Reply #4: Fuck that asshole. [View All]

[Maddy McCall]

You don't owe him any kind of an explanation for his not-so-subtle bigotry.

Yes, most people in poverty work. Even before Welfare Reform, over 80% of people who received governmental assistance moved off of the dole in less than two years.

What perturbs me most about jerks like the one to whom you refer is that they actually think that the poor in Katrina benefited from Katrina, that it brought some kind of windfall to them. Nothing could be further from the truth. Can you imagine having everything you own--the only existing photos of your deceased parents and grandparents, your child's school year books, you daughter's baby photos--all gone. Everything.

Ask any Katrina victim...would they rather be back in their home in the lower 9th ward, working for minimum wage making beds at a hotel, setting up barricades on Bourbon for the City, or would they rather be in a hotel in Houston with their four kids and mother? The little bit of money they've received is nothing compared what it will cost to rebuild their lives--and lots of what they lost can never be replaced. Oh, and there's that little thing called PTSD, which they'll live with for the rest of their lives.

Tell that jerk to shut his pie hole. He's trying to say something racist without saying it. Cut him off at the pass.