Soup kitchens, shelters, famine and disaster relief, and all the rest. No government, no corporation, no other organization at all has been as charitable as Christianity has.
When my parents` home took on 8 ft. of water from hurricane Ivan in 2004 the Salvation Army helped us with food and cleaning supplies during the emergency and the St. Vincent Depaul came through with a check for $150. FEMA wrote a check for $13,000 to help rebuild and replace things that were destroyed. $13,000 is a bit more than $150 and cleaning supplies. You think?
Oh, I see. You're the world's charity case.
As someone who also experience the total loss of my home and everything in it, to a tornado, I find your comments beyond deplorable, but not unexpected. When I experienced this loss, family, friends, relatives, and customers at the bank where I worked, came forward with comfort, help and assistance. Going through a catastrophic loss is devasating for a family, and it doesn't end when the skies clear. It took me more than 6 months to see a nickel of insurance money, I had to find somewhere else to live in the interim, and the city condemned what was left of my house.
I also lost my sense of safety utterly. Children in our neighbourhood became hysterical when the skies got cloudy, and teachers said they refused to go outside at recess. I was plagued with what I now recognize as a form of PST, and I still feel terror in a windstorm. The suicide rate in our county went up 500% in the 12 months following the storm.
That you would make jokes about people going through a catastrophic loss, shows you to be a real piece of work.
The suicide
Pay attention, Class, if you can. FEMA is not a charity. And anecdotes do not disprove generalities.
I feel for you, but you leftards are clueless.
Pay attention idiot because you don't have the brains God gave a fly. What generalities are you trying to prove?
I am not an American, I had full insurance coverage, and a very good job, and I was just fine, so don't condescend to me or try to mansplain government programs to me. You seem to be the one in need of an education.
The stated purpose of FEMA is to aid in the recovery of uninsured losses in a catastrophe. In reality, FEMA is a slush fund for companies like Haliburton, and other members of the elite service industry, to funnel funds to the donor class and mask it as Hurricane assistance. Haliburton received a $50 million contract from FEMA for clean up after Katrina.
So much for what passes for "aid", both foreign and domestic, is actually subsidies for donor class, masked as assistance for the poor or other citizens. Like the bailouts to corrupt mortgage companies and Wall Street brokers and nothing to the citizens who suffered when the housing bubble burst, large scale corporations were awarded untendered contracts to provide shelters and housing to victims of the storm. FEMA is a conduit between these corporate donors and taxpayer dollars.
Individual citizens are slow to receive aid until all of their claims are resolved. In Houston, victims of the storms not only lost their homes, many of their jobs were lost as their places of employment, stores and services were washed away as well. Knowing what I went through after the storm - I quickly realized how much more difficult their recovery would be. My community was mostly intact. A handful of neighbourhoods on the edge of the city - mostly newer executive homes, were destroyed utterly. Some streets looked like they had been bomobed. My children's school was still there, as were my job, and our hospitals and infrastructure.
That wasn't true in Houston. Entire sections of the city were completely destroyed - homes, schools, businesses and services. How would these people live until their claims were settled. Everyone talked like living through the storm, it's over you made it! No! You're torment is just beginning. I made it through because my community rallied around the victims of the storm, and helped us through, both financially and emotionally, and because I still had resources - a car, a job, and money in the bank, and a job.
Also, the insurance company is your friend, until you have a claim. At the point when you need them most, their only goal is to minimize your claim. From what I can understand, the FEMA adjusters are worse. While FEMA glad hands untendered contracts out to big government contractors, they nickel and dime every small business or homeowner they deal with.
