# Katrina person one year later-have I missed the spoof, or is this guy for real?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 6, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580 "2006-06-06T05:10:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/1 "2006-06-06T05:10:57Z")
[If this fellow’s arrogance is to be taken at face value](http://www.newyorkmetro.com/news/intelligencer/17161/?imw=Y), I don’t know what to say, other than GET THE FUCK OUT!
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/2 "2006-06-06T05:21:17Z")
Jesus, what a lazy fucking piece of shit. And this part made me want to strangle him to death with the TV cable:
> [@Worthless Lazy Asshole](#):
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> “I spent my money just the way I wanted, and I think [fema] should send me some more,” he says.
Gaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!
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### Author:  [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/3 "2006-06-06T05:22:41Z")
This person clearly had no common sense before Hurricane Katrina, and no amount of yelling, cussing, pleading, issuing of court orders or swift kicking to the groin is going to give him any common sense now.
But yeah, he’s for real.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/4 "2006-06-06T05:23:21Z")
Oh, and what did he spend his money on?
> [@](#):
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> fema sent him $9,000 in housing aid, but he spent it all on booze, cigarettes, some clothes, and food—partying, mostly.
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@DEFIANT\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DEFIANT_1)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/5 "2006-06-06T05:26:04Z")
Really?
Are you really surprised?
Being taken care of by the Nanny Government is most likely his cultural heritage.
He probably feels the same sense of entitlement as any other tax sucking parasite.
Just make sure you make it to work tomorrow so he can continue the lifestyle he has become accustomed to.
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### Author:  [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/6 "2006-06-06T05:28:29Z")
I knew people like this growing up. “The system has been fucking me over all my life. Now it’s my turn for some payback.” Seriously. There is nothing to be said to someone with this mentality.
They’ve given him well over $10k in cash and other compensation. Time to cut him loose. He shouldn’t see another dime. And I hope that article is a wake-up call for FEMA.
> [@DEFIANT 1](#):
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> Being taken care of by the Nanny Government is most likely his cultural heritage.
Please, do explain.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/7 "2006-06-06T05:29:21Z")
> [@DEFIANT 1](#):
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> Being taken care of by the Nanny Government is most likely his cultural heritage.
Yeah, that and eating fried chicken and watermelon. :rolleyes: I’d rather have a nanny government than the one it sounds like you’re in favor of.
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### Author:  [@jakeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jakeline)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/8 "2006-06-06T05:34:00Z")
> [@DEFIANT 1](#):
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> Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
You must be fucking ecstatic then, asshole.
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### Author:  [@DEFIANT\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DEFIANT_1)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/9 "2006-06-06T05:35:04Z")
So Marley,
Why don’t you expand my apparently racist philosophy.
Please educate me as to why the government should support any abled person regardless of race.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/10 "2006-06-06T05:38:17Z")
> [@DEFIANT 1](#):
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> Please educate me as to why the government should support any abled person regardless of race.
I’ll do it as soon as you tell me what the parasite’s “cultural heritage” is.
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### Author:  [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/11 "2006-06-06T05:38:48Z")
> [@DEFIANT 1](#):
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> So Marley,
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> Why don’t you expand my apparently racist philosophy.
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> Please educate me as to why the government should support any abled person regardless of race.
I’m not going to speak for **Marley**. I will say, though, that on first, second and third read, your statement came off sounding quite racist. I asked you to explain (before Marley’s post, actually), but you (apparently) ignored that.
So I’ll ask again – what did you mean by your statement?
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### Author:  [@DEFIANT\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DEFIANT_1)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/12 "2006-06-06T05:40:16Z")
OK, jakeoff
are you guys just going to make not quite witty comments, or you going to educate as to why you feel this is a good thing
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/13 "2006-06-06T05:42:28Z")
Nobody said it’s a good thing, moron. We’re asking what the fuck you mean.
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### Author:  [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/14 "2006-06-06T05:43:01Z")
Elaborate on this guy’s cultural heritage.
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### Author:  [@DEFIANT\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DEFIANT_1)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/15 "2006-06-06T05:44:40Z")
are we debating that their is a segment of the population that has been living this lifestyle for some time and is not interested in anything else?
if you are keying in on the word cultural you are mistaking my intentions, i am refering to the sector of society on the whole who continue this cycle.
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### Author:  [@DEFIANT\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DEFIANT_1)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/16 "2006-06-06T05:45:49Z")
as in welfare culture
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### Author:  [@DEFIANT\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DEFIANT_1)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/17 "2006-06-06T05:49:22Z")
why does it always have to be a racist thing?
every culture has it’s non-achievers
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### Author:  [@jakeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jakeline)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/18 "2006-06-06T05:51:15Z")
> [@DEFIANT 1](#):
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> OK, jakeoff
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> are you guys just going to make not quite witty comments, or you going to educate as to why you feel this is a good thing
Sure thing, Skippy. The guy in question is a parasite, and a terrible human being. If you had simply made your post without the term “cultural heritage,” you probably wouldn’t have had the same knee-jerk reaction as folks have had. On preview, I see that you’ve tried to explain yourself. If you don’t understand why what you said is inflammatory, I don’t think I can explain it in small enough words to a cretin who can’t differentiate between “there” and “their.”
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### Author:  [@DEFIANT\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DEFIANT_1)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/19 "2006-06-06T05:54:16Z")
i thought i made myself clear.
perhaps i should have said sub-culture, would that make you feel better
and nit picking grammar, quite the intellctual
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-person-one-year-later-have-i-missed-the-spoof-or-is-this-guy-for-real/359580/20 "2006-06-06T05:54:32Z")
“Welfare culture” (hey, look, I can use capitals!) sounds like so much Moynihan Report bullshit, but yes, I’m sure there are plenty of people taking advantage of the system. I hope your posts don’t derail this thread, by th eway.
Johnson sounds like a worthless fuckhead, and I’m sure he’s not the only fuckhead who used his FEMA money like an idiot. At least he’s getting what’s coming to him. In the scheme of the government’s post-Katrina financial fuckups, this seems like a small error. Overpaying the cruise lines by crazy amounts of money, to name one, was a much bigger mistake.
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