I would like you to see this and read.
May 3, 2007
[recipient address was inserted here]
[recipient name was inserted here],
Please make sure Mr. President Bush reads this !
I would like to know what the excuse is this time for the price of gas
going sky high again. First they blamed it on the storms (hurricanes) now
they are blaming it on the demand. I would like to know why, if the
majority of our oil is imported from foreign countries, how can this be?
We live in Louisiana, one of the states that produces alot of the oil for
the country. But yet we are paying almost $3.00 a gallon. I wouldn't be
complaining if I was getting $100,000.00, $150,000.00 or $780,000.00 (like
the Bushe's) a year. We live on a fixed income and paycheck to paycheck.
The majority of the people in the United States are in the same situation.
We don't have the pleasure of having "fringe benefits" that go with your
jobs. Like car expenses accounts, paid vacations, etc., etc. paid for by
the tax payers. Mr. Bush, you don't have to pay much of anything out of
your pocket, we pay for it. As with most of the politicians in our
Country. When are you going to make youself concerned with what is best
for the common people of this country? Why are you more concerned with
what is going on in other countries? Why do you let YOUR people suffer,
struggle and beg? We were not all born with silver spoons in our mouths
or with the slightest chance of getting half way "up the ladder". What
will it take for changes to be made to make life a little less dramatic
for all of us. We have suffered and struggled enough. Maybe we should
hire Mexicans in place of our politicians because they like to work cheap.
Being they are flocking here to take our jobs. A response from YOU,
personally, would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
This is a copy of a letter we sent to the one sitting government office.
Dear Mr. Representative,
I don't know who you and everyone of the representatives that voted for this ban think you are. I think ya'll need to change your title to House of Rulers, instead of representatives.
What gives ya'll the right to make up laws without the peoples vote? What is happening to our freedom? We don't have much of any left as it is.
I recently quit smoking over a year ago. Not because I had to or because someone made me. I chose to stop on my own. I understand smoking is bad for you, and others around you. But when will ya'll stop trying to tell us fully grown, law abiding adults, how to live?
If ya'll want to stop the "sickness's" from smoking and second hand smoke, then stop the production of tobacco altogether. But oh no, ya'll would never do that. The government makes way too much money from the sales of tobacco. And the other killer, alcohol. Don't hear ya'll trying to stop that either. The government would go totally bankrupt without it.
And considering we just buried my 27 year old nephew because he was drinking and driving, ya'll have your priorities all wrong. A person who smokes or is around smoke has a good chance of living a pretty decent life, to a good age. But a person who drinks and drives, either kills themselves or some innocent people. It is a traumatic death. Something very hard for their loved ones to overcome for a long time. I don't know if you have had someone in your family die like that. My sister is not taking it too well. When a smoker dies, they usually go peacefully.
But back to my subject. I am upset at all these laws that you are making,making hard working law abiding citizens criminals. Any little thing they can make a law on to collect on fines and court fees is just fine with ya'll.
Back to our freedom. We are supposively fighting a useless war in Iraq for our "freedom". How can you honestly send our sons, daughters, fathers and mothers to die for our freedom while ya'll sit here at home and take away ours. It's not about the Iraqi peoples freedom anyway..It's all about the oil.
Any smoker in their right mind will always open their drivers side window while they are smoking, the smoke gets pulled out as they are driving.
I would like to know who will give the police officers, public officials, etc..etc. a ticket? I see police officers all the time without their seatbelts. But let us get caught without it. I see them speeding and making improper turns all the time.
I feel that if ya'll want to tell us how to live and what is right from wrong, being you think "we the people" are too stupid to know better, then you should start paying my bills. Maybe my car insurance, house/flood insurance, life insurance, etc. Maybe take away all the taxes we have to pay for you to tell me how I should be living. I'm 50 years old and have not been in trouble for anything. Now you are going to make a criminal of my wife because she smokes.
How many of ya'll have been to a funeral of a young person that got killed drinking and driving? How many of ya'll have gone to a funeral of someone who smoked? In case you haven't I can tell you the difference. A person who smoked will look pretty much the same as they did before they died. A person killed because of drinking and driving will not look the same as they did the day before. There will be cuts and bruises and heavy makeup used. The damages from drinking far outweigh the damages from smoking or second hand smoke.
I feel you don't really give a damn about the people or the kids. All you care about is the money.
P.S.
This letter is not intended for those few that beleive in the rights of the people. And let this be a reminder of who pays your salary.
Dear Mr. Representative,
I don't know who you and everyone of the representatives that voted for this ban think you are. I think ya'll need to change your title to House of Rulers, instead of representatives.
What gives ya'll the right to make up laws without the peoples vote? What is happening to our freedom? We don't have much of any left as it is.
I recently quit smoking over a year ago. Not because I had to or because someone made me. I chose to stop on my own. I understand smoking is bad for you, and others around you. But when will ya'll stop trying to tell us fully grown, law abiding adults, how to live?
If ya'll want to stop the "sickness's" from smoking and second hand smoke, then stop the production of tobacco altogether. But oh no, ya'll would never do that. The government makes way too much money from the sales of tobacco. And the other killer, alcohol. Don't hear ya'll trying to stop that either. The government would go totally bankrupt without it.
