Dr Phil is suppose to help people by giving them honest answers. Where were those honest answers? Brian Williams report was almost as nauseating. Someone needs to tell Brian Williams that the levees broke on Tuesday morning and they were rescued on Friday...that is NOT a week. He kept saying over and over how they had been there a week.
1. Don't tell me that you did not have the money to evacuate when you have a 2 week old child in your arms and usually several more children running around. If you had money to have children, then you have money to properly protect them from this storm by getting out of town. If you are not that responsible, then no one can help someone who refuses to help themselves. It is time to recognize that these were people on welfare for generations!
2. Why didn't Dr Phi ask about the 60 MILLION dollars that were suppose to be spent on those levees over the years only to learn that it has been "redirected" (that is the Louisiana word for stolen)? Everyone knows the generations of corruption in Louisiana in general and New Orleans specifically. It is the thing that books and movies are made about. Don't sit there and blame the Corp of Engineers when you allowed your own state and local government to steal you blind!
3. I had 37 family members affected ( most of them total destruction) and not one of them needed as much as a bottle of water from the government. They did not need a FEMA trailer or any help whatsoever. They were all properly insured because they are responsible adults. And yet, I know of others who were sitting in a FEMA trailer and TAKING CRUISES!! Here again, if they can afford to take cruises (I know one person who has been on 3 cruises just since Katrina) then they don't need a FEMA trailer from the government. You know this is not an isolated incident. The multiple reports of Louis Vuitton purses and lap dances being purchase with those $2,000 FEMA cards.
4. Local 1st responders (cities, countries and the state) should be responsible for emergency shelters. There were 46,000 MREs delivered to the Superdome by the federal government before Katrina ever hit. Did Mayor Nagin or Gov. Blockhead ordered them? NOPE The mean ole federal government said we think you are going to need these. Those people went without water for those 3 days because Governor Blockhead would not let the American Red Cross in. The Redcross was there and ready and Governor Blockhead said NO!
5. But the most telling of the kind of individual you are dealing with in this situation was the FACT that there was a group of Vietnamese at the Convention Center that Friday. This group has been completely ignored by Dr Phil or Brian Williams or FOX or anyone else. We saw them by accident. But their actions spoke VOLUMES. There they sat. They had no help from anyone (just like all those ungrateful welfare magots that were screaming and threatening to burn the Convention Center). No one gave them water...no one gave them food. But there they sat. They were in a circle to one side of the Convention Center and the minute the TV panned them....their story told it all. The circle they sat in was orderly and neat. No one was deficating where they sat. The children were inside the circle quietly playing. No one was hollaring for help or threatening others. In their little circle, there was no chaos. They had brought enough water and food with them to last several days. They had actually PREPARED even though they did not know the levees would collapse. There they sat. And finally, when the helicopters arrived...they did not rush the gates. There they sat. Finally, a TV cameraman caught them as a National Guard asked them if they were ready to leave...and their response was..."get everyone else out first, we don't want to get in the way." They had elderly. They had children. And they properly cared for both. In this horrible situation, they were calm. What a huge black eye they gave the New Orleans welfare community!!!
The bottom line is that people think that hurricanes are the only thing that happens to people. Tell that to folks whose entire towns have been destroyed by a tornado (which happens more than hurricanes) or wildfires (which happens more than hurricanes) or earthquakes or floods.
And yet all these people manage to rebuild. This country was built on individuals who understand personal responsibility and it will be destroyed by individuals who has no accountability whatsoever. If a person can not afford flood insurance, than they should not be allowed to rebuild in New Orleans (below sea level) period! It is no accident that New Orleans went 6 weeks without one murder and Houston's crime skyrocketed after the Katrina crud hit their streets. These are facts and I sick and tired of everyone ignoring them.
I lived on the coast for years and went through many hurricanes. It is time that people start using their hands to work instead of looking for a hand out!! Just like I did.
Dr. Phil travels back to New Orleans, one year after Hurricane Katrina wiped out entire neighborhoods. He meets with FEMA director David Paulison to see first hand how the city is progressing. Touring the temporary housing in a trailer park, Dr. Phil and David hear from residents about their frustrations with FEMA. Then, Dr. Phil meets with a couple who says they had a picture perfect marriage, until Hurricane Katrina destroyed their lives. Brent and Stephanie relive the horror of what they witnessed a year ago. How is the stress of trying to rebuild their lives affecting their marriage and the health of their 2-year-old daughter? Then, Dr. Phil meets with Police Chief Warren Reilly in the Lower Ninth Ward, a neighborhood that was decimated when the levees broke. How is the rebuilding of the levees coming along? How is the mental and emotional health of the New Orleans police officers? Then, you’ve got the best seats in the house at a huge concert event to raise money for the first responders and their families. Brian McKnight, Brooks & Dunn, Jeff Foxworthy and Allen Toussaint come out to show New Orleans a good time in support of New Orleans Police Department, Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services. Talk about the show here.
