am I the only person on this message board that doesn't resent poor people?


...black people?




....people that aren't white and rich?

6/6/2006 4:28:40 PM

Bitch, i'm not rich. i think people need to work.

i make UNDER 30K a year, but I fucking work for it. all they gotta do it work, not EXPECT people to help them. but they do. a lot think they are above low level jobs. rather get handouts...

[Edited on June 6, 2006 at 4:31 PM. Reason : .]

6/6/2006 4:30:10 PM

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"Finally the north begins to understand...."

6/6/2006 4:33:26 PM

and let's be sure to lump all Katrina victims in with this one isolated case. They're all exactly like this man.

6/6/2006 4:51:59 PM

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"anyway...i'm still right so suck it. "

i really hope you are joking w/ this point of view
no one that went through college to the point of graduating can not be this dumb

6/6/2006 5:06:16 PM

people like thata shouldnt get any money during a disaster.they are living off government money to begin with

6/6/2006 5:12:24 PM

this guy is a lowlife...

i am curious about a couple of things:

- how did he end up in New Orleans? was he born there or did he move there?
- does he have family outside of New Orleans?
- i wonder how far back he can trace his roots?
- how many of the Katrina victims have their entire traceable bloodline to N.O./Louisiana area?

i know if i had to evacuate the Raleighwood area for some reason, i would have family to go to in various parts of the country. and if all hell broke lose, i have family on 6 of the 7 continents. we're a very spread out yet tight knit type of people.

i've always wondered how many people affected by this had no family to turn to outside of the area.

6/6/2006 5:13:24 PM

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"drug problems are very real, folks. Why hasn't fema offered to give him rehab?"

Nowhere in the write-up does it say he's on drugs still...he won't even work to make money for drugs! And fema does not deal with that. Drug problems are not a Federal Emergency...

6/6/2006 5:43:18 PM

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"am I the only person on this message board that doesn't resent poor people? ...black people? ....people that aren't white and rich?"

Probably not, but it seems to make you feel better to think that such is the case.

6/6/2006 6:48:26 PM

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"all I'm saying is that this guy has spent 9 K in how many months? ............is it REALLY that surprising? How long does it take you to spend 9K? just wondering. isn't poverty level around 12-14K? "

I stopped reading after this but I think the 12-14K for poverty also assumes your are paying for a place to stay, water, sewer, trash, heating/AC, and all those other things. This guy is just scum

6/6/2006 6:54:21 PM

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"drug problems are very real, folks. Why hasn't fema offered to give him rehab?"

Because its not the fed govts GODDAMNED JOB to fix every motherfucking problem every motherfucking american has.

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"am I the only person on this message board that doesn't resent poor people? ...black people? ....people that aren't white and rich?"

I resent lazy ass motherfuckers be they white, black, yellow, green, purple or any other color in the spectrum that wont at least try to find a job of some description or try to better themselves. I resent ANYONE that is content to live off of handouts.

6/7/2006 1:41:37 AM

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"Proof that giving people everything they could ever want without requiring something in return is detrimental to learning self-sufficiency. Seems like they reinforced this guy's preexisting dependency. Why can't they require people in this situation to go out and sweep the streets or something? Do something, anything to earn their keep. "

How is this proof of anything? This is at best 4 guys out of at least 300 taking advantage of something. Why doesn't someone do an article on the hundreds of other people that picked them selves back up WITH the help of other people?

Take your heads out of your tunnels asses.

6/7/2006 6:20:33 AM

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"Proof that giving people everything they could ever want without requiring something in return..."

^The "requiring something in return" in this case is "get a job and move on with your life" as 296 people in your scenario seemed to do just fine. For the people that seem content to just mooch - start giving the hotel they are staying at the $9K to hire the guy to clean rooms - make them work for it.

I don't see how giving someone money for months on end helps anyone when they have proved that they aren't going to use money that is earmarked to help people rebuild their lives to actually, you know, rebuild their lives.

At the very least this guy should be applying for welfare, not hitting FEMA up for more money.

