Be safe Texas.

[GO REBS]

I can definately appreciate that letter that JOE posted.

I have been working 12 hour days at P.O.D.s around Houston for the last 5 days. It is amazing to see the people who line up for ice, water, and m.r.e.

Ive watched people driving 100k Mercedes drive through2-3 times for a bag of ice and a case of water. This is not just a single individual. These are multiple instances.

I sometimes just have to laugh when folks pull up in there cars and ask if they can get there FEMA card here. Several of them i learn were refugees from Katrina that have made Houston there new home. We joke that they just need to get there old cards reloaded.

I still dont have power. Theyre telling me sometime next week. Ive got a generator thats running a fan, t.v. and fridge.
Im taking a day off and taking advantage of my inlaws electricity. Air conditioning and some college football will hopefully rejuvenate me!!!!!

GO REBS

[Bleacher Creature]

Well hell, if this doesn’t piss you off then nothing will. I too am still w/o power and working every day. (INS Adj)
This Chic is slopping at both ends of the public trough!


Baytown teacher stocks up on free MREs; stirs up cyberworld

http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/ ... fa377.html

Jacki Steinhauer is one of the lucky ones. She has no damage at her Deer Park home, she has power and she doesn't have to work since her school is closed.

"Life is great after a hurricane when nothing really happened to your house!" Steinhauer says in her blog, "The Secret Life of an Uninteresting Teacher."

The most recent entries brag about all of the free MREs she's been eating -- MREs that are meant for hurricane victims who have no food because they have no power. Some of those victims have no homes.

The teacher has it down to a science, according to her blog: "I got Schlotsky's today for lunch and went again to the courthouse in Baytown to get my water, ice, and food. This time, there were different meals, but hopefully as good as the others. Then, i came home, emptied my trunk and then headed off for the Deer Park POD (Point of Delivery)."

"I think that I am falling in love with MREs. They are pretty darn good. I went around 5:30 to go get more MREs and actually got another box of real MREs, water, and ice," Steinhauer wrote on Wednesday. "Right now, I have five cases of water, two 20 pound bags of ice, four 10 pound bags of ice, and four boxes of MREs."

While stocking her pantry and frig with taxpayer-funded freebies, Steinhauer has become quite the MRE connoisseur.

"Yesterday I ate meatballs with marinara sauce, almonds, wheat bread with cheese sauce, pretzels, and the orange punch. Today's meal was chili mac, applesauce, a pop-tart, wheat bread with cheese sauce, fruit punch, and apple cider," she wrote. "It is so cool that you put a little bit of water in the bag with the food and in about a minute, there is hot food. This is great. I don't have school and getting free food!"

What Steinhauer probably didn't bank on -- in between bites of meatballs in marinara and chili mac -- is that nothing is really secret in cyberspace.

Her blog began making the rounds Wednesday and commenters from all over the country are ripping Steinhauer to shreds.

Many of the comments contain language we can't quote. Here are some of the cleaner ones:

"You are a disgusting excuse for a human being. I can't believe you are taking advantage at a time like this."

"That is just disgusting what you are doing. How can you live with yourself?"

"You are taking away food and supplies that people who really need them should get. Talk about spoiled and greedy. Karma will come back and slap you upside your head for that."

"Hope you choke on those MRE's."

We spoke with Steinhauer by phone on Thursday. She said she took the free food, water and ice because she "has no money." She initially said she's out of work right now, but then admitted she's a teacher at Baytown's Lee High School and is still getting paid while the school is temporarily closed because of Ike.

"But I spent my last $20 yesterday," Steinhauer said.

She said she wasn't aware of the flood of nasty comments.

Some of the commenters have threatened to turn the "uninteresting teacher" in for fraud. It's not clear if she would face charges. We tried calling the FEMA fraud hotline to ask, but the line was busy.

The blog disappeared Thursday evening, shortly after we talked with Steinhauer.

[Tucson]

I quit volunteering at my church 20 years ago after the Christmas give away for the needy. People were loading up at our church and then hitting every other church. Some had more stuff than they could fit in their cars.

Also, after the Christmas season, all of the left overs were burned.

So, now I give to families that I know need it and deserve it.

I bet that 90% of folks are really in need and DO appreciate it. The moochers ruin it for the honest families.

I have a cousin that is a #1 moocher. We used to laugh that she was driving her mother's Lincoln to the community center to pick up the free cheese. It was some federal program, years ago.