Big Easy Leaders Upset Over Cleanup Jobs

AP ^ | 10/7/5 | ADAM NOSSITER

[SmithL]

Cleaning up the messes that New Orleaners won't.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Vincente Fox is now proven RIGHT!!!!!

Union leaders upset?HA. HA. HA.HA. HA. hEY GUYS, why don't you try to unionize the illegals? at least we would have updated membership lists and where they live ( cause you've got to get those dues!).

[ladyinred]

This is rather pathetic.

[TommyDale]

I think a lot of people are irked.

[Mannaggia l'America]

“I am not going to level criticism at local and state officials. Mayor Nagin, and most mayors in this country, have a hard time getting their people to work on a sunny day, let alone … in front of a hurricane.” - Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)

[clee1]

Hell, New Orleanians MAKE messes; not clean them up.

[ryan71]

"Many of those engaged in the huge cleanup and reconstruction effort here — nobody has an exact count — are immigrants"

Who was it that said Mexicans will are needed to do jobs blacks won't do?

Fox?

[LauraleeBraswell]

I hate to say this, but what about all the poor people who lived in New Orleans? Perhaps, the reason many of them were in poverty (not all) was because they were not willing to do jobs like this.

[ryan71]

I guess he's right.

[ronnied]

them people in the shelters might be poor or broke but they ain't stupid. only a fool would move back to nol no matter what the mayor or governor or senator said. nol has outlived it's usefulness, give it back to mother nature, she wants it...

[ncountylee]

Think the NO folk will clean the free housing that they have been given?

[TADSLOS]

Who wants to go back to a city that doesn't have a decent store to loot?

[LauraleeBraswell]

If you don't work for it, then it just doesn't mean as much to you. So no. What the media isn't telling us is that many of these people live in Shantytowns. But rich, middle class or poor it doesn't matter. New Orleans people should put in their share of the work to clean up the mess.

[Pikamax]

http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/10/07/news/nation/frinat13.txt

In a passionate speech that brought the crowd to a standing ovation, the mayor criticized the no-bid contracts awarded by FEMA in the days after the hurricane and demanded that the nation’s big recovery contractors hire local workers at decent wages.

“I can tell that you are ready to go, and you don’t want to necessarily hear a political speech,’’ Nagin told business owners.

He added that businesses are probably wondering how the city can “make sure that New Orleans is not overrun by Mexican workers.’’

[Knitting A Conundrum]

--Hell, New Orleanians MAKE messes; not clean them up.--

Lots of truth to that...

[Dems_R_Losers]

OMG, can you imagine what would happen if a Republican had said that about Mexicans??????

[traumer]

Fox said that Mexicans are needed to do jobs that EVEN blacks won't do...

:o)

[elli1]

Instead of 'Big Easy Leaders' being 'upset' over who is doing the cleanup, they ought to be glad that anyone is willing to battle the heat, skeeters, sleep in a tent and do really dirty work.

They might as well get used to it; a lot of evacuated NOLA residents aren't coming back. And a good percentage of those who do come back, won't stay. Too much change--neighborhood gone; neighbors gone. They will have established a new comfort zone in their new communities and NOLA will feel alien to them. NOLA is going to be a different and smaller town in the forseeable future.

[traumer]

Mayor Ray Nagin added his voice to the chorus this week, telling local business people:

"How do I ensure that New Orleans is not overrun by Mexican workers?"

[sarasmom]

“I am not going to level criticism at local and state officials. Mayor Nagin, and most mayors in this country, have a hard time getting their people to work on a sunny day, let alone … in front of a hurricane.” - Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)"

Most people who work, have a rather rational reason for not working as slave laborers.
Most, make that all, employers who hire illegals, are not concerned about following legal and ethical business practices.
They just see no problem with the concept of "indentured servants" and slavery.
I detest union labor, since it has devolved into a "pay to work" criminal enterprise.
But I find even more contemptible, those people who claim "competition levels" forced them to indenture servants, and/or import illegal slave labor.
BS!