and not feeling well, but money seems to be the only thing FEMA cares about.

[batgrrly]

When I first read this, I remembred when my partner and I were looking into modular homes for the property. Every one we looked at, had very big warning signs of Formaldehyde. After seeing this several times, it was one of the factors in not going this route.

That was some years before Katrina. So if the modular home business already was doing this, FEMA should have known too! Putting people in a confined space with good sealants, such as some of the Rfactors for the newer trailers are, means you are trapped in a toxic cloud.

The use of Formaldehyde in home building should be outlawed in this country, and in the world.The government should be leading the was to better emergency response with greened safer temporary shelters.

My tax dollars are being used to make people very ill who in turn become very sick and the state ends up picking up the hospital tabs. If a fraction of that money were spent on safer temp housing in the first place, it would cost less to recover from disasters like this. Well, not to mention people not getting sick and not feeling well, but money seems to be the only thing FEMA cares about.

[batgrrly]

When I first read this, I rememebred when my partner and I were looking into modular homes for the property. Every one we looked at, had very big warning signs of Formaldehyde. After seeing this several times, it was one of the factors in not going this route.

That was some years before Katrina. So if the modular home business already was doing this, FEMA should have known too! Putting people in a confined space with good sealants, such as some of the Rfactors for the newer trailers are, means you are trapped in a toxic cloud.

The use of Formaldehyde in home building should be outlawed in this country, and in the world.The government should be leading the was to better emergency response with greened safer temporary shelters.

My tax dollars are being used to make people very ill who in turn become very sick and the state ends up picking up the hospital tabs. If a fraction of that money were spent on safer temp housing in the first place, it would cost less to recover from disasters like this. Well, not to mention people not getting sick and not feeling well, but money seems to be the only thing FEMA cares about.

[batgrrly]

When I first read this, I rememebred when my partner and I were looking into modular homes for the property. Every one we looked at, had very big warning signs of Formaldehyde. After seeing this several times, it was one of the factors in not going this route.

That was some years before Katrina. So if the modular home business already was doing this, FEMA should have known too! Putting people in a confined space with good sealants, such as some of the Rfactors for the newer trailers are, means you are trapped in a toxic cloud.

The use of Formaldehyde in home building should be outlawed in this country, and in the world.The government should be leading the was to better emergency response with greened safer temporary shelters.

My tax dollars are being used to make people very ill who in turn become very sick and the state ends up picking up the hospital tabs. If a fraction of that money were spent on safer temp housing in the first place, it would cost less to recover from disasters like this. Well, not to mention people not getting sick and not feeling well, but money seems to be the only thing FEMA cares about.