MedicPrincess
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I am sorry. But I have just about had enough! All day long I sit in the emergency room and listen to story after story after story from evacuees. They tell me about how they lost their mother, their dog, their homes, everything that ever mattered to them. Then I go home and watch it on the news and listen to the people blame the president, FEMA, the governor, the mayor because they refused to help them after the storm.
What I want to know is at what point are these people going take some personal responsiblity for the conditions they are currently suffering? There are thousands of people still in their homes. They complain they were to poor to evacuate. They complain they cannot afford to go to a hotel. They complain nobody will help them, the city is a hellhole, and on and on and on.
But lets rewind a few days. For 3 days before the storm, the police cheif and governor were BEGGING people to leave the city or go to a shelter. They CHOSE to stay in their homes. They offered free transportation to a shelter, and yet people chose to stay in their home. After the storm when resuces began, people would come to their home and people would refuse to leave. Carnival Cruise lines made available 3 cruise ships to house the evacuees, they still refused to go. Now they are being ordered out due to the public health threat there now. And YET they STILL REFUSE to go. That is their right. To stay in their home. But I am entirely sick and tired of the thousands who are refusing to do anything to help themselves whining and complaining and moaning that the President won't help them. Gimme a friggin break!! Stand up, and take some responsibility for your actions.
I am not saying they deserved to have a Hurricane or a Flood. I am saying they need to stop blaming the President for not saving them AFTER the storm when they refused and still to this day refuse to help themselves!
Also, please understand, I entirely sympathise with everyone that has lost their homes and all their worldly possesions. I am living in my mothers garage with a 7 year old boy after I lost my home in Hurricane Dennis. But its a matter of helping yourself and not requiring it all be given to you.
I had a man at my desk going on and on about how it was the Presidents fault and the Mayors fault his mom and aunt are missing. When I asked him why they didn't evacuate, he said "Oh they didn't want to." UMM..how is it anybodys fault but their OWN, when they had ample warning that a storm was coming!! It didn't even hit here, but as soon as it entered the gulf our area was boarding up windows and making plans to get out.
Ok...I think I am done here. I have more evacuees and locals sitting in the lobby.
I am sure many of you will be cursing me out now. But, you know, keep in mind, I didn't even express my opinion on the mayor of NOLA allowing his fleet of busses to become flooded instead of using them to evacuate neighborhoods or moving them to higher ground.
What I want to know is at what point are these people going take some personal responsiblity for the conditions they are currently suffering? There are thousands of people still in their homes. They complain they were to poor to evacuate. They complain they cannot afford to go to a hotel. They complain nobody will help them, the city is a hellhole, and on and on and on.
But lets rewind a few days. For 3 days before the storm, the police cheif and governor were BEGGING people to leave the city or go to a shelter. They CHOSE to stay in their homes. They offered free transportation to a shelter, and yet people chose to stay in their home. After the storm when resuces began, people would come to their home and people would refuse to leave. Carnival Cruise lines made available 3 cruise ships to house the evacuees, they still refused to go. Now they are being ordered out due to the public health threat there now. And YET they STILL REFUSE to go. That is their right. To stay in their home. But I am entirely sick and tired of the thousands who are refusing to do anything to help themselves whining and complaining and moaning that the President won't help them. Gimme a friggin break!! Stand up, and take some responsibility for your actions.
I am not saying they deserved to have a Hurricane or a Flood. I am saying they need to stop blaming the President for not saving them AFTER the storm when they refused and still to this day refuse to help themselves!
Also, please understand, I entirely sympathise with everyone that has lost their homes and all their worldly possesions. I am living in my mothers garage with a 7 year old boy after I lost my home in Hurricane Dennis. But its a matter of helping yourself and not requiring it all be given to you.
I had a man at my desk going on and on about how it was the Presidents fault and the Mayors fault his mom and aunt are missing. When I asked him why they didn't evacuate, he said "Oh they didn't want to." UMM..how is it anybodys fault but their OWN, when they had ample warning that a storm was coming!! It didn't even hit here, but as soon as it entered the gulf our area was boarding up windows and making plans to get out.
Ok...I think I am done here. I have more evacuees and locals sitting in the lobby.
I am sure many of you will be cursing me out now. But, you know, keep in mind, I didn't even express my opinion on the mayor of NOLA allowing his fleet of busses to become flooded instead of using them to evacuate neighborhoods or moving them to higher ground.
