Posted on 10/10/2005 4:48:34 PM PDT by LA Woman3
ST. LOUIS -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Monday accused the Bush administration of using Hurricane Katrina to reconstruct Louisiana politics, saying the U.S. had no plan to return displaced residents.
Jackson also criticized the government's awarding no-bid contracts to outside contractors importing out-of-state and foreign workers to rebuild New Orleans, while thousands of displaced former city residents are "languishing in 40 states" looking for work.
"There is no plan for massive rescue, relocation or return of residents," Jackson said in St. Louis, one stop along a route that a bus caravan of Katrina evacuees is taking to New Orleans to claim those jobs. The evacuees, escorted by Jackson's Chicago-based Operation PUSH, are due to arrive in New Orleans on Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at wwltv.com ...
I heard on the radio this afternoon that most of the people on the buses are not from New Orlean. I have been down there and they are not going to like what they see so I believe most will be on the next bus back to where ever they came from because it is still pretty bad down there.
Bush was brilliant for hiring the Israeli divers to blow up the levee to flood the 9th. We got the Blacks out, which was the plan all along. Never has one of my VRWC memos been so accurate in execution. Kudos to the racist white Christian Republican conspiracy!
Interesting link. The one New Orleans resident cited in the STL article was a pizza delivery guy who basically was hitching a ride home. I wonder if the two Spanish-speaking passengers at least had any construction experience.
So what was the point? I wonder how many actual New Orleans residents were picked up at Jackson's other stop in Memphis? Will these passengers possess any skills useful for the rebuilding of the city, or are they just more t-shirted flunkies for Jackson's next photo op?
Let's hope so!
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