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How Federal Disaster Money Favors The Rich
Posted on 3/6/19 at 4:03 pm
Posted on 3/6/19 at 4:03 pm
Warning: NPR
What a bullshite story. It juxtaposes two families in Houston. One is, of course, a white family with a good job and owns a home. The other is, of a course, a black family with a single mom who rents a home.
Shockingly, the person that owns a home got more money from the government than the person who rents a home. He got paid for damage to his home. She got $2,500 for a deposit and first month's rent on a new rental. She spent it on a car.
What a bullshite story. It juxtaposes two families in Houston. One is, of course, a white family with a good job and owns a home. The other is, of a course, a black family with a single mom who rents a home.
Shockingly, the person that owns a home got more money from the government than the person who rents a home. He got paid for damage to his home. She got $2,500 for a deposit and first month's rent on a new rental. She spent it on a car.
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From the beginning, a lot of things went right for the Papadopoulos family. John's employer, Microsoft, gave him as much time off as he needed and more than $10,000 to help with rent and other bills that piled up after the flood. The Papadopouloses rented a townhouse nearby and, within a few months, the federal aid they had applied for began to arrive.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency gave them $30,000; because the family owned a home that had been destroyed in the flood, the Internal Revenue Service sent checks for more than $100,000 in refunded taxes — a perk of having a relatively high income. The Small Business Administration gave the family a low-interest loan.
About a year after the storm, Papadopoulos said, his family was financially stable.
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The Evans family was not.
anice Perry-Evans had one goal after the floodwaters receded: find a place to stay. She didn't have any savings for a hotel or a new apartment, so when a co-worker offered her a room in his house, she took it, even though it was one room for her and her three kids and it was a 45-minute drive from work and school.
Then, she started applying for help from FEMA.
The agency gave her about $2,500, enough to cover a deposit and first month's rent in a new place, but Perry-Evans needed the money for something else. Her oldest son was hoping for a college football scholarship. He couldn't afford to miss school or football practice that fall, and the family couldn't afford for Perry-Evans to miss shifts as a mail carrier for the post office.
"I had to go to work, and I had to get these boys back and forth to school. So I took that [money] and I put it for a car," she explains.
With her immediate transportation needs met, Perry-Evans went back to FEMA to see about getting more money for housing, but she says agency representatives reprimanded her for incorrectly using the money she had been given.
"Some of them were kind of rude," she remembers.
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Put another way, after a disaster, rich people get richer and poor people get poorer. And federal disaster spending appears to exacerbate that wealth inequality.
This post was edited on 3/6/19 at 4:04 pm
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Posted on 3/6/19 at 4:05 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
People who own property will get more money for property damage. Yawn.
Posted on 3/6/19 at 4:06 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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And federal disaster spending appears to exacerbate that wealth inequality.
Are they typing this with a straight face?
Geez.
Posted on 3/6/19 at 4:08 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
She should be able to get a low interest loan. She works for the freaking Government. That's about as good as it gets when it comes to job security.
Posted on 3/6/19 at 4:09 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
since only those too poor or stupid to have insurance qualify that doesnt add up to the rich and wealthy getting that money
its usually just the lower middle class just well off enough to buy property but living in poverty on that property who get such help
its usually just the lower middle class just well off enough to buy property but living in poverty on that property who get such help
This post was edited on 3/6/19 at 4:10 pm
Posted on 3/6/19 at 5:17 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Federal disaster aid isn’t meant to make anyone whole, much less more prosperous than they were pre-disaster. The “rich” family was financially stable a year after the flood because they were stable prior to it. The poor family remained unstable and couldn’t even follow the rules with what they were given. And they likely didn’t qualify for a low interest loan because you still must have reasonably good credit. It’s not a grant. It may seem harsh but a natural disaster is not a golden ticket to improve your lot in life.
Posted on 3/6/19 at 5:35 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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How Federal Disaster Money Favors The Rich
Posted on 3/6/19 at 6:22 pm to zeebo
The founding fathers had it right when only men who owned property could vote. Boy we fricked up a good thing. Every problem we have is directly a result of this being overturned.
Posted on 3/6/19 at 7:02 pm to Wtxtiger
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The founding fathers had it right when only men who owned property could vote. Boy we fricked up a good thing. Every problem we have is directly a result of this being overturned.