And considering we just buried my 27 year old nephew because he was drinking and driving, ya'll have your priorities all wrong. A person who smokes or is around smoke has a good chance of living a pretty decent life, to a good age. But a person who drinks and drives, either kills themselves or some innocent people. It is a traumatic death. Something very hard for their loved ones to overcome for a long time. I don't know if you have had someone in your family die like that. My sister is not taking it too well. When a smoker dies, they usually go peacefully.
But back to my subject. I am upset at all these laws that you are making,making hard working law abiding citizens criminals. Any little thing they can make a law on to collect on fines and court fees is just fine with ya'll.
Back to our freedom. We are supposively fighting a useless war in Iraq for our "freedom". How can you honestly send our sons, daughters, fathers and mothers to die for our freedom while ya'll sit here at home and take away ours. It's not about the Iraqi peoples freedom anyway..It's all about the oil.
Any smoker in their right mind will always open their drivers side window while they are smoking, the smoke gets pulled out as they are driving.
I would like to know who will give the police officers, public officials, etc..etc. a ticket? I see police officers all the time without their seatbelts. But let us get caught without it. I see them speeding and making improper turns all the time.
I feel that if ya'll want to tell us how to live and what is right from wrong, being you think "we the people" are too stupid to know better, then you should start paying my bills. Maybe my car insurance, house/flood insurance, life insurance, etc. Maybe take away all the taxes we have to pay for you to tell me how I should be living. I'm 50 years old and have not been in trouble for anything. Now you are going to make a criminal of my wife because she smokes.
How many of ya'll have been to a funeral of a young person that got killed drinking and driving? How many of ya'll have gone to a funeral of someone who smoked? In case you haven't I can tell you the difference. A person who smoked will look pretty much the same as they did before they died. A person killed because of drinking and driving will not look the same as they did the day before. There will be cuts and bruises and heavy makeup used. The damages from drinking far outweigh the damages from smoking or second hand smoke.
I feel you don't really give a damn about the people or the kids. All you care about is the money.
P.S.
This letter is not intended for those few that beleive in the rights of the people. And let this be a reminder of who pays your salary.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Why?
To Everyone Concerned,
I put my plywood sign out at the front of our street a couple days after we flooded from Hurrican Rita. It read in big red letters, "Have we been forgotten".
I feel we have been forgotten of by all forms of govenment for long enough. When we flooded for Hurrican Juan 21 years ago in October, they did nothing. All this time they have done nothing but study after study. Now that we have flooded again, they want to try to do something that will take 15-20 years to do.
I feel that the people of South Louisiana have been forgotten about when it comes to getting anything from the State or Federal Government.
We have been through enough. We have waited too long. With the increase in the price for gas, insurance, lumber, utilities, groceries, etc. etc., how much more do the want from us. When we can't get much of anything from them.
Now they want to burden us with this one cent sales tax for our levees. I don't feel that the money will be spent on our levees and that the HNC lock is only going to protect the west side of Houma. That water will have to go somewhere.
It seems to be a loosing battle. We are undecided if we want to sell out or stay and put up with it. We shouldn't have to be making that decision. We cannot afford to move, yet we cannot physically or mentally keep going though this.
I feel that if the Federal Government can send/spend money in Iraq, Afganistan, Indonesia, etc.,etc., then they can give us the money to build the levees and locks to protect us. Why do we have to fight tooth and nail to get anything from the government when all these other countries do nothing for us and they sure don't pay their fair share of any taxes. They get a handout and we have to beg.
I don't think President Bush even cares about what happens to the people of South Louisiana. His oil buddies are more important. He will never walk in our shoes or worry about any of the things we have to worry about.
I don't know if my letters are getting through to anyone, but as long as the government keeps wasting our money I will keep wasting my brain cells and my wifes time writing these letters.
To Everyone Concerned,
I put my plywood sign out at the front of our street a couple days after we flooded from Hurrican Rita. It read in big red letters, "Have we been forgotten".
I feel we have been forgotten of by all forms of govenment for long enough. When we flooded for Hurrican Juan 21 years ago in October, they did nothing. All this time they have done nothing but study after study. Now that we have flooded again, they want to try to do something that will take 15-20 years to do.
I feel that the people of South Louisiana have been forgotten about when it comes to getting anything from the State or Federal Government.
We have been through enough. We have waited too long. With the increase in the price for gas, insurance, lumber, utilities, groceries, etc. etc., how much more do the want from us. When we can't get much of anything from them.
Now they want to burden us with this one cent sales tax for our levees. I don't feel that the money will be spent on our levees and that the HNC lock is only going to protect the west side of Houma. That water will have to go somewhere.
It seems to be a loosing battle. We are undecided if we want to sell out or stay and put up with it. We shouldn't have to be making that decision. We cannot afford to move, yet we cannot physically or mentally keep going though this.
I feel that if the Federal Government can send/spend money in Iraq, Afganistan, Indonesia, etc.,etc., then they can give us the money to build the levees and locks to protect us. Why do we have to fight tooth and nail to get anything from the government when all these other countries do nothing for us and they sure don't pay their fair share of any taxes. They get a handout and we have to beg.
