[StBernard] American Nightmare

[Westley Annis]

Hi, 
I just got to the bottom of the labyrinth of injustices I have only heard of
throughout my life, in fightng "city hall" and its all true.  I could spend
a lifetime talking to 50 different people a day from FEMA and get a
different answer everytime.  What I have gleamed is that as an upstanding
tax-paying citizen, trying to do everything right, even donate to the
Tsunami fund, because I am "overqualified", cannot get a dime or a trailer
from FEMA.  All my neighbors on welfare are gleefully spending their $26,000
and getting it on at the casinos and have not only one but two trailers to
accomodate their unemployed relatives, on a piece of land that will be
bull-dozed.  All we need is maybe 10,000 to reinstall heat and air and
appliances and we can do the rest ourself.  We have gotten no trailer, and
only told we can have a loan at the tune of 760.00 a month on top of our
mortgage of 813.00 and new truck payment of 450.00 and the 400.00 a month in
gas it is costing my husband to drive to N.O. to work.  I am getting the
feeling that its better to be a have-not and stand in line for hand-outs
because living the "American Dream" has just become the "American Nightmare"
Thanks for listening, Msmudpie of Saint Bernard