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ORIGINAL: RealityLicks

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ORIGINAL: DomAviator
if you have the balls to put your ass where your mouth is...

... Cirque du Soleil want to hear from you!

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

Not of just anybody's ass though - there are limits  .

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

       But, DA, you have to understand, those jobs are hard, and they have all sorts of mean expectations that set the poor Katrina victims up to fail.  They want you to be there on time, every day!  They expect you show the native intelligence and initiative to beat a drug test!  They actually expect people to do a fair days work, and sometimes work overtime or weekends!

       Where is your compassion?  Don't you understand that these people are victims?  That they really aren't capable of being self-supporting, productive members of society?  That they must be treated by different standards because of their background?

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

If it rocks your boat to generalise about an entire population and to participate in that kind of 'us and them' crap, go for it. If you don't like my judging you for it... well then, don't do it in public. Simple :-) .

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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado

The person generalizing here is you... others are pointing out the actual misdeeds of specific persons, and the harm they are causing to real Katrina victims... why are you trying to pretend that the New Orleans hoaxers are the victims of hate?

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

They are harming 'real' Katrina victims by making an unfortunate amalgam. If you cannot see that, there isn't much more to say.

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly

Geez would you let it GO already? Kittin has not answered you and i do not think she is going to. Sheeeeesh!!

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ORIGINAL: DomAviator

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly

Geez would you let it GO already? Kittin has not answered you and i do not think she is going to. Sheeeeesh!!

She answered - she said No - meaning thats shes all talk... She knows so much more than those of us whose cities are afflicted with them. Shes an expert on how we misjudge them, how we lack compassion, how we stereotype the multigenerational welfare class, blah blah blah ... BUT she wont face them herself in their own neighborhood - not even in broad daylight - not even to "help" them. Shes a regular mother teresa.... LMFAO.

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ORIGINAL: DomAviator

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly

Geez would you let it GO already? Kittin has not answered you and i do not think she is going to. Sheeeeesh!!

She answered - she said No - meaning thats shes all talk... She knows so much more than those of us whose cities are afflicted with them. Shes an expert on how we misjudge them, how we lack compassion, how we stereotype the multigenerational welfare class, blah blah blah ... BUT she wont face them herself in their own hood - not even in broad daylight. Shes a regular mother teresa.... LMFAO.

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ORIGINAL: Level

Okay, I think we've drove this into the ground enough.

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ORIGINAL: MusicalBoredom

Ok here are some real examples.  I agree with kitten and I was there, hands on sleeping in a tent at night and working my ass off during the day, in New Orleans after Katrina.  I spent my time away from NO here in Lafayette working to set up temporary offices and find temporary work for people.  I spent my weekends here setting up a "Music Camp" to give the displaced kids something to do with their time.  If anyone thinks that the only people who actually care about people who are in trouble are those that aren't involved then they are mistaken.

I know people abuse the system.  I know there are assholes and jerkwads living on the system but then there are assholes and jerkwads who aren't living on the system.  I saw tons on "respectable" businessmen come from all of the US to "help" by getting every fed dollar they could while providing very little in terms of benefit for that dollar.  There were also people who came from all over who actually did help.  There are users and abusers on and off of welfare.

I'm glad I spent my time wading in waist deep "hoax" trying to find bits and pieces of people's lives.

As far there being a huge group of people that live off of the government, there is that group in every city.  When you congregate people with little or no income, little or no education and little or no hope into one area you get a ghetto.  Every city in the world that I have ever been in, and yes I do travel,  has them. 

As far as the rhetoric about being Christian, what gets said sometimes makes me want to vomit -- it destroys the name.  I don't know what bible you guys read but in the one I read Christ was asked what was truly important and the response was to put God above all else and lover your neighbor as yourself.  To me that says do all I can to help out the guy on the street.  I try my best to live up to my own morals -- sometimes I fail sometimes I succeed.  My spiritual thoughts are about what I should do not about what others should do.

As far as the OP goes, I can't really think that someone who bites and spits in public as a means of "defense" could be considered sane in anyone's book.  I don't believe in putting insane people in jail for the crime of being insane.

** Rant Over **

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ORIGINAL: DomAviator

She answered - she said No - meaning thats shes all talk... She knows so much more than those of us whose cities are afflicted with them. Shes an expert on how we misjudge them, how we lack compassion, how we stereotype the multigenerational welfare class, blah blah blah ... BUT she wont face them herself in their own hood - not even in broad daylight. Shes a regular mother teresa.... LMFAO.

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly

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ORIGINAL: Level

Okay, I think we've drove this into the ground enough.

Enter the calming voice of reason......