I don't think President Bush even cares about what happens to the people of South Louisiana. His oil buddies are more important. He will never walk in our shoes or worry about any of the things we have to worry about.
I don't know if my letters are getting through to anyone, but as long as the government keeps wasting our money I will keep wasting my brain cells and my wifes time writing these letters.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
I like you to check this out.
I will never understand why the people are letting this happen. I keep writing letters and posting messages and it's getting us nowhere. I send letters to all the state reps even the President, not one of them replies to me.
This link is to an article that I think sums up our rights issue pretty good. Please read:
: http://www.houmatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060805/OPINION/608040335/1031/OPINION03
To me this is only a money matter, not a health issue. The government wants to get every nichol and dime out of law abiding citizens that they can. By making laws like this thats what they are doing. If you are not a criminal they will make you one. What will be next?
I will never understand why the people are letting this happen. I keep writing letters and posting messages and it's getting us nowhere. I send letters to all the state reps even the President, not one of them replies to me.
This link is to an article that I think sums up our rights issue pretty good. Please read:
: http://www.houmatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060805/OPINION/608040335/1031/OPINION03
To me this is only a money matter, not a health issue. The government wants to get every nichol and dime out of law abiding citizens that they can. By making laws like this thats what they are doing. If you are not a criminal they will make you one. What will be next?
They waste, we pay
Need a trip to hawaii, why not?
Need a new truck, why not? tax payers are
paying the bill.
Need a house, need a camp, need boat,need a big pay check,why not?tax payers are paying, what else is the tax payers paying for?
This was in the news paper as you can see back in May.
I like to say this we don't need somebody that sit on there ass talking about
doing work, we need somebody that will do the work.
They like to make cuts and take away jobs from people that do work,when it comes
to them all they look for is more money for sitting on there ass.
Terrebonne Parish looks to help only the rich.
Louisiana Press Association's Newspaper of the Year | May 11, 2005
April 27. 2005 3:13PM
Parish Council takes trips; others lose jobs
How can the Terrebonne Parish Council afford to go to Hawaii but can not afford to send kids to a summer camp along with saying that the parish is in a big budget cut right now?
They cut 18 firefighters and still today we get threats about more cuts. Parish Administrator Barry Blackwell said that the cuts were just as even with the Police Department, but we’ve yet to see it. The parish administrator has been cutting everyone under the sun, and now they do some crazy stuff like this. They even want a raise.
Well, we want our fire department positions back, but that will not happen. I guess the parish officials will take another trip at our expense.
Lanny -------
Houma
Need a trip to hawaii, why not?
Need a new truck, why not? tax payers are
paying the bill.
Need a house, need a camp, need boat,need a big pay check,why not?tax payers are paying, what else is the tax payers paying for?
This was in the news paper as you can see back in May.
I like to say this we don't need somebody that sit on there ass talking about
doing work, we need somebody that will do the work.
They like to make cuts and take away jobs from people that do work,when it comes
to them all they look for is more money for sitting on there ass.
Terrebonne Parish looks to help only the rich.
Louisiana Press Association's Newspaper of the Year | May 11, 2005
April 27. 2005 3:13PM
Parish Council takes trips; others lose jobs
How can the Terrebonne Parish Council afford to go to Hawaii but can not afford to send kids to a summer camp along with saying that the parish is in a big budget cut right now?
They cut 18 firefighters and still today we get threats about more cuts. Parish Administrator Barry Blackwell said that the cuts were just as even with the Police Department, but we’ve yet to see it. The parish administrator has been cutting everyone under the sun, and now they do some crazy stuff like this. They even want a raise.
Well, we want our fire department positions back, but that will not happen. I guess the parish officials will take another trip at our expense.
Lanny -------
Houma
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Terrebonne Parish government
I am writing concerning the lock they are planning on putting in the Houma Navagational Canal. I do not feel that this will benefit the whole parish. I feel they are putting it where it will only benefit the City of Houma itself and not the low lying areas that flood.
I feel that the Parish should have done something 20 years ago when we flooded for Hurricane Juan. Instead they felt that it was more inportant to have a Civic Center, the Bank One building, and a state of the art Library. The highest cell phone bills and trips to Hawaii. I live in Upper Little Caillou. We are only 7 miles from Prospect St. We flooded for Juan and had one foot of water in our home then. This time, for Rita, we had 3 feet in our home. What about the people in Montegut that have flooded four times in the past 20 years? How is this lock going to protect them?
Every time the Parish of Terrebonne wants something they pass a tax. They put the cost on the tax payers. Who do we pass the cost onto? Who do we pass the cost of rebuilding our homes on to? Who do we pass the cost of replacing all our funiture and appliances on to? Not to mention all the things we lost that cannot be replaced. All we get is higher insurance cost and wishfull thinking that it won't happen again.
I feel that they are only looking to protect the city of Houma, especially the west side, and all the fancy camps along side the deep water channel, down Dularge and the condo's across from the Civic Center. They must not let Martin Luther King Blvd. or Hwy 311 flood. But who cares about us dumb coonass's down the bayou. The hard working, low and middle income families who cannot afford the insurance and cannot afford to move either. We are expendable. But they sure want our tax money.
