We bought a basic package without amenities - a room to live in, based on need, and food to eat, ... This is not about being bathed in luxury - it's to get people out of the Astrodome.
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We will work until we get every displaced citizen into some type of housing.James McIntyre
The governors and their local officials are looking at all these issues. They're working with all the evacuees in these communities to ensure they are incorporated into the community, they're given job assistance and the help they need, ... We have more than 300,000 displaced households, and they have to live somewhere.
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Critics say Carnival deserves to be treated no differently than a hotel housing relief workers under a FEMA contract. Carnival should be contributing to the relief effort just like all other taxpayers are, ... Why should they be singled out for special treatment, just because they've been so good at tax avoidance in the past
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The thing we're happy about is that there wasn't as much loss of life or property damage as there might have been, ... This is still a dangerous situation.
James McIntyre
The bottom line is there are a lot of reasons why things didn't occur out there, and FEMA is a big name so we get a lot of the blame.
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We as a federal government can't come in and just place anything anywhere. This is not a takeover. We have to work within the limitations by state and local officials.
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I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
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