Hurricane Sandy

[TNHarley]

All we do is give give give. Either our country or to other countries. When there is a disaster, we give. They need something, we give. We just give to help. When there is a disaster on American soil, how much help do we get? NONE, thats how much! Stop sending other countries money! They don't aprreciate it one goddamn bit!

 

[Oldguy]

Here's a list of international aid for Katrina.

International response to Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pakistan and Iran offered held for Sandy, but were turned down.

Most of these storms we can handle ourselves. In other words, we don't need much help while other countries do.

Disaster aid, like charity, is done because it's the right thing to do, not in expectation of something in return. That's not charity...it's manipulation.

 

[blastoff]

The rest of the world. They're always there when they need us.

 

[Ava]

Here's a list of international aid for Katrina.

International response to Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pakistan and Iran offered held for Sandy, but were turned down.

Most of these storms we can handle ourselves. In other words, we don't need much help while other countries do.

Disaster aid, like charity, is done because it's the right thing to do, not in expectation of something in return. That's not charity...it's manipulation.

And as of November, 6 here is a list of contributors:

Retailers' efforts include:
· Walmart has pledged up to $1.5 million to disaster relief partners such as American Red Cross, Salvation Army and Feeding America. The retailer is also working closely with the American Red Cross to help support disaster shelter operations by donating essential items, including water, food, snacks and personal care and have up with suppliers to prepare hot meals for those affected by or responding to the disaster in Secaucus, NJ.

Sam's Clubs in the Northeast are also offering cell phone recharging stations and temporarily waiving membership fees to those in the area.

For more: Retailers Rebuild after Hurricane Sandy | Retail News | RIS News: Business/Technology Insights for Retail, Supermarket Executives

 

[WillowTree]

Here's a list of international aid for Katrina.

International response to Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pakistan and Iran offered held for Sandy, but were turned down.

Most of these storms we can handle ourselves. In other words, we don't need much help while other countries do.

Disaster aid, like charity, is done because it's the right thing to do, not in expectation of something in return. That's not charity...it's manipulation.

Duh!

 

[Old Rocks]

All we do is give give give. Either our country or to other countries. When there is a disaster, we give. They need something, we give. We just give to help. When there is a disaster on American soil, how much help do we get? NONE, thats how much! Stop sending other countries money! They don't aprreciate it one goddamn bit!

One only has to do minimal research to put the lie to this shit!

You want to play victim all the time. Damned 'Conservatives' are the antitheses of the old conservatives that would acknowledge help from what ever source. Other naitions have offered and often given help, in many crisis and disasters in the US.

 

[Oldguy]

All we do is give give give. Either our country or to other countries. When there is a disaster, we give. They need something, we give. We just give to help. When there is a disaster on American soil, how much help do we get? NONE, thats how much! Stop sending other countries money! They don't aprreciate it one goddamn bit!

One only has to do minimal research to put the lie to this shit!

You want to play victim all the time. Damned 'Conservatives' are the antitheses of the old conservatives that would acknowledge help from what ever source. Other naitions have offered and often given help, in many crisis and disasters in the US.

Yep, I can attest to that as I've worked about 20 disasters in the past 7 years and seen plenty of instances of it.

The local or regional ones, like the flooding in Minot, ND or California fires, don't need any outside help and it's not typically offered. But, the "big" ones like Katrina or Ike or Sandy do produce outpourings of money and physical help from a lot of different places.

 

[waltky]

Adding insult to injury...

FEMA needs to lay off insolvent Sandy victims
November 14, 2014 ~ Just about everyone in America has legitimate complaints about the government. Duh! But when disaster strikes — floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, sinkholes, blizzards — most people expect government to be there to help.

After Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency took a public beating. Too late. Too bureaucratic. Too ineffective. One of the most famous lines ever uttered by George W. Bush was to Michael Brown, the FEMA director, “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job,” when Brownie was so not doing a good job. The government response to Katrina was a complete scandal. Since then, a lot of time and effort went into refurbishing FEMA’s image. Top people. More money. Presidential attention. In effect: Never again.

Oops. Now comes The Associated Press to report that FEMA, the new bastion of government caring and competence, is asking about 850 disabled, poor and elderly adult home residents who were victims of Hurricane Sandy to repay $5.8 million in emergency assistance provided by FEMA. Even as they were evacuated from assisted-living facilities through dirty, swirling water and stuffed into a series of miserable people bins, including an armory, before ending up in other public facilities, they were being urged to apply for federal help. That was help, FEMA says now, they were not supposed to get.

FEMA’s reasoning is incredible. FEMA says the money paid to the people transferred from public assisted-living centers was supposed to be for temporary shelter but the government eventually took them to other public facilities. So, two years later, it expects hurricane victims to give the money back. The Associated Press quotes a FEMA letter to Robert Rosenberg, 61, saying that he must pay back $2,486 FEMA sent him after he was flooded out or file an appeal, which, of course, means getting a lawyer.

The irony is that FEMA set up shop urging the homeless to apply for assistance. In the flood of paperwork, many people did not get the message the money they were seeking could be used only for temporary housing, not food or clothing or medical supplies to replace what they had lost. According to AP, Rosenberg, who has a spinal disability and lives on a fixed income in a small room in an assisted-living facility in New York, spent the money on food and clothing in the aftermath of the storm. He says he has no way of repaying the $2,486, which for him might as well be $2,486,000.

Two years after the disaster, FEMA is still combing through records thinking there might be as many as 4,500 households, most still struggling to recover, who, it suspects, may not have been entitled to help and need to repay $53 million. FEMA says they might have been evacuated from vacation homes and weren’t eligible for aid, or another family member might also have gotten assistance, or they had gotten aid in a previous storm and failed to buy federal flood insurance. FEMA wants these people to come up with an average of $6,987.

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