Why don't you tax the oil companies that are using the Navigational Canal? We are taxed enough and our money is not being spent as it should. Terrebonne Parish should have gotten it's priorities straight a long time ago. We cannot even get the parish to fix our school bus turnaround much less protect us from flooding again.
Terrebonne Parish Government keeps forgetting who they work for? They work for us, the tax payers. We pay their salary. We pay for all their fringe benefits. Yet we keep getting the short end of the stick.
I am writing concerning the lock they are planning on putting in the Houma Navagational Canal. I do not feel that this will benefit the whole parish. I feel they are putting it where it will only benefit the City of Houma itself and not the low lying areas that flood.
I feel that the Parish should have done something 20 years ago when we flooded for Hurricane Juan. Instead they felt that it was more inportant to have a Civic Center, the Bank One building, and a state of the art Library. The highest cell phone bills and trips to Hawaii. I live in Upper Little Caillou. We are only 7 miles from Prospect St. We flooded for Juan and had one foot of water in our home then. This time, for Rita, we had 3 feet in our home. What about the people in Montegut that have flooded four times in the past 20 years? How is this lock going to protect them?
Every time the Parish of Terrebonne wants something they pass a tax. They put the cost on the tax payers. Who do we pass the cost onto? Who do we pass the cost of rebuilding our homes on to? Who do we pass the cost of replacing all our funiture and appliances on to? Not to mention all the things we lost that cannot be replaced. All we get is higher insurance cost and wishfull thinking that it won't happen again.
I feel that they are only looking to protect the city of Houma, especially the west side, and all the fancy camps along side the deep water channel, down Dularge and the condo's across from the Civic Center. They must not let Martin Luther King Blvd. or Hwy 311 flood. But who cares about us dumb coonass's down the bayou. The hard working, low and middle income families who cannot afford the insurance and cannot afford to move either. We are expendable. But they sure want our tax money.
Why don't you tax the oil companies that are using the Navigational Canal? We are taxed enough and our money is not being spent as it should. Terrebonne Parish should have gotten it's priorities straight a long time ago. We cannot even get the parish to fix our school bus turnaround much less protect us from flooding again.
Terrebonne Parish Government keeps forgetting who they work for? They work for us, the tax payers. We pay their salary. We pay for all their fringe benefits. Yet we keep getting the short end of the stick.
Saturday, July 08, 2006
I like you people to take a look at this.
Take a look at these pic,we took for the flood.
This is what we got but it was a lot wrost in other parts
of south Louisiana.
You know, We can send money to other countrys but
who check to see where the money is going
but when it comes to us we have to go to so much bullshit and that isn't no lie
Sunday, June 25, 2006
I like you to read this.
Louisiana at it's best.
Don't all these politicians have anything better to do with their time than make all kinds of stupid laws that infringe on the rights of the people? This law is just another dollar in the pockets of the criminal justice system. Making crimianls out of law abiding citizens. Smoking is legal (freedom of choice). It's only going to give the cops another reason to stop women and try to seduce them. It's going to take their time away from tracking down the real crimials. Who is going to give the cops a ticket? They break the laws all the time. Or is it they lost their camp down the bayou and need more money for a pay raise to fix it?
How much more can you squeeze out of the people?
I'm sure the Governor will not read this email because she has never responded to a single one I have sent her. But this will be sent to every Congressman and Senator in Louisian and posted on as many web sites as I can.
If you are so concerned about our children, why aren't you fighting tooth and nail to get us the money we need to fix our levees so our children don't have to worry about having to move away because our land is washing away. You are more concerned with who's smoking where? This is not the time to be wasting time on such a freedom of choice issue.
Governor Blanco, you seem to only be worried about New Orleans. What about us in Terrebonne Parish? Do we not exist? We flooded just like New Orleans. We are struggling to fix our homes as best we can. Terrebonne Parish floods every time there is a storm to our west. Not once in 75-80 years like New Orleans.. Our lower part of the parish floods with a South wind. We have been fighting for years and years and getting no where.
If they have so much time to waist then why don't they come here and help fix our house. Instead of having volunteers from out of state coming to do it.
Roy
Louisiana at it's best.
Don't all these politicians have anything better to do with their time than make all kinds of stupid laws that infringe on the rights of the people? This law is just another dollar in the pockets of the criminal justice system. Making crimianls out of law abiding citizens. Smoking is legal (freedom of choice). It's only going to give the cops another reason to stop women and try to seduce them. It's going to take their time away from tracking down the real crimials. Who is going to give the cops a ticket? They break the laws all the time. Or is it they lost their camp down the bayou and need more money for a pay raise to fix it?
How much more can you squeeze out of the people?
I'm sure the Governor will not read this email because she has never responded to a single one I have sent her. But this will be sent to every Congressman and Senator in Louisian and posted on as many web sites as I can.
If you are so concerned about our children, why aren't you fighting tooth and nail to get us the money we need to fix our levees so our children don't have to worry about having to move away because our land is washing away. You are more concerned with who's smoking where? This is not the time to be wasting time on such a freedom of choice issue.
