Re: Shucks, let's indemnify the entire RV Industry

It continues to amaze me how ungrateful so many in our society really are. My company was down in the New Orleans area days after Kritana and then Rita hit. I didn't hear not one person state they didn't want a trailer to live in. Nor did I hear anyone say, no just give me a tent since it at least offer some shelter. If we survey the mass amount of those who lived in the trailers, we will find that their contrubition to our econemy was minable if that. It's a same that some people when faced with nothing over their heads can then sue in hopes of getting the golden cow. This proves that our country and the alot of it's people are "I" people, not "We" people. What ever happened to neighbors helping heighbors?

Re: Shucks, let's indemnify the entire RV Industry

Funny how no one in IA. WI. IL. IN. or MO. Have cried for lack of help from the Gov. It must be the value system that we have in the midwest or Lack of it in LA. If you have your hand out all the time I guess you just think the world owe's you. All I can say is I am glad I live in the Midwest. I bet they will be asking for help again if they get hit again. But will the RV Industry help?

Re: Shucks, let's indemnify the entire RV Industry

One of the many mentors in my life was fond of an old saying that goes like this. To quote "You can never close the net tight enough to keep the slippery eels from slipping out". Such is the way with FEMA. I was also one of the first hand witnesses of the ineptness of FEMA servants during the Katrina disaster. Never did I see such lack of orgainization in my life.

I watched wide-eyed as folks with FEMA IDs walked around passing out cash cards with $100 dollar valuation to folks who did not have any way to spend them. There were no stores open, no passable roads, no transportation, no fuel, etc. Yet, there chief job was to "alleviate" the misery of the folks who had surrived Katrina. How sad.

Now, it appears that FEMA and their boss Chertoff do not want to stand up and be counted for what they did in the Katrina area. If just one half of what FEMA gave away in the Katrina area could have been funneled into housing, the Katrina area would be much better today.

Re: Shucks, let's indemnify the entire RV Industry

No major comment, Greg, but there you go again on formaldehyde. Where did you get the information that it was an "odorless" gas? And why is that important anyway?? H2S is pretty much odorless above lethal levels, but not below. My comment, though, is regarding where you heard that formaldehyde was odorless?? I've been smelling it for years - first in my prior job where we had collections of organisms stored in formaldehyde - and in my present job part of which is stepping into new RVs to take photos. Some of them still reek to the point of making my eyes water. Just wondering where you heard that….

I'm just glad, no, elated, that the RV industry plans to meet federal mobile home standards now. That can only be good for the RV industry and shows that customers are important! Believe me, they will perceive it that way too.