New Orleans and Dave Chappelle (kinda)

my buddy just got back from Houston for the Steelers game. His hotel was next to reliant stadium and full of refugees due to housing shortages. he said there is security on every floor bc of the drug dealing and prostitution rings that work the hotels. his grandfather was propositioned by both. i guess FEMA gave $2000 on a card to refugees… the shopping center was full of refugees spending their money… at HUGO and Louis Vitton! :bowrofl:

remember the reperations skit when 2million cadillacs were sold in one day… whelp, substitute caddys with prada bags and that’s what’s going on in houston right now. :doh: :steelers: :steelers: :steelers:

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Im Rich Biatch!!!

is he full of BS?:dunno: why would he make it up? if you knew the guy, you’d know that he has no clue of what’s going on outside of his immediate line of sight. :rofl:

I heard that also about the Louis Viton purses and stuff that people were buying w/ their $2,000 that FEMA gave them.

is anyone surprized? i’m not in the slightest way.

they were spending money at strip clubs and bars also

IN KATRINA’S WAKE
Storm-relief money
spent at strip clubs
Police in Houston find misuse
of FEMA’s $2,000 debit cards


Posted: September 16, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

On the heels of a report earlier this week that Atlanta area Katrina victims were using $2,000 debit cards to purchase luxury items like Louis Vuitton handbags, Houston police yesterday discovered the cards, provided by FEMA and the Red Cross, being used at local strip clubs.

The Houston Police Department just formed a task force to investigate the abuse of the cards, which were distributed to thousands of Katrina hurricane victims to provide for necessities, such as food, clothing and toiletries. On the first day, the police found the cards being used to buy beer while ogling exotic dancers.

According to a report by KPRC, Channel 2, in Houston, a manager at Caligula XXI Gentlemen’s Club said he has seen at least one debit card used at his club. A bartender at Baby Dolls, identified only as “Abby,” said she has seen many of the cards used at her establishment.

“A lot of customers have been coming in from Louisiana and they’ve been real happy about the $1.75 beers and they’re really nice,” she said.

She couldn’t say for sure whether the cards she has seen were from the Red Cross or from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but she found no fault in using federal dollars to guzzle beer at a strip club.

“You lost your whole house, then, why not?” she said “You might want some beer in a strip club. There are a lot of guys out there that like to do that.”

The wife of the manager of another strip club told KPRC that her husband has seen patrons from Louisiana offering Red Cross and FEMA debit cards, but she declined to reveal the club’s name.

The FEMA and Red Cross cards have few restrictions, but some evacuees have gotten into trouble when they tried to get additional cards.

Meanwhile, Houston police are going undercover as evacuees to keep their eyes on those who get in line more than once.

“There may be some individuals who use some false identifications or providing false information on the forms, so we’re targeting those persons also,” said Lt. Robert Manzo.

Officers handed out a warning that falsifying government documents could result in a 20-year prison sentence.

Earlier this week, the New York Daily News reported that “profiteering ghouls” were using the debit cards in luxury-goods stores as far away as Atlanta.

“We’ve seen three of the cards,” said a senior employee of the Louis Vuitton store at the Lenox Square Mall in affluent Buckhead. “Two I’m certain have purchased; one actually asked if she could use it in the store. This has been since Saturday.”

Restrictions on the cards say they can’t be used to purchase alcohol, tobacco or firearms.

The clerk at the Louis Vuitton store said: “There’s nothing legally that prevents us from taking it, unfortunately – other than morally, it’s wrong.” The unnamed employee told the Daily News two women who had made purchases with the card each bought a signature monogrammed Louis Vuitton handbag in the $800 range.

Meanwhile, in Memphis, Tenn., residents told News Channel 3 they saw Hurricane Katrina survivors purchase designer jeans, high heels and purses with their $2,000 emergency debit cards. According to the report, one Katrina victim was spotted at a Cordova clothier buying stacks of $65 designer jeans. Another viewer reported spotting a survivor buying “over $700 in high heel shoes and purses” at a Memphis department store “while (her) younger children, most of them looked under the age of 3, looked like they haven’t showered in weeks.”

“If they make an inappropriate decision as to what to purchase, the whole issue of victims’ rights comes into play,” said Bill Hildebrandt, chief executive officer of the Mid-South chapter of the Red Cross. “They have a right, I guess, to be inappropriate.”

Hildebrandt conceded that the purchases could be traced, but he said if the receipts just said “shirt” or “jeans” or “clothes,” there would be nothing the Red Cross could do. He said the Mid-South chapter stopped using the cards because the process became too cumbersome.

FEMA reportedly issued about 10,500 cards in the pilot program, with a total value of $20.6 million. Hildebrandt said some Red Cross chapters are still using the cards.

The cards have been a major source of confusion – and resentment – throughout the country.

On Sept. 7, after criticism about the federal government’s slow response to helping the Katrina victims, the Bush administration announced that displaced families of the hurricane would receive the debit cards to spend on clothing and other immediate needs.

Two days later, FEMA scrapped the program after distributing the cards at shelters in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, where many of the evacuees were moved. FEMA said then that no cards will be issued to victims in other states.

FEMA Director Mike Brown resigned a few days later after being sent back to Washington, D.C., and relieved of his duty as head of the federal government’s hurricane efforts.

Its they’re own damn fault they should have had limitations on where they could use the cards like people on welfare can only use the access cards at supermarkets

we live in a fucked up world

dubuya doesnt care about black people, what should we expect to happen?

they’ll just cry for more and call some one a racist and people will give in cause that word scares them.

people have fucked up priorites…

One of my girlfriends lives (liveD i guess) on the MS gulf coast, and lost everything. She got one of the cards. You must save ALL of the receipts that you get from spending the money OR you must pay them back.

I am not surprised by this at all. But I have to say that I doubt that the government will scrutinize the receipts turned in by everyone, and they will probably get away with it. :mad:

amen, no sense of the future. they only think of present.

hell i bet half those ppl don’t even file taxes

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I’m sure no white people are doing this…

they won’t say it cause the media only hates blacks.