6/7/2006 7:26:11 AM

ahahahahahahaha this guy rules

6/7/2006 8:09:29 AM

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"“I spent my money just the way I wanted, and I think [fema] should send me some more,”"

that, ladies and gents, is what is wrong with most of the poor and homeless in america

6/7/2006 3:13:06 PM

Shit, my husband and I are struggling as it is trying to save up money to put a down payment on a house--I wish I had that guy's problem, leeching from the American taxpayers so I could lay about and smoke weed and wank to Halle Berry movies in between getting up in people's faces and saying "YO MAN, CAN YOU HELP ME OUT WITH A BEER?! I AIN'T GOT NO MONEY AND MY WIFE'S SICK MAN, C'MON AND HELP A BROTHER OUT MAN".

Oh wait, no I don't--I'd much rather WORK for a living and try to IMPROVE MY LOT IN LIFE.

Wow, what a concept. It's laziness is what it is--it's not blackness or whiteness or anything. It's just plain laziness and an unwillingness to accept anything other than a handout so he can continue to be a shiftless bum.

6/7/2006 4:06:04 PM

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"am I the only person on this message board that doesn't resent poor people? ...black people? ....people that aren't white and rich?"

So having the same expectations of someone that is different than you is the same as resenting them?

6/7/2006 4:10:22 PM

has anybody else noticed that this article seems like a satire? at the very least it's bad journalism

6/7/2006 4:16:43 PM

people please. cut Theon Johnson some slack. he probably has a degree in mass communications

6/7/2006 4:17:39 PM

I just want to know why it is racist to not have lower expectations for black people.

6/7/2006 4:33:10 PM

1 with the win

>.<

6/7/2006 4:34:54 PM

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"am I the only person on this message board that doesn't resent poor people? ...black people? ....people that aren't white and rich?"

you assume people resent these groups just because they arent pussy ass apologists

6/7/2006 4:41:55 PM

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"fema sent him $9,000 in housing aid, but he spent it all on booze, cigarettes, some clothes, and food—partying, mostly."

6/7/2006 5:29:19 PM

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"I just want to know why it is racist to not have lower expectations for black people."

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"fema sent him $9,000 in housing aid, but he spent it all on booze, cigarettes, some clothes, and food—partying, mostly."

6/8/2006 7:05:02 PM

$9000 in 9 months without any bills is a lot of money. He must have really been living it up in order to waste that much money.

DJ Lauren you're absurd. The government shouldn't have to pay out a ton of money to help people like him who just waste it away. There's a difference between a single mom of 4 that didn't get sex education and a moron that is just mooching off the government and making no attempt to better his life. He's fully aware of what he's doing so stop trying to defend him.

6/8/2006 10:30:02 PM

I mean I'm not racist in any sense

but

what a nigger

6/8/2006 10:44:35 PM

It's 9-fucking-thousand dollars. That is not spare change. If you think about it, it's a lot of money to give to just one person. Imagine what FEMA could've done with it instead of giving it to this bastard. That money could've supported a whole family for a while

6/8/2006 10:50:10 PM

I don't even make $9000 in a year. I barely make that amount in two years.

I'm typically the type of person who would gladly give him the money in the first place. But if he squandered it, I wouldn't give him another cent. He dug his own hole.

6/8/2006 10:52:29 PM

wow...

i have lost all faith in humanity...



not so much because of the fucking retarded black guy (who would actually be more useful to the world dead)



But because of someone's supporting his actions...

[Edited on June 8, 2006 at 11:44 PM. Reason : or lack thereof]

6/8/2006 11:43:05 PM

its just one guy, remember that,
he's probably some homeless guy who has no intention of getting a job or doing anything produtive
but they should've stopped supporting him long ago

6/8/2006 11:57:40 PM

you can't help people who dont want to help themselves.

seriously. they're just riding the handout bus as long as they can.

i'm sorry but he could have bought himself some nice clothes and found himself a job and paid rent in an apartment for that 9K. (not rent in NYC mind you but most places). he could have been making minimum wage at the very least and keeping some of that money in the bank to support himself.
he could have turned the situation around with this financial help from fema and made a better life for himself.

lazy ungrateful ******.
waste of money. that 9k could have been spent on more gratful people or causes

6/9/2006 12:00:04 AM

Turn off his power. Cut the cable. Turn off the water. And let brazillian man-eating fire ants into his room under his door.

