Thread: Are we sue happy in America?

This kinda of stuff happens to people who's mentality is PARTY, PARTY, PARTY. why would it be any different for a State or City, who's mentaility is PARTY, PARTY, PARTY.

What about responsibility? And I agree, I dont like that damn mayor of theirs. He did SHIT for his people, but he sure got shit loads of AIR time... Bet he runs for President soon.

It's the old saying, "any publicity is good publicity", and that guys takes the cake.

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How about this: We sue them back. We sue the greedy little bastards for gross misuse of recovery money, loss of income due to the fact that many people volunteered to leave their jobs and go help them out and we wasted countless hours watching news reports on what was going on down there, mental distress (I'm sure many people who had to watch them were somewhat distressed), loss of property due to the looting that occurred after the storm, and the list goes on and on and on. The fact is you can't control the weather. But our government did give them fair warning. This isn't back like 200 years ago where one day the weather is perfect and the next it sucks ass like never before: they had at least a week's warning. If you live below sea level in a place that is just waiting to get hit by a hurricane, and it comes, you are warned, and you don't leave when you are given the opportunity that is your own fault. And the argument that they couldn't leave because they were poor just doesn't fly. Both the city of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana were given the opportunity to evacuate people. Amtrack even went so far as to give the city the opportunity to evacuate every single person in the whole city by train to a safe place. Guess what? The city said that they weren't interested. The federal government asked the governor of Louisiana if they wanted help prior to the storm. She told them to stay out of it. After the storm hit, people were even shooting at rescue helicopters. There is a major problem when the pilots of rescue helicopters have to fly armed in their own country. And it is even worse when large numbers of police leave their posts, forcing one community to hire mercenaries to protect their property. When a bunch of idiots think that just because a storm has hit the city before and nothing went wrong means nothing will go wrong that is too damn bad. Don't expect to get help when you turn it down before the storm. And don't expect the rest of us to pay for your idiocy.

aide is one thing, but an excuse to maintain the poverty you already live in is just that... an excuse. and im sick of paying for it

Nuck said it perfectly.

I believe a lot of people in New Orleans are just looking for some more cash because their FEMA checks just ran dry, and they're just exploiting the fact that they can sue our country and most likely get at least a $500,000, if not a million.

This pisses me off. People that pull this kinda crap need to realize that their life could be back on track already, but instead they sit around saying, "Poor me. Look, my home was destroyed! Look at everything I lost! And its the goverments fault!". While I can sympathize with this, its been two years, and there is a point where it goes from actually trying to recieve money for loses, to exploiting our system and taking hard earned money out of our tax payers pockets.

Everyone blames FEMA and the Federal Govt. and somehow the State of Louisiana ducks out of any blame whatsoever.

Originally Posted by BFTrauma

Everyone blames FEMA and the Federal Govt. and somehow the State of Louisiana ducks out of any blame whatsoever.

What about the city of New Orleans? What about the massive amounts of money that the Levy committee had in their budget before Katrina? Where did that money go? Why did the levy committee have a lear jet? I think a helicopter would have been acceptable. Ray Nagin should be in jail right now. I am as touchy on this subject as many of the citizens of New Orleans, just on the opposing side. This topic gets my blood pressure up everytime someone brings it up.

The Federal Gov. needs to continue their investigations and prosicute every last one of the crooks that stole from all of us during this disaster. Lets not even bring up the fact that it is tax season. Time to get my check book out again and help pay for a bouch of sorry mother fucking people around this country that do not want to do a damn thing but sit on their fists and wait on a fucking check. It will not be much longer before we have more sitting around than we do working.

Nuck

The dollar amounts are simply attention getters and its working.

Wonder why they spent all that money fixing the baseball stadium so whites could attend baseball games and white neighborhoods were cleaned up while the poorer black residential areas remain a shambles.

And clean up in there , from what I've seen up here in the news reports , is way beyond the abilities of a few people with spades and wheel barrows.

I don't think the FEDERAL courts would award them that money. Most of the cases where someone slips and falls and then sues a place like Walmart were STATE courts.

Originally Posted by BeerHunter

The dollar amounts are simply attention getters and its working.

Wonder why they spent all that money fixing the baseball stadium so whites could attend baseball games and white neighborhoods were cleaned up while the poorer black residential areas remain a shambles.

And clean up in there , from what I've seen up here in the news reports , is way beyond the abilities of a few people with spades and wheel barrows.

Trying to bring up the race card, are we?

Yes, of course. Have you ever lived through something like this?

I antecedently hit yes! I meant no.
3 quadrillion, 14 trillion, 170 billion, 389 million, 176 thousand and 410 dollars
Thats one reason i hate paying taxes, some people would rather live off of the government!