Damn the federal gov.! Now they're turning those poor black folks into alcoholics! This is an outrage!

Evacuees binge on Cape: Spend fed cash on booze, strippers
By Maggie Mulvihill and Dave Wedge
Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - Updated: 03:04 PM EST

BOURNE – Hurricane Katrina evacuees hastily handed $2,000 in federal relief money last month have been living it up on Cape Cod, blowing cash on booze and strippers, a Herald investigation has found.
Herald reporters witnessed blatant public drinking at a Falmouth strip mall by Katrina victims living at taxpayer expense at Camp Edwards on Otis Air Force Base. And strippers at Zachary's nightclub in Mashpee, a few miles from the Bourne base, report giving lap dances to several evacuees.
``They were tipping me $5 a pop,'' said a Zachary's dancer named Angel. ``I told them I felt bad taking their money. But I still took it.''
Another dancer said a large group from the military base was in Zachary's recently and she gave lap dances to several of the victims.
``Some spend good money, but others don't,'' she said.
An assistant club manager, who gave his name only as Michael, acknowledged yesterday that the strip joint is popular with people from Camp Edwards.
``It's no different for someone who lives at Camp Edwards or is stationed at Camp Edwards. As long as they have the proper ID they can go in,'' he said.
On Oct. 5, the Herald observed a virtual parade of evacuees from a bus stop in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Falmouth to nearby liquor stores. Some emerged and openly swilled from brown-bagged containers, while others poured booze into jugs or plastic cups and casually sipped drinks at the Wal-Mart bus stop.
The refugees have access to daily trolley service from Camp Edwards to the Falmouth Mall.
One elderly man poured a bottle of Ruble vodka into a water bottle and spent the afternoon sipping the liquor outside the Wal-Mart. Two other men were seen buying 32-ounce Coors Light cans at George's Liquors and drinking at the bus stop.
Last Tuesday, one 52-year-old evacuee, who told a reporter he was originally from Cuba, stood in the rain outside Wal-Mart for several hours drinking gin and orange juice from a thermos. The same day, a female evacuee bought ice at a supermarket and roughly $30 worth of hard liquor before being driven in a car back to Camp Edwards. Evacuees are banned from bringing booze onto the base.

Hm... it sounds like credible reporting.

I've been hearing reports of this EVERYWHERE. And while many people will blame THEM, I kinda think it's like Viagra for sex offenders: you should've foreseen this problem.

If someone gave me $2,000 I would SAY I was gonna pay off my credit cards, but in reality, I would buy a bunch of shit I don't need and whoop it up a bit.

Dude, so many people around here are illegitimately gobbling up that $2K FEMA money and spending it on personal pleasures that it ain't even funny. I hope every one of them end up having to pay it back, with interest. Welfare whores.

I've seen it here. I'm not sure how many evacuees are here or were here, and it would be unfair to say that all of them or a majority of them acted in this mannerr. However, I would say a significant minority have been hanging around our liquor stores and other places blowing money on alcohol. But I have also seen alot of peopel doing the right the things too.

edit - I should really read my post before pressing the submit. manor instead of manner

<----- Shakes head in agreement

it's the Boston Herald dork...

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegio ... eid=107538

The heralds kind of a joke in Beantown. I know some people that work there and even say the metro (the free newspaper on the T) is better.

OKeee dokee back to lurking

Wow. I am shocked. I've actually known strippers, and they would never admit to feeling bad about taking my money.

Though this is not the most efficient use of government patronage, as such, it shouldn't follow that non-evacuee types should conclude "them evacs shouldn't git helpt."

It will translate such to certain talk shows, but there's advantage-taking among all groups of people receiving handouts.

The reservation my ex-brother-in-law grew up on was about 2/3 advantage-taking and 1/3 people who'd go hungry and cold without the money. Much of both types caused by unemployment, with a certain percentage of aimless entitlement and lazy-assness that wasn't present in all people.

Eventually the evacuees will have to secure their own housing and the whooperups will be less eager to whooper.

yep. it's a poverty shift. those that took the money and ran will now be homeless wherever they relocated. nice.

i bet this will cost less than repealing the prevailing wage law......

A "friend" went to an out of state strip club recently. Asked for id. When he showed them his Louisiana license, they waived the cover and the girls inside gave him some other free stuff. He so milked it by telling them he lost everything.

Problem is, it isn't homeless people I'm talking about. It's regular Joes who dashed off to Aunt Susie's house when the storm hit, came back the next day to their undamaged homes, and then filed with FEMA as having been "displaced" by the storm.

Regular Joes suck.