Governor Blanco, you seem to only be worried about New Orleans. What about us in Terrebonne Parish? Do we not exist? We flooded just like New Orleans. We are struggling to fix our homes as best we can. Terrebonne Parish floods every time there is a storm to our west. Not once in 75-80 years like New Orleans.. Our lower part of the parish floods with a South wind. We have been fighting for years and years and getting no where.
If they have so much time to waist then why don't they come here and help fix our house. Instead of having volunteers from out of state coming to do it.
Roy
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Is this a good one.
Can anyone tell me what is going to happen if the price of cigarettes keeps going up? I feel this is what will happen.
Besides getting people to quit because they cannot afford it, it will cause more people to start stealing them. Or stealing anything they can to sell to buy a pack.
Is this what the Federal, State, and Local governments are banking on? That way they will be able to put more people in jail and collect on the fines and fees. So they will have more "trustees' " to pick up trash on the side the roads?
Are maybe they don't want to say it free labor
is slave labor and by pasting them law that is what they are doing.
One more thing we have to obey the Laws but they don't.
You sure don't hear them talking about going up on the tax for alcohol and that kills more people than smoking!
I have been emailing Senators and Representatives for a long time now and none of them EVER answer my questions.
Maybe someone can shed some light on my concerns.
Roy Rowley
Can anyone tell me what is going to happen if the price of cigarettes keeps going up? I feel this is what will happen.
Besides getting people to quit because they cannot afford it, it will cause more people to start stealing them. Or stealing anything they can to sell to buy a pack.
Is this what the Federal, State, and Local governments are banking on? That way they will be able to put more people in jail and collect on the fines and fees. So they will have more "trustees' " to pick up trash on the side the roads?
Are maybe they don't want to say it free labor
is slave labor and by pasting them law that is what they are doing.
One more thing we have to obey the Laws but they don't.
You sure don't hear them talking about going up on the tax for alcohol and that kills more people than smoking!
I have been emailing Senators and Representatives for a long time now and none of them EVER answer my questions.
Maybe someone can shed some light on my concerns.
Roy Rowley
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
I like you to check this out.
Sender's Name: Roy ROWLEY
Message:
I would like to know how many people can tell me what would happen if you take 10 people and put them in a
room with 10 smokers. How many will die?
Now If you to take 10 people put them in a room with a car or a truck running and tell me how many will die.
Ok one more time. You take 10 people stand them in a room and you get somebody with a second hand gun and shoot at them,(they may get lucky, they may not ) What you think.
Is going to happen?
Another one, if you take 10 people stand them up in a line facing a car or a truck with somebody that has been drinking driving. Can somebody tell what can happen?
I'd like to say I don't have anything bad to say if you drink at home.
There are little kids out there on the road don't kill them. thanks
Now if you send our kids, Fathers, Mothers,etc, to war, How many do you think will die?
If you think that only one will die,..........NOT....... Not going to happen.
So now with this being said I hope you can understand where I'M coming from.
There is a lot of other things that can kill
but having the government looking to make more money from you because of it is sad.
I think some of them look to do it just to see how much power they have telling people what they can or cannot do....... So I like to say this I'm not a kid I'm going to be 51 years old and I pay taxes and my kids pay taxes.
Thank you for your time.
Roy Rowley
Sender's Name: Roy ROWLEY
Message:
I would like to know how many people can tell me what would happen if you take 10 people and put them in a
room with 10 smokers. How many will die?
Now If you to take 10 people put them in a room with a car or a truck running and tell me how many will die.
Ok one more time. You take 10 people stand them in a room and you get somebody with a second hand gun and shoot at them,(they may get lucky, they may not ) What you think.
Is going to happen?
Another one, if you take 10 people stand them up in a line facing a car or a truck with somebody that has been drinking driving. Can somebody tell what can happen?
I'd like to say I don't have anything bad to say if you drink at home.
There are little kids out there on the road don't kill them. thanks
Now if you send our kids, Fathers, Mothers,etc, to war, How many do you think will die?
If you think that only one will die,..........NOT....... Not going to happen.
So now with this being said I hope you can understand where I'M coming from.
There is a lot of other things that can kill
but having the government looking to make more money from you because of it is sad.
I think some of them look to do it just to see how much power they have telling people what they can or cannot do....... So I like to say this I'm not a kid I'm going to be 51 years old and I pay taxes and my kids pay taxes.
Thank you for your time.
Roy Rowley
Friday, May 12, 2006
Louisiana Dictators
Dear Mr. Representative,
I don't know who you and everyone of the representatives that voted for this ban think you are. I think ya'll need to change your title to House of Rulers, instead of representatives.
What gives ya'll the right to make up laws without the peoples vote? What is happening to our freedom? We don't have much of any left as it is.
I recently quit smoking over a year ago. Not because I had to or because someone made me. I chose to stop on my own. I understand smoking is bad for you, and others around you. But when will ya'll stop trying to tell us fully grown, law abiding adults, how to live?
If ya'll want to stop the "sickness's" from smoking and second hand smoke, then stop the production of tobacco altogether. But oh no, ya'll would never do that. The government makes way too much money from the sales of tobacco. And the other killer, alcohol. Don't hear ya'll trying to stop that either. The government would go totally bankrupt without it.
