Lawmakers Eye Tornado Shelters for Trailer Parks in Oklahoma

By | September 17, 2009

  • September 17, 2009 at 1:11 am
    Arnie says:
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    They can’t afford to help pay for shelters without a rebate or incentive? How about keeping their sorry a-sses alive for an incentive? Can’t anybody support themselves anymore? These people don’t spend money on a real house, don’t carry insurance, get federal aid when their little box blows away, and now they want everybody else to pay for their tornado shelters? Give me a break.

  • September 17, 2009 at 2:50 am
    Toto says:
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    What does an Oklahoma divorcee and a tornado have in common????

    They both get the mobile home!

  • September 18, 2009 at 10:07 am
    Enlightened says:
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    Arnie,

    People that live in mobile homes are
    hardly squatters. Did you know that
    some mobile homes cost over $125,000
    and have the same materials as a site
    built home?
    And how do you know that they don’t
    have insurance?
    It seems to me that you are very
    prejudiced against hardworking families
    that don’t have the means to buy land
    and sink themselves in a $250,000
    mortgage. In rural areas the cost of
    living may be a little cheaper, but
    there are little to no jobs.
    Are people who live in mobile homes,
    that they are either paying rent on
    or making payments for so much different
    than people who are working and paying
    rent or making payments on low value
    homes?
    People like you make me believe that
    ignorance belongs to those who put
    themselves so far above the average
    person that they have no sense of
    reality.

  • September 18, 2009 at 12:00 pm
    Bob says:
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    Perhaps Arnie is a little too hard on mobilehome owners (I was once part of the trailer trash crowd) but his point is still valid. People have choices, buy a house, rent an apartment develop a plan to go to the nearest church, school or neighbor with a basement or shelter – Don’t ask the tax payer to subsidize your lifestyle.



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