I understand what you’re saying but holy shite could that escalate communism in today’s times. The leftist would have started buying up land decades ago, forcing people out via eminent domain if necessary. These crooks would have absolutely done it to “fundamentally change America”
Posted on 3/6/19 at 7:57 pm to Rekrul
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I understand what you’re saying but holy shite could that escalate communism in today’s times. The leftist would have started buying up land decades ago, forcing people out via eminent domain if necessary. These crooks would have absolutely done it to “fundamentally change America”
This is a good point, which further highlights one of our main societal problems. The left will tend to bend and break whatever the rules are to increase power and influence (control).
Most traditional Americans want reasonable individuals with a reasonable stake in the game to be able to maintain a fair say in government. They want for government to be used primarily to help guide the common good without a disproportionate equity between takers and givers nor infringement upon the individual.
(Now here comes the leftists to redefine what reasonable means)
Posted on 3/6/19 at 8:00 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
guess whose tax dollars are spent on federal disasters?
Hint it wasn't the single Mom who was renting
Hint it wasn't the single Mom who was renting
Posted on 3/7/19 at 12:48 am to Loserman
Dont people get flood insurance?
Posted on 3/7/19 at 1:24 am to Bigtime92
I am convinced that govt officials take money from disaster relief. Sheila Jackson Lee probably made a fortune from Harvey.
Posted on 3/7/19 at 3:32 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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one room for her and her three kids
Why dont the dads just get a job and help out........
Posted on 3/7/19 at 5:45 am to Bjorn Cyborg
The Federal Flood Insurance Program is welfare for real estate developers that encourages irresponsible development in flood-prone areas, many times causing those who've never flooded to flood.
That sounds a lot like bank fraud, but since she stole from the government, no harm no foul.
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With her immediate transportation needs met, Perry-Evans went back to FEMA to see about getting more money for housing, but she says agency representatives reprimanded her for incorrectly using the money she had been given.
That sounds a lot like bank fraud, but since she stole from the government, no harm no foul.
This post was edited on 3/7/19 at 8:15 am
Posted on 3/7/19 at 5:59 am to Bjorn Cyborg
Heard it on the radio.
Badically people who own homes get money to rebuild/repair those homes, and people who don’t own homes and/or uave bad credit aren’t eligible for as much money.
Reeeeee!
Badically people who own homes get money to rebuild/repair those homes, and people who don’t own homes and/or uave bad credit aren’t eligible for as much money.
Reeeeee!
Posted on 3/7/19 at 6:03 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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the Internal Revenue Service sent checks for more than $100,000 in refunded taxes — a perk of having a relatively high income
What does a tax refund have to do with distribution of FEMA assistance?
Posted on 3/7/19 at 6:07 am to Beessnax
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What does a tax refund have to do with distribution of FEMA assistance?
Be quiet! You're upsetting the narrative!
Posted on 3/7/19 at 6:16 am to Bjorn Cyborg
The whole article is yet another example of how it’s getting pushed that the only thing that matters is difference of outcome.
Circumstances and choices that lead to that difference do not matter. You can be a royal frick up (not implying that applies to the woman in this case), but if you don’t have the same luxuries as someone who worked hard and sacrificed to be where they are.....well then “that’s not fair!”
For fricks sake, it tries to paint her misusing given funds and then having the audacity to go back and ask for more to apply to the actual purpose in a light of the system out to hurt her.
And it does a shitty job of that argument as well, listing why she “needed” that car but not why she couldn’t use the funds to move closer.
Circumstances and choices that lead to that difference do not matter. You can be a royal frick up (not implying that applies to the woman in this case), but if you don’t have the same luxuries as someone who worked hard and sacrificed to be where they are.....well then “that’s not fair!”
For fricks sake, it tries to paint her misusing given funds and then having the audacity to go back and ask for more to apply to the actual purpose in a light of the system out to hurt her.
And it does a shitty job of that argument as well, listing why she “needed” that car but not why she couldn’t use the funds to move closer.
This post was edited on 3/7/19 at 7:52 am
Posted on 3/7/19 at 6:27 am to trinidadtiger
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Dont people get flood insurance?
No they usually don't
One of my boys is an insurance adjuster and worked Houston. 9 out of 10 claims he went on the people didn't have flood insurance
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