And considering we just buried my 27 year old nephew because he was drinking and driving, ya'll have your priorities all wrong. A person who smokes or is around smoke has a good chance of living a pretty decent life, to a good age. But a person who drinks and drives, either kills themselves or some innocent people. It is a traumatic death. Something very hard for their loved ones to overcome for a long time. I don't know if you have had someone in your family die like that. My sister is not taking it too well. When a smoker dies, they us usually go peacefully.
But back to my subject. I am upset at all these laws that are making hard working, law abiding citizens criminals. Any little thing they can make a law on to collect on fines and court fees is just fine with ya'll.
Back to our freedom. We are supposively fighting a useless war in Iraq for our "freedom". How can you honestly send our sons, daughters, fathers and mothers to die for our freedom while ya'll sit here at home and take away ours. It's not about the Iraqi peoples freedom anyway..It's all about the oil.
Any smoker in their right mind will always open their drivers side window while they are smoking, the smoke gets pulled out as they are driving.
I would like to know who will give the police officers, public officials, etc..etc. a ticket? I see police officers all the time without their seatbelts. But let us get caught without it. I see them speeding and making improper turns all the time.
I feel that if ya'll want to tell us how to live and what is right from wrong, being you think "we the people" are too stupid to know better, then you should start paying my bills. Maybe my car insurance, house/flood insurance, life insurance, etc. Maybe take away all the taxes we have to pay for you to tell me how I should be living. I'm 50 years old and have not been in trouble for anything. Now you are going to make a criminal of my wife because she smokes.
How many of ya'll have been to a funeral of a young person that got killed drinking and driving? How many of ya'll have gone to a funeral of someone who smoked? In case you haven't I can tell you the difference. A person who smoked will look pretty much the same as they did before they died. A person killed because of drinking and driving will not look the same as they did the day before. There will be cuts and bruises and heavy makeup used. The damages from drinking far outweigh the damages from smoking or second hand smoke.
I feel you don't really give a damn about the people or the kids. All you care about is the money.
Sincerely yours,
Dear Mr. Representative,
I don't know who you and everyone of the representatives that voted for this ban think you are. I think ya'll need to change your title to House of Rulers, instead of representatives.
What gives ya'll the right to make up laws without the peoples vote? What is happening to our freedom? We don't have much of any left as it is.
I recently quit smoking over a year ago. Not because I had to or because someone made me. I chose to stop on my own. I understand smoking is bad for you, and others around you. But when will ya'll stop trying to tell us fully grown, law abiding adults, how to live?
If ya'll want to stop the "sickness's" from smoking and second hand smoke, then stop the production of tobacco altogether. But oh no, ya'll would never do that. The government makes way too much money from the sales of tobacco. And the other killer, alcohol. Don't hear ya'll trying to stop that either. The government would go totally bankrupt without it.
And considering we just buried my 27 year old nephew because he was drinking and driving, ya'll have your priorities all wrong. A person who smokes or is around smoke has a good chance of living a pretty decent life, to a good age. But a person who drinks and drives, either kills themselves or some innocent people. It is a traumatic death. Something very hard for their loved ones to overcome for a long time. I don't know if you have had someone in your family die like that. My sister is not taking it too well. When a smoker dies, they us usually go peacefully.
But back to my subject. I am upset at all these laws that are making hard working, law abiding citizens criminals. Any little thing they can make a law on to collect on fines and court fees is just fine with ya'll.
Back to our freedom. We are supposively fighting a useless war in Iraq for our "freedom". How can you honestly send our sons, daughters, fathers and mothers to die for our freedom while ya'll sit here at home and take away ours. It's not about the Iraqi peoples freedom anyway..It's all about the oil.
Any smoker in their right mind will always open their drivers side window while they are smoking, the smoke gets pulled out as they are driving.
I would like to know who will give the police officers, public officials, etc..etc. a ticket? I see police officers all the time without their seatbelts. But let us get caught without it. I see them speeding and making improper turns all the time.
I feel that if ya'll want to tell us how to live and what is right from wrong, being you think "we the people" are too stupid to know better, then you should start paying my bills. Maybe my car insurance, house/flood insurance, life insurance, etc. Maybe take away all the taxes we have to pay for you to tell me how I should be living. I'm 50 years old and have not been in trouble for anything. Now you are going to make a criminal of my wife because she smokes.
How many of ya'll have been to a funeral of a young person that got killed drinking and driving? How many of ya'll have gone to a funeral of someone who smoked? In case you haven't I can tell you the difference. A person who smoked will look pretty much the same as they did before they died. A person killed because of drinking and driving will not look the same as they did the day before. There will be cuts and bruises and heavy makeup used. The damages from drinking far outweigh the damages from smoking or second hand smoke.
I feel you don't really give a damn about the people or the kids. All you care about is the money.
Sincerely yours,
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
This letter is in red because of the blood that was lost when my nephew was kill this morning.
They say smoking kills will so does alcohol.
Antoine C Verret died this morining because of it. At 3;29 am monday he lost control of his car and I'm sorry to say but he may have been drinking.
So with this in mind, I would like to say that smoking didn't have anything to do with it.
This is what is left of his car.
