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    Some Evacuees Spend Relief Money At Strip Clubs

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    Well, if the moneys spent on a stripper shes most likely going to spend it at the mall so at least the money is helping the economy... no matter where its spent... right? Dunno, I think after all thats happened people should be able to have a bit of fun... a beer and a lapdance... as long as they dont have hungry kids at home whos it going to hurt?

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    Cause people who spend money at the malls are America's heros.

    We need a holiday for them.
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    You can take me to the mall next time you get to honolulu

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    Quote Originally Posted by Silverback
    Cause people who spend money at the malls are America's heros.

    We need a holiday for them.
    "America has come under attack in New York! The best thing you can do is go shopping!" -- paraphrase of Bush

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    I currently work at the Dave and Buster's in Houston and for the past week we have had to constatly tell people "No, you can not use your Red Cross Card here". I , myself have already had issues with 4 different partys who ran up bills on steaks, booze, and pool (2 over $100 1 around $300 and one at $600 and something) and then pissed that we wouldnt take the redcross or fema debets. Ofcourse I know not EVERYONE is like this, but it still really pisses me off.

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    I don't drink, don't go to clubs, don't even stop at the local bar....but if I had just lost everything, I believe I would be tempted to go out there and get knee deep in debauchery. I'd probably get stoked to the gills until both of my eyes were in the same socket. But that's just me.
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    Or about the couple of people who bought Louis Vittan (sp?) bags with their cards.

    Those people should be made to return them and then kicked to the curb.

    It's illegal for any merchant to deny using the cards...however, it does state on the cards that they cannot be used to purchase drugs, alcohol, or firearms...so...

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    I started a thread about this yesterday, yeah it's some messed up shit.....

    http://www.stripperweb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55231

    IN KATRINA'S WAKE
    Storm-relief money
    spent at strip clubs

    Police in Houston find misuse
    of FEMA's $2,000 debit cards

    Posted: September 16, 2005
    1:00 a.m. Eastern


    © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com






    On the heels of a report earlier this week that Atlanta area Katrina victims were using $2,000 debit cards to purchase luxury items like Louis Vuitton handbags, Houston police yesterday discovered the cards, provided by FEMA and the Red Cross, being used at local strip clubs. The Houston Police Department just formed a task force to investigate the abuse of the cards, which were distributed to thousands of Katrina hurricane victims to provide for necessities, such as food, clothing and toiletries. On the first day, the police found the cards being used to buy beer while ogling exotic dancers.

    According to a report by KPRC, Channel 2, in Houston, a manager at Caligula XXI Gentlemen's Club said he has seen at least one debit card used at his club. A bartender at Baby Dolls, identified only as "Abby," said she has seen many of the cards used at her establishment.

    "A lot of customers have been coming in from Louisiana and they've been real happy about the $1.75 beers and they're really nice," she said.

    She couldn't say for sure whether the cards she has seen were from the Red Cross or from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but she found no fault in using federal dollars to guzzle beer at a strip club.

    "You lost your whole house, then, why not?" she said "You might want some beer in a strip club. There are a lot of guys out there that like to do that."

    The wife of the manager of another strip club told KPRC that her husband has seen patrons from Louisiana offering Red Cross and FEMA debit cards, but she declined to reveal the club's name.

    The FEMA and Red Cross cards have few restrictions, but some evacuees have gotten into trouble when they tried to get additional cards.

    Meanwhile, Houston police are going undercover as evacuees to keep their eyes on those who get in line more than once.

    "There may be some individuals who use some false identifications or providing false information on the forms, so we're targeting those persons also," said Lt. Robert Manzo.

    Officers handed out a warning that falsifying government documents could result in a 20-year prison sentence.

    Earlier this week, the New York Daily News reported that "profiteering ghouls" were using the debit cards in luxury-goods stores as far away as Atlanta.

    "We've seen three of the cards," said a senior employee of the Louis Vuitton store at the Lenox Square Mall in affluent Buckhead. "Two I'm certain have purchased; one actually asked if she could use it in the store. This has been since Saturday."

    Restrictions on the cards say they can't be used to purchase alcohol, tobacco or firearms.

    The clerk at the Louis Vuitton store said: "There's nothing legally that prevents us from taking it, unfortunately – other than morally, it's wrong." The unnamed employee told the Daily News two women who had made purchases with the card each bought a signature monogrammed Louis Vuitton handbag in the $800 range.

    Meanwhile, in Memphis, Tenn., residents told News Channel 3 they saw Hurricane Katrina survivors purchase designer jeans, high heels and purses with their $2,000 emergency debit cards. According to the report, one Katrina victim was spotted at a Cordova clothier buying stacks of $65 designer jeans. Another viewer reported spotting a survivor buying "over $700 in high heel shoes and purses" at a Memphis department store "while (her) younger children, most of them looked under the age of 3, looked like they haven't showered in weeks."

    "If they make an inappropriate decision as to what to purchase, the whole issue of victims' rights comes into play," said Bill Hildebrandt, chief executive officer of the Mid-South chapter of the Red Cross. "They have a right, I guess, to be inappropriate."

    Hildebrandt conceded that the purchases could be traced, but he said if the receipts just said "shirt" or "jeans" or "clothes," there would be nothing the Red Cross could do. He said the Mid-South chapter stopped using the cards because the process became too cumbersome.