See if that doesn't put some pep in his step.

6/9/2006 7:27:47 AM

He is still in NY city, because New Orleans doesnt want him back. They got enough problems.

6/10/2006 1:15:38 PM

This is terrible.

This guy thinks money grows on trees and has no self-respect or respect for anyone else.

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"He’s been broke for over a month now. fema sent him $9,000 in housing aid, but he spent it all on booze, cigarettes, some clothes, and food—partying, mostly. “I spent my money just the way I wanted, and I think [fema] should send me some more,” he says."

Its about being a responsible human being. Granted this guy's situation sucks being a poor guy in New Orleans and being displaced for several months. But the government gave him a place to live and a stipend. Its not a lot, but its livable. Instead he chose to live irresponsibly and he should not be "rewarded" for being irresponible by getting more handouts. Enough is enough.

What about all these immigrants who come from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America with absolutely nothing? These people find means to attain a livable wage- with very little assistance.

[Edited on June 10, 2006 at 3:22 PM. Reason : >]

6/10/2006 3:21:01 PM

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"start giving the hotel they are staying at the $9K to hire the guy to clean rooms - make them work for it"

thats what I want.... a bunch of homeless people rummaging thru my hotel room when I am not there

[Edited on June 10, 2006 at 6:03 PM. Reason : .]

6/10/2006 6:03:37 PM

dont give out money-press kills you

give out too much=press kills you

no win situation

[Edited on June 11, 2006 at 12:47 AM. Reason : w]

6/11/2006 12:45:02 AM

this guy is a bum plain and simple, he was probably a bum before the hurricane hit and hell be a bum after Jesus returns

6/11/2006 1:15:44 AM

he was probably a Pimp from the 9th ward, living in some run down shack.

6/11/2006 1:20:02 AM

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"And people weren't in the wrong place at the wrong time down there, they were told to evacuate. They knew the severity of Katrina before it even hit. Everyone in NO knows they're below sea level, highly prone to flooding, and chose to live there anyway-so that's just tough."

you dumb, uneducated smut

the severity of Katrina wasn't the problem, the fact that the levees broke was the problem

evacuations were made voluntary on Saturday night (which is when I left, because I took US 90 out of there and didn't want to deal with the inevitable spike in traffic). They were made mandatory sometime Sunday, with the storm hitting not very long thereafter. It wasn't until Tuesday that the levees broke and shit REALLY hit the fan.

6/11/2006 2:22:57 AM

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"the severity of Katrina wasn't the problem, the fact that the levees broke was the problem"

I agree and disagree with this. You have a massive fucking storm coming your way in a city below sea level. Bad things are going to happen. Katrina was a Cat 5 at one point before slamming Louisiana/Mississippi. Common sense tells you to get the hell out of Dodge. People here in Florida evacuated before Katrina hit (and the countless storms that hit the Gulf in 2004), even as Cat 1-2 storms. However- the State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans were asleep at the wheel. Poor evacuation planning and lack of preparation. You would think that Louisiana, being a hurricane-prone state (like Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, etc). would have a better plan. Especially when you have a major city that is sinking.

Katrina debaucle was as bad as it gets. The Federal government screwed up badly. But it seems to me that the public has completely exonerated the state government and the City of New Orleans- when in fact, they contributed just as much to the problem. Gov. Kathleen Blanco and Ray Nagin can instead be seen grandstanding on TV, working on re-elections. If anything, the Katrina mess should have exposed to the country how incompetent and backwards-ass the governments there really are.

[Edited on June 11, 2006 at 3:29 AM. Reason : h]

6/11/2006 3:26:59 AM

all of New Orleans is black, and all black people are lazy negros.

finally the North begins to understand that the good jesus lovin white gals like marilynlov7 like black men to fuck her in the ass.

