From Local People to Business Community- Help for Katrina's Victims
Driving home this afternoon, I spotted a young boy,
his mother and friend set up a lemonade stand in
my neighborhood. As I drove past, I spotted the
large cardboard sign " Lemonade-$.50- For the hurricane victims'.
I turned around, went back, bought one lemonade and paid for several.
The mom asked her son, 4-5 yrs. old, " Why are we raising money?"
His reply was very simple;
"We're raising money cuss all these people lost their homes in the
water and the water took everything away. We gotta help them
cuss we're people, too"
I told them" God bless you!, We need more people like you".
There was a steady stream of customers at the stand.
They are going to be there again, tomorrow and/or Monday.
No doubt there are hundreds of such stories around the country.
At this time, when our country is experiencing a major
catastrophy, we need to hear and see more stories like this.
When we have a leader who does not lead , and death, chaos , misery
and confusion in New Orleans, we need to see the good people
who come forward to help. They help because" We're people,too"
Please share any and all stories of our good people.
Thanks.
Bob already posted the
fantastic response MoveOn.org got with offers of 42,000. beds for the victims
in one day.
The good work continues.
Carnival to supply three ships for shelter.
Kudos to Carnival Cruise Lines!
Hopefully, other cruise lines will follow.
http://www.carnival.com/cms/Articles/fema_charter.aspx
I had to read it to be sure,
I had to read it to be sure, but it appears that Carnival is going to staff the ships as well. That is incredibly generous on their part.
Generous? Carnival is being paid
at least, that's what was reported on MSNBC today.
My question is, who will be staying on the cruise ships?
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic throng, the coward, and the meek, who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
Ralph Chaplin
I don't see the big hotel
I don't see the big hotel chains offering up any of their thousands of rooms in the region. As long as the refugees don't have to pay, I don't care if some of my tax money goes to Carnival, or any other hospitality company with the heart to forego their huge profits, and pitch in.
Bill and GM, thanks for
the positive imput.
We need to hear more about how many good
people/ companies are trying to help at this time.
Still,
something is wrong with this picture. The cruise ships are heading into their highest rate season, and the hotels across the Gulf coast are at the end of their highest rate season.
Guess I should have started a thread about questionable FEMA vendors, huh?
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic throng, the coward, and the meek, who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
Ralph Chaplin
Carnival gets $192 Million + expenses
Carnival will be paid NICELY for their efforts.
Gloria, (Hi!) I'm having trouble
with the links, the one above and
another one ( can't remember which forum).
Do you have another link?
Thanks.
;-)
Link's fixed
I also fixed another one...somewhere...I just had to change 'ref' to 'href.'
Try it now.
My dog is smarter than your president.
Thanks, Necco.It works
Thanks, Necco.
It works fine, now.
;-)
Sorry! : ( "They want the
Sorry! : (
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security
like it's some kind of federal program."
- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
Can you make this link work?
Can you make this link work?
10:57 PST Raw transcript of comments by NOLA evacuee Clara Barthelemy: (Jacob Appelbaum's Weblog) 08 Sep 2005 "The 17th Street levee was bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers to save the more valuable real estate in the city… to keep the French Quarter protected, the Ninth Ward was sacrificed… people are afraid to speak out… everyone who was near there heard the bombings… they bombed seven times. That’s why they didn’t fix the levees… 20 feet of water. Gators. People dying in water. They let the parishes go, not the city center. Tourist trap was saved over human life."
http://jacob.wordpress.com/category/houston/
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security
like it's some kind of federal program."
- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
It's working for me
or am I a day late and a dollar short, again? ;-)
My dog is smarter than your president.
It loads for you? I get a
It loads for you? I get a header and that is about it! Must be me : ( Does it link to another source for the quote? Does it look reliable?
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security
like it's some kind of federal program."
- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
It does load for me
but I haven't found a more reliable link. This is the word of an evacuee who is being interviewed by a blogger. It's not like major media is going to interview her or that her story will ever make major media.
It does give her name. Perhaps after things calm down she can be interviewed.
My dog is smarter than your president.
It worked fine for me,too.
It worked fine for me,too.
True, however they're still
not coming out ahead on the deal.
I honestly think they are trying to help.
They are sheltering victims
who are displaced by the hurricane.
Who else would they shelter?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9188316/
There is no mention of pay, however, even if they were
compensated, it would no doubt be less than what they
would make on a cruise where the average ticket is $500.-$1,000.+ a person.
Those tours would make them a lot more money!
Generous? Yes it is!
Why can't we see the good people are doing?
question for karin
Hey Karin, what do you think about the political blackmail your governator is pulling? I can't believe that he is threatening to raise your taxes if you do not let his proposal pass.
Schwarzenegger "I tell people vote yes on Proposition 76 and make sure that we do everything that we can to pass this proposition so that we force our legislators once and for all to live within their means and not to continue spending money and to keep making promises to people that they can't keep."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050903/ap_on_re_us/schwarzenegger_taxes
That is priceless - Good ole Republicans, always blaming someone else for their inability to keep their promises. I thought this was Gray Davis's problem too - he couldn't run the government properly on the tax funds he was given. Don't get me wrong, I understand there isn't money (what like 2%) for the governor to control because of the way the people have voted where the money goes.
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security
like it's some kind of federal program."
- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
Gloria, Ahnuld is a stubborn,
do-it-my-way-or-else guy who has been trying to bully our
state ever since he came into office. He has been threatening
us with dire consequences for quite a while, now.
I agree with Bob Mulholland. Ahnuld's threat to raise taxes is
not likely to happen. That is unless he's willing to lose thousands of
votes from the ticked off Repubs.
So all this bullying is a
So all this bullying is a Republican trait? Like Bush trying to cram privatizing Social Security AGAINST the wishes of the public? I am amazed that Americans don't see them for what they really are.
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security
like it's some kind of federal program."
- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
Gloria,yep- you are so right! Please check out
how Ahnuld wants to move our state forward.
http://www.democrats.com/node/6000#comment-37886
Better user of money
Maybe they should give a Habitat for Humanity the same money to help relocate people. Some people don't want to live on a ship. I don't imagine that it will be like a resort with ten meals a day and shuffleboard. The ships probably need to be overhauled and this is a new way of securing labor. When something sounds too good to be true, it usually isn't.