Oh, I totally agree - I think we can see that in this thread. "That's not what MY donation went towards!"

Surprise! There's no real restriction on how to use the funding. It's at their discretion - and they don't have to call and ask how to use your twenty bucks.

Here's my real question - is the true onus on the people spending the money, the organizations giving it to them sans restrictions, or the people donating for having essentially unwarranted expectations as to its use?

I specifically read that they were providing necessities in the charities I donated to. I also specifically read that 100% of my donation would go to the hurricane victims without one cent going towards administrative costs. And it would only be used for hurricane victims, not starving dogs in Seoul.

If I had a 9-5 job, and had proof that someone used that charity's proceeds for a strip club, I would file a lawsuit or at least make enough of a racket to get on tv.

The poor are uneducated enough to squander money like this but if someone that isn't poor somehow is OK with them doing this, I don't even know what to say for their reasoning.

-Rudey

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but on a morning radio show, a lady called in who worked at a jewelry store. She was furious b/c some other lady came in to the store she worked at to buy DIAMONDS with her FEMA card.

WTF? :eek:

This is about the funniest chit I've read on this topic in a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggttttttttttttttimmm mmmmmmmeeeee...

And y'all a bunch a cheap-assed bastards... Such turncoats and tightwads... Miserly or curmudgeons like the dudes in Voltaire's Candide...

And y'all really think that the NOLA evacuees can go into Neiman's an purchase a $$$$bling bling LV??? :rolleyes: without mall security jacking chit up???

You know that LV was bootlegged from jump... Ya outta be happy they gotta deal!!!

Since SOME people are worried that the evacuees are dangerous...
 

Seems like there are those that choose to prey on the evacuees, as opposed to the other way around.

Katrina refugee gunned down in Tennessee

Police investigating whether robbery was the motive

Friday, September 23, 2005; Posted: 11:29 a.m. EDT (15:29 GMT)

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (AP) -- A man who sought safety from Hurricane Katrina in Tennessee was gunned down in the street and died, possibly during a robbery of his Red Cross relief money.

Don Maurice Airline, 24, of Metairie, Louisiana, was found on a secluded road with five gunshots to his head. Days before he was killed last week, the Red Cross gave him a debit card worth several hundred dollars.

Investigators found five handgun shell casings with Airline's body, less than a mile from a Red Cross shelter where he had stayed. Police were investigating whether robbery was the motive; no one has been charged.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/23/ref....ap/index.html

Re: Since SOME people are worried that the evacuees are dangerous...
 

You southerners . . . damn.

Re: Re: Since SOME people are worried that the evacuees are dangerous...
 

Hey... :(

Honeykiss1974
~still southern at heart

I wonder what the chances that the murder was another refugee though?

Probably pretty high.

That's what I thought about when I heard it. Just didn't want to say it. She probably bought it out of a hair supply store... look closely see the p's and k's? :p

j/k. I don't know the validity of any of it.

Re: Re: Re: Since SOME people are worried that the evacuees are dangerous...
 

You all need to put down those guns and find hobbies like model train building.

-Rudey

What evidence supports this assertion?

Probably the same evidence that proves it to be some hick from the backwoods of Tennessee...... None.

from WKRN News 2

Chattanooga Choo Choo

Exactly.

I hope you realize that I was agreeing with you. Looking back, it might have sounded like I was being arguementative. :)

I did realize that you were agreeing.

I've been feeling overly lawyerly on GC lately because I've been reading so many statements people are making without providing any evidence or support to back them up, and it annoys me to no end.

Yea, and the welfare system is the single most exploited system within our government.