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"Maggie" <Maggy@peoplepc.com> wrote in message
news:11i5svm9d2cgh00@corp.supernews.com...
> The black man who is mayor of New Orleans is doing his best. He has had
the
> weight of the world on his back, he has stayed and done what he could.
> He has lived this nightmare on the front lines, he didn't just get dropped
> in from another part of the country, he lives with it 24/7. Poor bastard
has
> got to be the most frustrated guy in the world. Probably hampered by the
> feds,yet  blamed for everything that has gone wrong. If there is one guy
who
> should be respected and recognized for what he has done in the face of
this
> disaster it is him. Not only did he have to deal with the hurricane, but
the
> biggest frustration has got the be the federal government. I would hate to
> be in his shoes.
>
> What have you done? Sit on your computer and criticize and condemn.
> Until you have walked 3 steps in his shoes, shut the fuck up.

Until you've watched your taxpayer dollars go to pay for luxuries, YOU STFU,
asswipe:
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Lavish tastes of card-carrying lowlifes

Ben Widdicombe

Profiteering ghouls have been using debit cards distributed in the wake of
Hurricane Katrina - intended to buy essentials for evacuated families - 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, who asked not to be
named. "Two I'm certain have purchased; one actually asked if she could use
it in the store. This has been since Saturday."

The distinctive white cards were distributed by the Red Cross and the
Federal Emergency Management Agency and carry a value of up to $2,000.

"It doesn't say anything on the card other than alcohol, tobacco and
firearms cannot be purchased with it," the store employee told me. "There's
nothing legally that prevents us from taking it, unfortunately. Other than
morally, it's wrong."

The source told me that the two women who had made purchases with the card
each bought a signature monogrammed Louis Vuitton handbag in the $800 range.

"They didn't look destitute by any stretch. You would never have said, 'They
must be one of the evacuees.' . The one that I dealt with yesterday was 20.
She'll be 21 next month." The source described the reaction of other
store-keepers in the mall - which includes luxury brands Ferragamo,
Burberry, Judith Leiber and Neiman Marcus - as "outrage."

"It doesn't say anywhere on there, but it would have to be a good amount to
be shopping in here," the source said with a dark chuckle.



http://nydailynews.com/front/story/345030p-294601c.html