What the hell is wrong with some people

[foff667]

this is how some people are using the red cross debit cards for the hurricaine victims

http://www.nydailynews.com/06-11-2004/news/col/widdicombe/story/345034p-294601c.html

[JPiZZiJP]

Hearing about things like this are what make me not care... I know, it's a ****** attitude to have, but why should we all have to pay for someone else? Especially when some of them are going to use it to get Louis Vuitton handbags?

I knew about the debit card thing, but I had no idea that they were given $2,000 each!!! In my opinion, that's ridiculous! Start them out with like, maybe $200 or $300 to buy food or something and have them replenished on a weekly basis or something. I guarantee you, there are people buying stuff, and then pawning it off for less than full price, so they can buy drugs, tobacco or alcohol.

The whole situation sucks.

You know what else pisses me off?? These people that post about 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina... "Blah blah, repost if you care!" WTF is reposting a stupid bulletin going to do?????!!!!!! If you care, go to http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/
or
http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/paypage/PELYGQVJ8Q7IB/058-1183252-5034252
or http://www.bushclintonkatrinafund.org/

and donate a buck or two.... don't waste your time (and mine, and everyone else's) reposting a dumb bulletin that the majority of people suffering have no clue about.

Now I realize this post is highly hypocritcal... first I'm complaining about how no one should get money, and then I'm telling you that you should donate. Well, I think the real point of this is stop posting stupid bulletins. If you want to help, donate money or canned goods or something. There are WAY more productive things to do rather than post bulletins.

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[Tru2Chevy]

Wow....spending Red Cross money on an $800 Louis Vuitton handbag? That's insane.

- Justin

[12secondv6]

They should use her body to plug up some of the broken dams down there

[bad64chevelle]

They should use her body to plug up some of the broken dams down there

Im with you on that one :knock:

[Tsar]

stupid ****ers :evil:

[qwikz28]

thats bound to happen. i'd rather have those cards distributed to everyone, rather then leave some people out who really need it. what kills me are the scams. people are actually making up relief fund things and pocketing the money. o, well. karma's a bitch and those people got it coming back to them a thousand times over

[NJSPEEDER]

Wow....spending Red Cross money on an $800 Louis Vuitton handbag? That's insane.

- Justin

scary part is that bag ius a better use than the reed cross would normally have for people's donations.

later
tim

[PDubs87Z28]

thats ashame..... i think that the riots and the rapes and everything else down there is crazy enough and i felt bad but the hear that the money is being used for $800 LV bags is CRAZY. I know its not everyone but thats still ****ed up.

[Fasterthanyou]

thats ashame..... i think that the riots and the rapes and everything else down there is crazy enough and i felt bad but the hear that the money is being used for $800 LV bags is CRAZY. I know its not everyone but thats still ****ed up.
Riots I'll give you but the rape, stealing, homeless.... some never had it so good. :? I'm serious. Do you really think the rapes wouldn't have happened if there wasn't a flood? It happens every day, the flood didn't trigger it and neither did the slow moving fed relief.
I think that if you're going to live below sea level and put your trust in the government then you're just stupid. Nobody should trust the government with anything let alone their lives. Look at social security, they couldn't even keep that program working but they all live in nice million dollar mansions in safe parts of the country :shock: .
Right now as a nation (and union) we need to just help those that need help and teach them to help themselves. Get their kids to school, get them clean-up jobs and do some long term planning for the rebuilding of their city. Enough with the blame game, Bush screwed up by putting that dip **** in charge of FEMA and now he's going to fix the wrongs with rights. Just everybody watch... this is the only thing Bush has control over so you know he's going to do a lot of good if only for his reputation and poll points. Iraq, he's stuck, energy prices, he's stuck, this is all he can do so let's hope he does good.

[jims69camaro]

Wow....spending Red Cross money on an $800 Louis Vuitton handbag? That's insane.

- Justin

scary part is that bag ius a better use than the reed cross would normally have for people's donations.

later
tim

i agree that may be true of some other charitable institutions, but i believe in the red cross - as well as the american cancer society (even though the latter would like to spend money on commercials).

it's very important to investigate any charity you decide to send money to. Â*they are only required by federal law to contribute a small percentage of received funds to the intended target. Â*some give more, some stay on the line of the federally mandated requirement. Â*truth is, if people are calling your house (first, get on the national do-not-call list) then you can be pretty certain that they are on the line. Â*they have to pay the people to call you, the people who supervise them and the numbnuts that had the idea to start up the drive to begin with. Â*some of them are legit and they receive contracts from local police departments and what-not, but the vast majority are in it for the money.

i just don't think that's true of the red cross. Â*whenever there is a disaster, they are typically the first ones on site.

edit: as to the luxury purchases, you knew anytime there is a handout there will be people who will find a way to exploit it. it takes all kinds to fill the world. i would rather know that everyone who needed one, got one, but then i hear that the program has been suspended so i know there are people out there that need assistance and aren't getting it.

[camaroracer1992]

how much you wanna bet they people buying are canadian? haha

[skorpion317]

just slightly off topic here....

WHAT ****ING HANDBAG IS WORTH $800?!?!?! that **** had better be encrusted in diamonds, and the bag itself be made out of gold for that price. how in the **** does someone get off charging $800 for that piece of ****? and why in the world do women actually pay that much for a friggin bag?

and now back on topic....

these people should be hung with their overpriced bags and then dragged through the streets of New Orleans behind a Jet Ski. ****ing morons.

[foff667]

I wish they installed a tracking feature in those cards so they could track peoples spending...its a nice thought to give people $ but damn if thats what they are gonna do with it stop giving them out cancel all the suspect cards & just say "**** you bitches"

[BigAls87Z28]

What is more of an outrage is that the store is actualy taking it. Im sorry, but there is no way I would take a Red Cross card if someone came in to buy rims or some other crap that they didnt need. There are some 400 people in NJ, and a large amount of them around here at Camp Evans and Ft.Monmouth.

[Fasterthanyou]

What is more of an outrage is that the store is actualy taking it. Im sorry, but there is no way I would take a Red Cross card if someone came in to buy rims or some other crap that they didnt need. There are some 400 people in NJ, and a large amount of them around here at Camp Evans and Ft.Monmouth.
They had to take it. "It doesn't say anything on the card other than alcohol, tobacco and firearms cannot be purchased with it," the store employee told me. "There's nothing legally that prevents us from taking it, unfortunately. Other than morally, it's wrong."

[BigAls87Z28]

They dont HAVE to take ****. They can just say "um sorry no, thats only to be used for emergency only, not to purchase items of luxury, have a nice day."
Is it THAT hard? People need some ****ing morals.

[Fasterthanyou]

They dont HAVE to take ****. They can just say "um sorry no, thats only to be used for emergency only, not to purchase items of luxury, have a nice day."
Is it THAT hard? People need some ****ing morals.
And they could go to court and loose for some kind of discrimination. "What, my money isn't as good here."
Trust me, they had to take it.

[BigAls87Z28]

I find it VERY hard to belive that in a court, they would be found guilty. If it was any other circumstance, yes, but an 800 dollar bag paid for by emergency money, that was a gift from the Red Cross to them to help them on their feet? No court in the land would find whatever company guilty or any discrimination. Its not like its THERE money!! I can see if this was a seperate bank account of that person, and instead of spending it on water and food, they spent it on hand bags, well be my guest, but thats the Red Cross's money that was handed to them to help them out with survival, not luxury items. Im not gunna give to charity to help people out if they are just gunna spend it on ****ing hand bags, sorry.