The loss of this young man, may or may not mean any thing to some people, and what he did was wrong. But this is what he got for doing it.
What he got for doing this (he will not do any more).
But the ones selling it will go on.
So the taxs that the state gets is more important than life.
Maybe one day your kids will find out what Alcohol can do to them.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
I like you to read this.
outrageous gas prices
I am writing to you concerning the extremely high gas prices we are paying. I don't know about ya'll but I don't live on a $100,000.00 a year salary. No where near that. President Bush and all the other Senators and State Representatives in Washington and Baton Rouge make that or even more. They don't feel the bite in their wallet when they fill up their vehicles. They fill up their vehicles at the tax payers expense anyway. We live on less than $20,000.00 a year. My wife works and I'm on disability. We have family that have to live on that much or less. My Mom is stuggling since my Dad passed away. My Mother-in-law is stuggling since her husband died. It makes it real hard for a person working a minimum wage job to be able to afford to even go back and forth to work.
The government claims it's because of the storms that hit the Gulf. But all we hear about is that we are so dependent on foreign oil. If we were so dependent on foreign oil then why do they want to blame it on the loss of production in the Gulf? If the U.S. Government would stay out of the foreign countries business than we wouldn't have to worry about them cutting us off. They have us where they want us. If the Govenment would stop controlling the flow of oil from the Gulf States, there wouldn't be a shortage or a reason for oil to be so expensive. The Gulf States produce the most oil, but we suffer the most. Why was the U. S. Government paying $1.50 a gallon and selling it to the Iraqi's for .05 cents a gallon???? What made them more important than our own people?
Business's can pass their rising cost onto us, the consumers. But who do we pass the cost onto?
With the HIGH cost of gas, insurance, utilities, groceries, etc. How much more do you think you can squeeze out of us less fortunate people.
I just read a letter written by Johnny Adriani, a candidate in the New Orleans mayor race. Even though he is discussing the levee's in New Orleans he makes a very good point that the U. S. Government is more concerned with a Democratic Government in Iraq and the illegal immagrants than for it's own citizens. Check the letter out yourself.....
: http://www.bayoubuzz.com/boards/philboard_read.asp?id=1646
I know ya'll probably don't like what I have to say, but our tax dollars are paying your salary and your retirement benefits. Your kids education, your camp down the bayou, your luxury vehicles, million dollar mansions...etc..etc..etc.
We are here in South Louisiana trying to recover from two major disasters and ya'll can't find any way to help us with the extra burden of the the gas prices? It's not enough we have to pay high prices for the lumber and appliances and furniture that we have to replace, lets get them on the gas too.
Sincerly,
outrageous gas prices
I am writing to you concerning the extremely high gas prices we are paying. I don't know about ya'll but I don't live on a $100,000.00 a year salary. No where near that. President Bush and all the other Senators and State Representatives in Washington and Baton Rouge make that or even more. They don't feel the bite in their wallet when they fill up their vehicles. They fill up their vehicles at the tax payers expense anyway. We live on less than $20,000.00 a year. My wife works and I'm on disability. We have family that have to live on that much or less. My Mom is stuggling since my Dad passed away. My Mother-in-law is stuggling since her husband died. It makes it real hard for a person working a minimum wage job to be able to afford to even go back and forth to work.
The government claims it's because of the storms that hit the Gulf. But all we hear about is that we are so dependent on foreign oil. If we were so dependent on foreign oil then why do they want to blame it on the loss of production in the Gulf? If the U.S. Government would stay out of the foreign countries business than we wouldn't have to worry about them cutting us off. They have us where they want us. If the Govenment would stop controlling the flow of oil from the Gulf States, there wouldn't be a shortage or a reason for oil to be so expensive. The Gulf States produce the most oil, but we suffer the most. Why was the U. S. Government paying $1.50 a gallon and selling it to the Iraqi's for .05 cents a gallon???? What made them more important than our own people?
Business's can pass their rising cost onto us, the consumers. But who do we pass the cost onto?
With the HIGH cost of gas, insurance, utilities, groceries, etc. How much more do you think you can squeeze out of us less fortunate people.
I just read a letter written by Johnny Adriani, a candidate in the New Orleans mayor race. Even though he is discussing the levee's in New Orleans he makes a very good point that the U. S. Government is more concerned with a Democratic Government in Iraq and the illegal immagrants than for it's own citizens. Check the letter out yourself.....
: http://www.bayoubuzz.com/boards/philboard_read.asp?id=1646
I know ya'll probably don't like what I have to say, but our tax dollars are paying your salary and your retirement benefits. Your kids education, your camp down the bayou, your luxury vehicles, million dollar mansions...etc..etc..etc.
We are here in South Louisiana trying to recover from two major disasters and ya'll can't find any way to help us with the extra burden of the the gas prices? It's not enough we have to pay high prices for the lumber and appliances and furniture that we have to replace, lets get them on the gas too.