    FEMA reportedly issued about 10,500 cards in the pilot program, with a total value of $20.6 million. Hildebrandt said some Red Cross chapters are still using the cards.

    The cards have been a major source of confusion – and resentment – throughout the country.

    On Sept. 7, after criticism about the federal government's slow response to helping the Katrina victims, the Bush administration announced that displaced families of the hurricane would receive the debit cards to spend on clothing and other immediate needs.

    Two days later, FEMA scrapped the program after distributing the cards at shelters in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, where many of the evacuees were moved. FEMA said then that no cards will be issued to victims in other states. FEMA Director Mike Brown resigned a few days later after being sent back to Washington, D.C., and relieved of his duty as head of the federal government's hurricane efforts.


    Since then, FEMA has stopped handing out the cash cards, but is now requiring evacuees in other states outside Texas to apply for cash assistance.

    FEMA is still distributing $2,000 per household to victims of the hurricane, but the process has been slow. After a brief experiment with the debit cards, the agency is now directly depositing the money in bank accounts. Hurricane victims have to register with the agency by calling an 800 number that is almost always busy. The same goes for a Red Cross fund, which has distributed $140 million thus far, determining the amount per family based on need.

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    I don't know what system they have in the USA but here in Blighty people get money if they can't be bothered to find a job, this money is caled 'The Dole'. Every week people come in and spend their Dole Cheque on us dancers.
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    These guys obviously didn't lose much to the storm nor care if they did



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    Either that, or they are living on Government assisted income and don't care what happens.

    Bad, bad choices, people.

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    Realistically, if you give people money, you can't tell them what to do with it. Many of these people are from the hood, and probably never had $2000 at one time in their lives. This is their one chance to get that designer purse, to be the big shot at the strip club etc.

    Many of them would rather have a few designer clothing items that they know they will never be able to afford. Blacks always longed for prestige, largely because they never had anything. Mainstream America is naive regarding the lives of poor blacks. That is why I said the city officials understand the mentality of the ghetto negro. If any good came out of this catastrophe, it opened the eyes of many white people to how bad conditions are for large amounts of our black society.

    Houston news channels are a bunch of bullshit. They always are looking for a sex story to air.They'll sell their own mother for a news story.

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    Well, if I was broke-as-fuck and someone handed me one of those, I'd prob'ly buy a bunch of cheap food and household necessities . . . and then go out and get a tattoo, or something else I'd been wanting for a while.

    Also, I'm guessing that a small percentage of these refugees are NOT actually broke -- I mean, you can lose your house but have a bank accounts in a national system, and flood/hurricane insurance, etc. From THAT point, I'd spend the whole thing on luxuries, and wait for the insurance dollars to come through.

    I mean, come on. You lose your house, you lose your beloved pets, and you want life to be MORE grim, necessities-only, when it doesn't have to be? No. I'd need some serious lightening up to be able to deal with it emotionally. I'd go out and party like the world was ending.

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    ^ And, let's not forget that some of these people had small children that needed things...and they chose to spend it on expensive clothing for themselves.

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    Maybe these aren't the people that received the cards at all. Maybe it's someone that paid the real victim $1500 cash for the $2000 card so they wouldnt' have any problems? How many people are going to question a victim of Katrina?

    Plus, since most people are not any where NEAR their homes and dont' have access to any information they would need to give the insurance company (such as the number to call in the first place), how would they get anything? In my home town, we had little banks that had maybe 2-3 branches, if that. If their banks are like that and in 10 feet in water, how can they get any money out? Even if they bank with Bank of America, if they left their wallet/purse at home, how are they going to be able to prove that they are who they say they are? Insurance companies dont' just hand over money. They know that (just as in 9-11) people try to profit from disaster. Unfortunately, the real victims have to suffer in the process.
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    they should have made them only redeemable at HEB , etc. not cool at all, IMO.

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    ^^Totally agree SouthernGrl. Target would have been a great place for people to redeem their cards: clothes, groceries, and household goods - all at affordable prices.

    A guy I talked to had lost everything, but was insured so wasn't concerned about it. He did not hesitate to get his extra $2K and had a blast spending it. Most guys that come into the club using their cards are in similar circumstances. Sad really.

    But I do want to relay one story I heard from a family member. She saw a guy buying a pair of diamond earrings and using his card. Just as she was getting all aggravated, she overheard him saying to his daughter that hopefully it would bring a smile to mommy's face. So maybe it is irresponsible to buy extravagent merchandise, but maybe it's worth it if it makes someone else happy. I'm not applying this to all or even most of the people using the cards for crazy purchases, but I will think twice before judging someone the next time I see it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Amethyst
    ^^
    But I do want to relay one story I heard from a family member. She saw a guy buying a pair of diamond earrings and using his card. Just as she was getting all aggravated, she overheard him saying to his daughter that hopefully it would bring a smile to mommy's face. So maybe it is irresponsible to buy extravagent merchandise, but maybe it's worth it if it makes someone else happy. I'm not applying this to all or even most of the people using the cards for crazy purchases, but I will think twice before judging someone the next time I see it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AudreyLeigh
    You can take me to the mall next time you get to honolulu
    Coincidentally, I may have found good reason to make another trip to Honolulu one of these days.

    If I do Audrey, I'll think about it.

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