GO big “O”. Oprah’s Angel Network is the Only org. that I will donate to that helps disaster victims. In my opinion, the Red Cross is a SCAM and steals money. They stayed in Gulfport, Ms exactly 5 weeks and disappeared in the middle of the night. Oprah’s program helps with 100% of donations going to victims and Oprah herself pays all administration fees. After 1 year, the Red Cross has ONLY given-up 33% of the Tsunami money that they collected. DISBAN the RC….

- 1goofball

To be honest I feel like f%#$ all of them cause they still haven’t helped me an it’s been exactly 5 months. I was 4 months pregnant when Katrina hit and my baby is very healthy but believe it are not I am not healthy, most people thought it was a joke but now can you still imagine losing everything you own from pictures to love ones being separated from everybody you love and knew. Having to start your life all over sounds like a fairy tale but it really happened. F%#$ then when it did happen they world seem to blame us for our lost. It took most of us our whole life to grow what we had then be sent to school that judges us kids from where we are from, and we be punished for that the students were during what they seen there teachers, and friends do. The problem that I still have is how someone could give over 50,000,0000 people maybe more a time line to find where they feel like home. That’s another reason why theirs so many of us New Orleanians dead or still can’t tell if they are alive. The world is coming to an end in the wrong way.

Signed: a frustrated black woman!!!!!

Admin note: Below are two letter submissions from someone who believes this site is actually run by an insurance company or companies for market research.

Is this true? Nope.

1. A public website bashing one’s own industry for “market research” is a ridiculous idea.
2. This site is run from my home office in Harvey, La.

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Folks:

Have any of you noticed yet that there are ads for INSURANCE COMPANIES scattered all over these pages? Ummm. . . what’s wrong with this picture? These are the same entities that aren’t listening to you now. I can’t help but think that they’re getting an enormous laff at our expense with these comments. I hope I’m wrong. I really do. But check it out. Does anybody besides me see an incongruity with this? I know, somebody’s gonna say it’s ‘market research’. NO! Market research isn’t conducted in forum like this. Market research isn’t conducted on the backs of people who have lost all they had and are trying to get back to their pre-Katrina condition. Market research doesn’t include ignoring the information gathered, even if it’s gathered falsely. Please prove me wrong. If this isn’t an insurance company sponsored site, please state that on the splash page. Thanx . . .

- Richard Caire

Folks, have y’all noticed yet that this is a site that is probably set up and maintained by insurance companies? Look around the pages. What do you see? Ads for INSURANCE COMPANIES. Duh! WHY do you think that might be? I’m not going to belabor the obvious. You’re big boys and girls. You figure it out. THIS IS MARKET RESEARCH! Remember the last line of ‘Soylent Green’? . . . “Soylent Green is. . . PEOPLE!”. Same thing here. We’re all just chips waitin’ for the dip.

- Richard Caire

Is it just me . . .

Or does anyone else find it odd that INSURANCE COMPANIES like State Farm are advertising on this site? Look around the pages, people. They don’t care. They’re rubbing our noses in it even as the complaints flood in. Kinda makes y’ wanna keep payin’ all them high premiums, don’t it? Yeah, it’s ‘ray on them and boo on you. It’s like goin’ to a casino: The odds are always with the house (no pun intended).

- R C

Admin note: The ad space on this site is not actually bought up by insurance companies, or anyone else for that matter. The ads are served by Google based on the content of any particular page. i.e. If I posted a page full of the terms: “Travel”, “Airfare”, “Hotel”, etc. That page’s ad space would be filled with ads related to the travel industry.

FEMA: I wasn’t hurt as much as most, but I did have approx. $40k of damage. Roof, front columns, carpet, shutters, shed, cars, etc. I started working on my house to get back in shape. By the time FEMA came out (3 months later) to check my claim, I had everything fixed, so they denied any claim. I even had receipts showing that I had to go to Florida for pharmacy, gas, food, etc. and that was even denied. FEMA is not my complaint because I Never thought I would get any help from the government anyway! However, my biggest complaint, is the Red Cross. I believe this organization is as crooked as the UN. They did not give us any type of financial help. They have ONLY spent 185 million of the 1.8 billion that was donated. I have never heard from them. I live just off Courthouse Rd. and did not see Red Cross in our neighborhood until DAY 17 (had 1 bag ice and 2 gallons water). Not until DAY 30 did they bring food. The next 8 days, they brought hot lunches and then disappeared. I have not seen any Red Cross person around Gulfport since October 9th. I still see commercials for them asking for donations. Remember what they said just after the hurricane? “We will be here until the Last person is helped!” Get rid of this corrupt junk.

- George