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That would be a better title for the article.  In her defense she's not the only one guilty and a lot of people would say "They're going to give it to someone, it might as well be me."  Taxes need to be collected to fund the necessary  functions of government but the funding of private property improvements is a crime.  This includes the rebates for energy efficient materials used in construction.

 

http://timesdaily.com/stories/...uild-shelters,193844

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Originally Posted by Seven:

If it is a Federally funded program(FEMA) to help those who can't otherwise afford a storm shelter then how is it a crime? Help me out here. Am I missing something? 

 

Also, how is she "stealing" from neighbors? 

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There are a lot of things I can't afford. Will they buy those things for me? We were in the tornado. She said she was "trapped" in her home for ONE day. Trapped how? We were "trapped" in our home for a lot longer than that. She was in her home, so apparently she didn't lose it. Why would fema pay for a shelter for her?

OK. I am gonna bow out of this conversation now. All I know is that these programs are available for anyone who wants to take advantage of them. Other than that I have no idea nor any opinion on people who use them. I don't understand why all the hostility over someone getting a storm shelter but there are lots of things I don't understand so no biggy there. 

 

Y'all have a good one. 

Of course the title of this post is hyperbole.  I was just using it as an example of how people think something is free because they get it from government.  Government gets it by taking it from the taxpayer.  In cases such as this it amounts to theft by proxy.  I have no more animosity towards the woman in the article than I have for others that take government handouts but I think that people seldom consider or appreciate just where the funds come from.  The bloated pig of a government that we have allowed to get so out of control has got to be cut down in size.

Originally Posted by Seven:

OK. I am gonna bow out of this conversation now. All I know is that these programs are available for anyone who wants to take advantage of them. Other than that I have no idea nor any opinion on people who use them. I don't understand why all the hostility over someone getting a storm shelter but there are lots of things I don't understand so no biggy there. 

 

Y'all have a good one. 

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Seven, it's hard to explain unless you "were here". Too many, that had very little or no damage, were running all over grabbing anything that anybody was giving away, just because it was free, or lying and saying they lost things they didn't lose. Believe it or not that was very easy to do. It was chaos and no one was checking on anybody's story. I cooked on a little gas stove that is used for camping, we had three coolers of ice, finally got the ice after about three days, it was hard to find until then. Until I got those coolers we rarely opened the refrigerators. Then as they got too warm to keep food we crammed what we could into the freezer compartments. Anything we could fit in those coolers is all I saved from three refrigerators and one freezer.

We lost most everything out of them. All anyone had to do was go down and show their drivers license proving they lived in the area and they would get a food voucher. We didn't to that because money wasn't our problem. But many that had NO damage and could well afford to buy their food did do just that, and then their insurance paid them back for lost food in their refrigerators. Ours did. We had a curfew and had until sundown to get anything we needed, and get back to our homes. We had to go all over to find things. The traffic was bumper to bumper, the gas lines, if places had gas, were unreal.

There was no gas to be found for my little camping stove, so i had to be very careful when I cooked, just things I could cook fast.  No batteries, no gas to venture very far from home, no ice, no electricity unless you had a generator, which we finally got, ONE day before we got power back. But had we gotten it sooner we'd have had the problem of finding gas to keep it running. Now what I was saying, why should fema buy her a storm shelter? I can understand helping her find somewhere to live, food to eat, clothing, but she didn't even need that. Fema didn't buy US or anyone around here that I know of, a storm shelter. MOST people were wonderful. People were so kind and caring, neighbors helping neighbors. That is why someone that takes advantage like this woman ****** me off. If they give her a storm shelter they darn well should give EVERYBODY one.

Thank you Jen for clarifying. I do understand what you are saying. There are always those who would abuse the system just to get "something for free". It just sounded like y'all were singling out this woman and her storm shelter. I don't personally know the woman and I don't know whether or not if she really needed it or whether she just wanted it because it was free. Like I said I totally get what you are saying now that I understand where you are coming from a little better. 

 

We were very lucky after the April tornadoes here as we never lost power and the only real aggravation we had was that the internet was gone for a week and then when it did finally come back on it was extremely slow for another week. I have many friends that live in Athens and a few of them had much the same experience as you it sounds like. 

Originally Posted by F350:

That would be a better title for the article.  In her defense she's not the only one guilty and a lot of people would say "They're going to give it to someone, it might as well be me."  Taxes need to be collected to fund the necessary  functions of government but the funding of private property improvements is a crime.  This includes the rebates for energy efficient materials used in construction.

 

http://timesdaily.com/stories/...uild-shelters,193844

I think someone is Jealous. 

How do you feel about tax breaks for corporations?

How about unemployment compensation?

How about foodstamps?

I think someone is Jealous. 

How do you feel about tax breaks for corporations?

How about unemployment compensation?

How about foodstamps?

 

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How you can get someone being jealous from any of this is beyond me. So you think that the government is rolling in so much money that they should now provide storm shelters for people? Tax breaks for corporations, unemployment compensation and food "stamps" have nothing to do with this subject. Those are "red herrings" you tossed in. IF she had needed somewhere to live after the tornado, IF she had needed food, then there would be no problem. I'd have to read the article again, but it seems like I remember it stating she paid for the storm shelter herself and kept whining to fema until they reimbursed her. Apparently she isn't destitute if she was able to do that. I didn't see any mention of her having any storm damage to her home. We had over $6000.00 worth of damage to our home and property.  So should we all have bought shelters and gone down and harassed them until they paid us back? AND the shelter was to be for her mother who died, but now SHE ends up with it.

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