I can only pray this is God's way of helping them learn self reliance...
The other question that comes up, if these people don't move back to NOLA, does that mean less rebuilding there? Who will answer these questions?
Ah, the joys of welfare, the gift that keeps on giving.
Eventually, Blanco and Nagin will gett Jesse Jackson to demand that Rick Perry forcibly deport them back to New Orleans. They need their voting base back before the next election. ;)
It seems unlikely to me that Texas is going to adjust its attitude. So I'm guessing the evacuees will.
This has got to be the democrats worst nightmare -- their loyal constituents being shown what true freedom is all about.
It's like when the soviet union couldn't keep the truth from its citizens anymore.
I wouldn't worry about it; after Nawlins is rebuilt, they'll wanna go back when they see how many nice new things there are to steal.
And all the criminals and drug addicts we get to keep too! Mayor Nagin proudly spoke last night that NO no longer had any criminals and drug addicts and he wanted to keep it that way. Apparently he has not invited them back to his New New Orleans, we get ta keep em in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio!
He let all of them out of jail so they could hop on a bus Gus, get out of town clown.)
Anyone forsee this? Anyone? Anyone?
Well, the good people who have been displaced will help the communities they stay in. The bad will hurt. Thus it has always been.
I hope the groups that opened up their homes and communities don't come to regret it, that would be an unfortunate reward for their generosity.
I'm leaving in 6months. Moving to the great liberal city of Austin. They don't want the evacuees. Go figure. Good luck friends.
This will, of course, be construed and portrayed by the race pimps, the democrat party, and other assorted left-wing moonbats, as a conspiracy by the Administration to ethnically cleanse NO.
In any case, it is my opinion that this large scale emigration of poor and criminal blacks will benefit NO in the long run, but to the sorry detriment of cities like Houston and Baton Rouge in particular. Look for BR to experience large increases in crime and extreme deviancy that will result in the welcome may being pulled.
Ouch! Just what TX needs--more demoncRATS!
" Fewer Than Half of Evacuees Want to Back Go Home"
The left bashed Barbara Bush when she stated this would happen.
I wonder if they think the welfare checks will be bigger in Texas?
Welfare checks are mailed to every state. What difference does the zip code make to a welfare queen?
People are adaptable and they respond rationally to the incentives that are set before them. We saw that in the overwhelming response to welfare reform ten years ago.
Give the displaced a chance to start a new life in Houston and pull themselves up by the bootstraps. They'll do all the right things.
To those who do want to return to NOLA, give them an honest chance to own their own property. They'll take care of it, I promise you.
The worst thing we can do is tell the displaced that the State will take care of everything. The best thing is to give them the means to do it themselves.
Anyone here know what the employment situation is like in Houston?
They can at least pick up the trash.
That is not a problem -- that is an opportunity. I suspect that the NOLA migrants will be this decade's boat people, an underclass that makes good.
It is only a matter of time until there is a killer hurricane in the Huston area. Where will they go then??????