Veteran/Katrina/Cancer Victim Gets a Taste of Compassionate Conservatism

[Contrary1]

“They’re saying I don’t deserve a trailer...”

WAVELAND, Miss. – At 28, Larry Lake was among sailors on the USS Tutuila who stared the Russians down when John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev went mano-a-mano over Soviet missile sites in Cuba.

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But he’s having a little trouble these days with some news from the Federal Emergency Management Agency: FEMA workers will be coming soon to tow away the 30-foot travel trailer where he has lived since a few months after Katrina's waters overtopped his little house.

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The family -- Larry, his daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter, nine cats, two kittens and four dogs -- fled to the higher ground of a contractor friend’s warehouse on Highway 90. “We saved everybody,” Lake says. “We stayed there five days before anybody even came by to see anything.”

After the warehouse, Lake lived on a piece of covered walkway at St. Augustine’s school in Bay St. Louis for about three weeks. Then he was able to get a van. For more than a month, he slept in it. Finally, three days before Thanksgiving and nearly three months after the storm hit, Lake got one of the 8,752 travel trailers that FEMA shipped to Hancock County to provide housing after the storm...."

http://risingfromruin.msnbc.com/2006/04/fema_wants_canc.html#posts

[OneBlueSky]

1. 99% chance that what FEMA will do with the trailer is . . .

just dump it . . . it's those crack BushCo operatives doing their thing again . . .

[Hissyspit]

2. kicked & recommended n/t

[xchrom]

3. proving once again that compassion and conservatism are

mutually exclusive.

[babylonsister]

4. This is beyond the pale.

:cry:

[Pharaoh]

5. The scum sucking Bastards!

[CornField]

6. Happy to be the 10th R on this --- kicking for all those left behind.

Kicking for all those who aren't feeling the joy of our solid economy.

Kicking for all those who can ace the tests, but know little else.

Kicking for all those who have watched their natural areas degrade.

Kicking for all those who deserve so much better than what they are getting.

Kicking for the obscene CEOs who grab 100s of million of dollars in retirement packages.

Kicking for the $30,000 + in national debt my 3-year-old already owes.

Kicking, and wishing, that I could kick something a bit more tangible and make a real difference.