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transhttp://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-fema17jun17,0,4807430.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials
"FEMA did mismanage Katrina relief, but it's wrong to blame victims for spending irresponsibly. MOVE OVER, RECKLESS CONSUMERS. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has outdone your irresponsible spending by racking up a debit card bill so outrageous it could have been created using Mad Libs. Sex-change operations, vacations to the Dominican Republic and wild nights at strip clubs were all bought on the government's dime by both con artists and legitimate victims of Hurricane Katrina. But try to keep that knee from jerking — although FEMA's oversight was lacking, wasted money is an inevitable byproduct of providing rapid emergency assistance...."
Whether or not you agree with the article's opinion on whether or not "it's wrong to blame victims for spending irresponsibly" is besides my point of this post... I'm outraged by the opinion of listing sex change operations right along the lines with "vacations to the Dominican Republic and wild nights at strip clubs". While it's possible that SOMEBODY out there might have gotten a sex change operation on a whim, the editorial's opinion strictly perpetuates the badness that follows the transgendered community as a whole.
...and THAT is truly unfair for a major publication such as the L.A. Times.
"FEMA did mismanage Katrina relief, but it's wrong to blame victims for spending irresponsibly. MOVE OVER, RECKLESS CONSUMERS. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has outdone your irresponsible spending by racking up a debit card bill so outrageous it could have been created using Mad Libs. Sex-change operations, vacations to the Dominican Republic and wild nights at strip clubs were all bought on the government's dime by both con artists and legitimate victims of Hurricane Katrina. But try to keep that knee from jerking — although FEMA's oversight was lacking, wasted money is an inevitable byproduct of providing rapid emergency assistance...."
Whether or not you agree with the article's opinion on whether or not "it's wrong to blame victims for spending irresponsibly" is besides my point of this post... I'm outraged by the opinion of listing sex change operations right along the lines with "vacations to the Dominican Republic and wild nights at strip clubs". While it's possible that SOMEBODY out there might have gotten a sex change operation on a whim, the editorial's opinion strictly perpetuates the badness that follows the transgendered community as a whole.
...and THAT is truly unfair for a major publication such as the L.A. Times.