Wife and I have been going round and round on this one for a long time now. My wife is the typical "American Bleeding heart" person, and I am the Jacka$$ hardnosed,eye for an eye type. Katrina was devestating, with out a dought! It put many family's out on the streets,and in other towns streets. My union took donations for the victims at the very same time that a tornado wiped out 16 family's homes in MY state (and the govt. told them they were on their own) about 1 1/2 hours from my job. This upset me so much that I went to our union President when he was collecting katrina donations (for about the second time). I told him , "Why are we not helping the familys in our state? WHY WHY WHY???? The Govt. is giving the Katrina people money hand over fist, (hotels, mobile homes,campers, gift cards, food donations, ECT, ECT, ECT. The family's in my state that just LOST EVERYTHING to a tornado are just as much "out of their homes" as the familys down south. I understand that they were out of even the smallest of things needed as well as the largest ones and the folks by me were just out of their homes. BUT, There was NO assistance offered to the same tax paying "Victims of this tornado" like there is for the ones down south? My eye for and eye stance (thinking) is that , "My home and all the belongings, are just as important to me as what the katrina folks belongings were to them"! WHY is it that one natural disater is payed for with tax money to the extent that they were put in hotels free of charge and the poor fella in Wisconsin has to PAY for housing??
This bothers me to no end!
What is worse??? The Katrina victims knew it was coming and COULD of prepaired (IE: get money from the bank, get food water etc, OR EVEN BETTER! GET OUT OF the storms way) The Folks in poor Wisconsin had NO IDEA they were going to LOSE EVERYTHING THAT NIGHT! Who is more to blame for not prepairing? (And PLEASE dont give me that crap that they did not have the means to leave! Thats not my fault and certainly should not be my COST to shelter them. If the Govt. can NOT shelter everyone that loses a home to a natural act of god, than they should NOT use my tax money to pay for a SELECT FEW!!!! The bottom line is that one person losing everything is no different than anouther person losing everything?? Right?
The guy that lost his tractor to Katrina, I BET loved his tractor as much as I would (do) if a Tornado took it from me?
My wife on the other hand says that, " We should help those poor folks down there, they lost everything?" Well I say to that, " Tell that to the guy who does not have any family picures anymore who had that house that was demolished by the Wisconsin tornado!! What makes the persons (EVERYTHING) down in the Katrina area worth a hand out and the persons (EVERYTHING) in Wis. worth nothing????

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