You can’t judge all residents by a couple. There are plenty of us that have been busting our butts to recover what we can. Many of us have pride in our community and want to see it restored as quickly as possible.

I hope you and your friends don’t rush to judgments on all things as quickly as you did the character of all North Minneapolis residents.

Erica P.

err….I meant held

“I’ve always relied on the kindness of strangers”. Come on, RT, is this the best we can do? Look what happened to Blanche DuBois!

Hopefully you will not JUDGE a WHOLE community based on a few. There are always going to be those that wont help themselves but we just need to leave those to their own misery and find those helping themselves.

Would u feel the same way if people were being lazy drinking on the lawn if were in Edina !

I can see the Republicans Have Commented section 8 / Renters these are People that need Help and RT,if you can find ways to Help the Billionair Vikings owner you should be able to to feed these People

How about he takes his own advise and be the first by doing one for the city…RESIGN BUM!

Time to get these scamming mooches out of our state and off the welfare rolls…get out and go back to New orleans, chicago or wherever!!!!

The difference is the people who bust their a$$ are not the ones standing in line demanding assistance or looting. Its very obvious who the hardworking people are.

The only ones you hear demanding assistance at the lazy SOBs who have never worked a day in their life.

To the hard working people doing it on your own, I pray you get some sort of relief soon.

Hey, RyHACK – how about starting with an APOLOGY to that tree-trimmer guy
that was on last night’s news. The one that showed up; started to clear trees (using his OWN equipment – FOR >FREE<) and YOUR city inspectors forced him to leave & tried to give him a ticket.

With that kind of attitude; I would never even TRY to help ANYWHERE in Minneapolis – bulldoze the ENTIRE city & start over.

Breastfeeding an 8 year old, that is disgusting!!!!! I will not give anything to these people, or no “random act of kindness” or ever volunteer to help these lazy people again. I volunteered for 4 hours watched them sit and do do nothing but watch myself and others work out butts off while someting of them drank. My friends, co-workers and myself will NEVER do a thing for them again let along go to a frickin benfit concert. What a joke!

Hey give them a break – they had to get rid of the “evidence” that they looted from that liquor store up on Broadway.

In this day and age, can we really just leave the racist comments to ourselves. Better yet, treat people equally

If I was working at a place where someone was sitting there drinking beer, I would have left and made SURE they saw me working elsewhere where a homeowner is willing to help! What lazy blankety-blanks and then they wonder why no one is contributing? People only help to those who help themselves.

Amen!

Wow, For all of you good people who will never volunteer again or those who never volunteered anything but their opinion, it is my prayer that your final judgement is gentler.

I live in NOMI and have not been unemployed in over twenty years, I have only drawn unemployment once in my entire life. I can tell you that most of the people on my block either work or are retired (having worked for many years they deserve it).

There are many people who choose to live in NOMI for many different reasons and I am one of them. I enjoy the cultural diversity and I bought a lot of house for a little money which is a good value. I detest the plastic land of suburbs with their chain burger and chicken joints. Yeah we have a few of them but we also have more Mom and Pop operations like Tooties, the Lowry Cafe, and Hui’s Chowmein. You don’t even know what a good Gyro is like until you have had one from Fire & Ice or from Marina Deli in NE. I dare you to find a better hardware store than North End Hardware and if you want good coffee try Steamworks. Nghia @ Nghia’s Automotive is the best mechanic in the twin cities and is reasonably priced and one of the most honest people I have ever known.

Back when I lived in the suburbs I barely knew my neighbors. In the city I know most of the people on the block and they are all very nice people.

It makes me sad to see all of the derogatory comments about the residents who fell victim to the tornado. I don’t care who they are, whether they drink or not, whether or not they have a job. There are adults and children with no home or food who need a dose of compassion and an outpouring of humanity. And please quit using this comment area for personal political outbursts or attacks on RT Ryback. These people are part of our community and should be treated as such. Grow up…

I am surprised that Mayor Rybek would want interfaith orgainizations involved, after all he and all the other liberals want the seperation of church and state, so i guess the state better get a goin. The churches can give their money to the truly needy, not the welfare mamas.

(This is going to end up in the wrong place because we’ve reached some sort of limit to the web posting reply chain. This is in response to “Jim”s 4:20 posting)

Its not a single instance or a few lazy residents. I used to own a rental (for 20 years) over at 9th & Morgan in N-M. Every few years I had to just about REBUILD & rehab the place because the tenants moved out & were too lazy to even CLEAN (try scraping over an INCH of grime off of the top of a fridge sometime). Its emptying 30 BAGS of old moldy clothes plus a bunch of broken furnature out of the basement and then having half the neighborhood show up & go rummaging thru the dumpster. Its being broke into TWICE in a WEEK while you are rehabbing the place. Its finding stolen stop signs (that the kids stole); SHOWING them to the parents and being blown off as no big deal. Its replacing tile in the kitchen (due to the TENANTS leaking portable dishwasher); having the kids trying to kick the bedroom door in and mom sitting on her butt on the living room couch doing NOTHING. Its finding nice, neat little pieces cut out of window screens (crack smoking anyone) and having the tenant try to claim it was a “burglery” (burglers do NOT cut 2″x2″ neat holes). I wish that I could post the pictures … II still have them – got rid of the rental about 7 years ago because I got tired of fixing all of the damages that the tenants did. Its not finding ONE SINGLE decent tenant in 20 years at that place. (Yes; there ARE good tenants out there – we had much better results in the other rentals … note to prospective landlords – rent to MINISTERS – not welfare )

There may be “grasshoppers” in Joplin; I don’t know. I AM familier with N-M … and “familiarity breeds contempt”.

The North side needs random acts of kindness…..why don’t they do it themselves! Return the stolen property, pay for the liquor and other places you robbed, I wouldn’t give any one of them a place to sleep or a hot meal! Where were they when South Mpls got hit by the tornando? They were sitting on their a$$ laughing and that folks is a fact, just like the fact that there are lazy welfare lying people in line getting hand outs they don’t deserve!!!

They’re just going to use this as another opportunity to milk the system. 147 homes were deemed “unlivable”, yet over 200 homes were either abandoned or in foreclosure already. Why are there over 1000 people taking hand-outs when there weren’t that many people in the affected area? BULLDOZE, we need more parks and gardens and parking lots anyway. Go back to Detroit or Chicago, you’ve ruined enough of our city.

These people need help. I grew up in N Mpls and they are some of the best folks I have had the pleasure of knowing. But please MORONS do not mention the Vikes stadium when talking about this tragedy it just makes you look more stupid than you already are.