victimize victims of Katrina. There's so much waste and fraud to go around in every single spending bill in congress it makes me want to fucking puke. Just remember the "bridge to nowhere." That was supposed to cost roughly a seventh of the TOTAL amount of Katrina "fraud." This is what makes me so fucking angry. Read more about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_BridgeIt was a pork provision for that Republican idiot from Alaska named Stevens. The only difference is that most of that wasted tax-payer money would have gone into the bank-account of a hooked-up and connected friend to the Republican elite, so it would have been okay and justifiable then.
Remember, better to help a good old-fashioned American "businessman" rake in the dough off the tax-payer's backs then give it to the "criminals and degenerates" from the New Orleans area!! :sarcasm:
Of course they deserve it, you have to work for a living in this country, yes sir goddammit! You have to be a hard-working, red-meat eating good old-fashioned American white male who believes in family values, yessiree you do!! And amen to that!! Not some cotton-pickin' good-for-nothing nigger or white trash. Kick the Mexicans out and let them pick my goddammed grapes and tomatoes!! :sarcasm:
Considering the total hell and bullshit they had to endure and go through, and I mean the total, complete destruction and devestation of their city, homes, jobs, livelihoods, friends, families, way of life, culture, and everything, I think a little pork and "fraud" here and there may have actually have been good to help allieviate some of their pain and hopelessness. That's the least we could have done for these poor people.
Can you imagine if New York were the city instead of New Orleans and how many rich white assholes would lose everything. A little extra money for a bottle of bourbon or gin never hurt anybody who's had to endure the hell that these poor people had to go through. They were poor by-and-large to begin with and the hurricane merely exasperated this condition.
Just when you criticize this so-called waste imagine if a natural disaster uprooted you and your entire family and neighborhood and friends from your city and you were forced to move a state or even further away to live with relatives and/or friends. Imagine your job being gone. Your house, everything, gone. That's the hell of what these people went through and so many people have sadly already forgotten that.