Sincerly,
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
I'm desperately looking for someone willing to donate (or sell cheap) an old truck. I have a 1980 Ford F100 that is on it's last leg. It looks like crap but kinda still gets me where I want to go...to an extent. My wife thinks I love my truck more than I love her...hum....she hates it and says it has to go. It don't have to be in the best of condition but I'm looking for one that doesn't have much rust and no holes in the floor boards...must have matching dash and seats...widows that don't rattle and a tail gate that opens easily...and one that she can drive without the cops thinking she's drunk (she don't drink)...she even threatens to put a paper bag over her head when she rides with me. SHe said she is going to bury me in it too, after she gets it smashed into one of those square shapes...lol
Please help me !!
This is it.
Friday, March 31, 2006
Please read....
This is a letter I received from FEMA. They feel like they have given me so much money. They are wasting more money than they are giving to the people who lost so much. THey are paying the people working for them more money in a month than they give to us. I had to buy new tools to fix my house myself because I lost all my tools in the flood and the contractor wanted $69,000.00 to fix my house.Our damages were estimated over $45,000.00 by our insuance company. FEMA only gave us $11,000.00 for contents,loosing everything under 3 feet in my house. Not counting everyting we lost that was outside and in our shed. The bank is holding $12,000.00 until the house is 90% complete. How are we suppose to pay someone to help me? Sometimes I feel like giveing up, not knowing if it will happen again next hurricane season. I know some people who have received more money from FEMA that had very little damages and didn't loose nearly what we lost.
I'm hurting and we are tired. But what are we suppose to do?
Dear Ms. Rowley,
Your case has been reviewed and you are not eligible for home repair from FEMA. Your insurance settlement is $32,200.00 and the FEMA maximum grant is $26,200.00 therefore you are ineligible for assistance with home repair.
This does not include assistance for rental if you are unable to stay in your home while repairs are made.
The following documentation will be required Recertification for requesting continuing Rental Assistance:
1) A letter from you stating why you have a continued need for Rental Assistance
2) A submission from you outlining a realistic Housing Plan to indicate your plans for self sufficiency
3) Documentation of appropriate use of previous Rental Assistance, i.e. verifiable rental receipts with the landlord's contact information
If you should you have additional questions about your registration you can also call FEMA’s toll-free helpline number at 1-800-621-3362.
Thank you for your inquiry.
Connie ID#7384
This is a letter I received from FEMA. They feel like they have given me so much money. They are wasting more money than they are giving to the people who lost so much. THey are paying the people working for them more money in a month than they give to us. I had to buy new tools to fix my house myself because I lost all my tools in the flood and the contractor wanted $69,000.00 to fix my house.Our damages were estimated over $45,000.00 by our insuance company. FEMA only gave us $11,000.00 for contents,loosing everything under 3 feet in my house. Not counting everyting we lost that was outside and in our shed. The bank is holding $12,000.00 until the house is 90% complete. How are we suppose to pay someone to help me? Sometimes I feel like giveing up, not knowing if it will happen again next hurricane season. I know some people who have received more money from FEMA that had very little damages and didn't loose nearly what we lost.
I'm hurting and we are tired. But what are we suppose to do?
Dear Ms. Rowley,
Your case has been reviewed and you are not eligible for home repair from FEMA. Your insurance settlement is $32,200.00 and the FEMA maximum grant is $26,200.00 therefore you are ineligible for assistance with home repair.
This does not include assistance for rental if you are unable to stay in your home while repairs are made.
The following documentation will be required Recertification for requesting continuing Rental Assistance:
1) A letter from you stating why you have a continued need for Rental Assistance
2) A submission from you outlining a realistic Housing Plan to indicate your plans for self sufficiency
3) Documentation of appropriate use of previous Rental Assistance, i.e. verifiable rental receipts with the landlord's contact information
If you should you have additional questions about your registration you can also call FEMA’s toll-free helpline number at 1-800-621-3362.
Thank you for your inquiry.
Connie ID#7384
Saturday, March 25, 2006
I like you to read this
To All it May Concern,
We received another letter from FEMA today. They are denying us for any other assistance. We were told that FEMA was going to cover what our insurance didn't. We had almost $45,000.00 in damages and only had $32,000.00 in insurance, which didn't cover our contents. We were told that FEMA would cover the differance, which is $13,000.00. When we called about the letter, we were told that they never received a settlement letter from our insurance company. We sent them everything we had received from the insurance company. We were never told we needed a settlement letter. We never even received one. We received a claim summary and we sent that to FEMA. It states on there how much we received from the insurance company. It also shows how much we had in damages.
What upsets me most is that we personally know people who are getting money left and right from FEMA and had little damages. We had almost three feet of water in our house. We know of people who lied their butts off to get money from FEMA and they got it. We are not lying about anything and are having to go through 3 kinds of hell to get anything. We got $32,000.00 from our insurance but the bank is holding $12,000.00 until the house is 90 % complete. We have done some of the house with the $20,000.00 but funds are getting low and the bank won't give us the rest until then. We had a contractor come out and give us an estimate. They wanted $69,000.00. What are we suppose to do?
I know a lot of people lost everything they own and don't even have a house to go home to. We flooded just the same. Is FEMA going to do the same to them just because they had insurance?
How many letters am I going to have to send before I get any answers? I send and send and send, but no one answers my questions. I keep getting the run around.
Any response would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You,
Roy Rowley
PS Maybe they need to see this pictrue so that they know what high water is.
And this is my house
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
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