re: High credit score = no assistance from FEMA

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Because that's exactly what we are saying here.

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For some people that is exactly what they're saying. They're romanticizing the hell out of the plight of the lesser man, and it happens all the time on this board. By and large, I'd rather NOT qualify for an additional grant because my credit score is too good and my income is too high. At the end of the day, that is a better situation than the person that does qualify for grants, and I hope people can see that.

I'm well aware it isn't fair, but all this talk about how much better it is to be poor and shite drives me nuts.

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For some people that is exactly what they're saying. They're romanticizing the hell out of the plight of the lesser man, and it happens all the time on this board. By and large, I'd rather NOT qualify for an additional grant because my credit score is too good and my income is too high. At the end of the day, that is a better situation than the person that does qualify for grants, and I hope people can see that.

I'm well aware it isn't fair, but all this talk about how much better it is to be poor and shite drives me nuts.

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I just want to make my stance clear. My opinion is that people who live off the system are a plague to the rest of society. I would like to see all their free shite taken away... sink or swim, work or starve.

I'm not romanticizing, envying, or any of that. I loathe them and wish they all would die.

Just wanted to make myself clear.

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I hope you have learned how FEMA works since you've been proven wrong multiple times in this thread. The title of the thread and OP have also been proven wrong multiple times. It's important that people actually read the whole thing, instead of just the title, so they're not misinformed.

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First, nobody with a genuine need for info in a thread would read the thread title, conclude that they got all of the info offered in the thread and then move on to another part of the internet, thinking they are well informed. This statement of yours is absurd.

Did you miss the post from the person who told us about his telephone conversation with FEMA? It backed up the notion in the OP's title thread.

No, yet here you are telling the OP and me "the thread title is wrong". Well, thread titles are summaries and can't tell the whole story. So, I guess you won the argument. Are you happy now? Are you re-assured in your own sense of self worth? The OP's thread title did not tell the WHOLE story about how FEMA operates. You won the argument.

Since you are the subject matter expert on all things FEMA, I look forward to YOUR THREAD explaining to everyone exactly how FEMA operates. When are you going to help everybody out by sharing your expertise in this forthcoming thread of yours? Can you start the thread within the hour? We all need to be enlightened by your expertise. Thanks.

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Not even close. I'm upset because the people with the exact circumstances as me will get a grant and I won't. Why? Because they have piss poor credit and i dont. That's not reasonable.

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Exactly, your not denying anyone who qualifies for FEMA your pissed because you did what your supposed to do. Go to work, pay your bills and your being penalized because of it. The kicker you don't qualify for the tax dollars you paid in that makes FEMA possible

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You seem like some egomaniac that has the world all figured out but probably doesn't have their own life in perfect condition but that's just my guess.

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Pretty spot on, minus the egomaniac part I hope.

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Needing help in an emergency is not the same thing as making living off the government a career.

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Sure, but it is still a personal accountability issue. Doesn't mean there is a soul who deserved any of this, but relying on FEMA is/was preventable. We can sugar coat it out of respect, but it doesn't change the validity. I hope everyone gets the help they truly need and hopefully the silver lining of this experience is that people soften some of their hardline stances on other folks that are struggling.

When you say "relying on FEMA is/was preventable", you lose your argument. Because no one person is insured for every single one of life's possible tragedies. The "should have" argument can be applied to people living next to a nuclear plant in Japan. Or living on the beach along the Indian Ocean. ANYWHERE in the US would have flooded if they got 3 feet of rain in 60 hours.

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. We can sugar coat it out of respect, but it doesn't change the validity. I hope everyone gets the help they truly need and hopefully the silver lining of this experience is that people soften some of their hardline stances on other folks that are struggling

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You're completely missing the point. Oh well

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opinions expressed by many people in this thread who are considered to be assholes are the same opinions expressed by this board in disasters across this country, but now that it has happened to our friends and family, they're suddenly off limits?

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It's all about the timing of it really. You don't know who is reading these boards. Someone that lost everything with no flood insurance could be on here looking for flood information and then they read that.


It's bad enough people in other parts of the US have made horrible comments about LA online on various social media, etc. in regards to this disaster. Most people on this board have some tie to LA. We should be better than that.