Posted On: February 20, 2006, 6:57 pm CST

Posted By: Cherie

Hummmmm Diane, Sounds like you didn't put much thought into this (idiot). For hundreds of years people have lived in the gulf coast areas. Yes every so often we have to get hit with a hurricane. I also lived in Kansas and was hit by a tornado, In New York people are under the risk of terrorist and blizzards in the north. But these are our homes, a small price to pay to live in the area where our families and friends lives, our work, are churchs and everything we know and love lives. New Orleans and the rest of the gulf coast has been hit by unusally high and strong hurricane season for the passed couple of years. We have insurance and we pray. FEMA's biggest mistake was to help in bailing us out to began with. It isn't the goverenments job to bail us out. We are paying 2800.00 a years for insurance for our home and yet are insurnace company is not paying for the claims as they should. This is a major problem with the insurance companies. NOT the goverenment,
i have a very hard time believeing that the insurance companies are hurting as bad as they said. My home is a 2800 square foot home and 2800.00per year is how much i paid for insurance. Now for 9 years never had a claim nor did any major storms hit in nine years. Now you multi. that with the number of people who also never file a single claim in nine years and the money they collected there is a huge amount of money. Not to mention the insurance companies collect interest on the monies they charged over the years and invest that as well. IT doesn't seem that this should be a money problem.
The other point is, I PAID for coverage of my home for complete rebuild if needed. Those monies and funds should be set aside for my home and every other insured home out there.
A girl friend of mine was told by one adjuster that her home wasn't as bad as others. To be happy with what she got.
Hummmmmmm every room was flooded and there is black mold growing in her home now, and the walls still have not been repaired as yet and her now has no carpet, her brick fireplace has a crack in it so large you can see the outside throught it. Her roof is so damaged that rain is still coming in and reflooding everything. Not to mention the personal items she lost in the storm (beds, Chairs, ect.) How much is the cost to repair $23,000 for her home alone. How much did her insurance company pay her 4,500.00. How much does she paid in insurance 3200.00. She would have been better off to invest the money in a bank account than to pay them.
Instead of everyone pointing the finger at the goverment and looking at faults lets look at the families that are hurt and need help.
Solution:
It pisses me off to hear the goverenment complain about not having any money to help. Even though it isn't their problem. But let not say they can't help when the goverenment sends billions of dollars to counties that burn our flags and yell hateful chants in the streets.
If they hate us WHY sent them money to use against us. I think we would have a lot more respect if for everytime we see a flag burned in a nation that nation has $1,000,000.00 of U.S foreign aid pulled out of that county. Every time a mosque peaches hate... Good-bye funds. I think we as Americans can help ourselves a bit better with the money than support those who, no matter what we do for them they still hate us and will do us harm.
We have pain and suffering in are own boarders why then do we need to look outside of our nation to help those that will harm us.
Sorry but lets be real we need to help ourselves before we can help those who want to harm us. Beside think of how fast we will start getting world respect if they are taught to stop hating us and thank us for the things we do. For now lets help ourselves. Victim of RITA and of Katerine.