6/11/2006 3:33:32 AM

^^ The city's been hit pretty badly by storms before - ask any New Orlenian of the 40s, 50s, or 60s about Betsy and Camille. I'll agree, more people should have been pro-active and not reactive, but we've had so many RECENT scares (Andrew, Georges, Hugo, Dennis, others) that either went elsewhere or died in the Gulf that very few thought that this would be IT. I can toss you stories of family and friends who either stayed during the storm or have since returned from it, just to give a bit of firsthand insight on the varying degrees of opinion regarding it all.

I don't intend to turn this into pandering and chest-beating, it's just simply my willingness to bring more to the table than CNN or any other media outlet can share.

6/11/2006 4:26:42 AM

There's no fucking slant in this article because there's nothing to slant. The guy admits he blew all his money and that he wants more. Unless they are putting words in his mouth, anyone who defends this sack of shit is just as bad if not worse for not knowing better.

Oh yeah, FEMA gets its money from Joe Taxpayer--you know, those taxes they take out of your paycheck that pays you for the WORK YOU DID AT YOUR JOB?

6/11/2006 11:14:37 PM

did dj lauren give up
i hope so

6/11/2006 11:17:31 PM

I wish somebody would give me 9 thousand dolla to get myself out of the hole I'm in. That would go a long way toward getting rid of my debts.

6/12/2006 12:17:15 AM

fucking shit

I read dj laurens posts on the previous page, which reinforces my belief that liberals are the folks that are fueling America's downward spiral.

And 9000 would be so great to be able to pay back my 50 g's worth of college education loans

but this guy spends it on partying

[Edited on June 12, 2006 at 3:49 AM. Reason : adfa]

6/12/2006 3:46:00 AM

This guy is the fucking man. Actually, he seems depressed and disaffected, with the two combining to yield a man who just doesn't give a fuck.

I think most of the people vilifying this man all have homes, families, and friends, things that they care about. It's not clear that Theon Johnson has any of those things. If you had nothing important in your life, nothing to live for, and you felt that you would never have anything, what would you be motivated by? Would you give two shits if somebody thought you were a bum, which you would probably agree to be true about yourself? How important would society (and your role in it) be to you? Can you even begin to imagine that despair?

FEMA GAVE the money to him, and he spent it as he pleased, and he'll soon face the consequences for his "choice": a rumbling tummy, homelessness, poor health, etc...don't act like this man is getting a free pass through all of life's difficulties or getting off scot free. He legally took advantage of the government and society; corporations do it all the time and at much higher gains.

Anyway, I guess what I'm getting at is this: while many of us would appreciate the chance to relax and do only what we felt like doing for a few months, none of us would ever actually want to be Theon Johnson. Think about it.

6/12/2006 5:35:45 AM

Q: If you had nothing important in your life, nothing to live for, and you felt that you would never have anything, what would you be motivated by?

A: a rumbling tummy, homelessness, poor health, etc.

It's sad that this guy was given the opportunity but decided to not take advantage of it. What about everyone else that found themselves in Theon Johnson's position but managed to pull themselves out of the rut? You act like it can't be done. Granted it isn't easy, but it sure would be worth it.

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"Anyway, I guess what I'm getting at is this: while many of us would appreciate the chance to relax and do only what we felt like doing for a few months, none of us would ever actually want to be Theon Johnson."

Very true, but then again this is why so many of us make an attempt to work to support ourselves. We don't want to be Theon Johnson. I think many people that see a problem with this aren't uptight because they wish they could be the one living it up on a free 9 month ride. I think they are uptight because they feel like they have involuntarily paid the way for someone else to be able to do it.

[Edited on June 12, 2006 at 7:56 AM. Reason : /]]

6/12/2006 7:56:22 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/14/fema.audit/index.html

6/14/2006 1:44:33 PM

how about this crap of them evacuating people from Florda for that weak TS.

6/14/2006 10:09:14 PM