Posted on 11/26/2005 4:40:58 PM PST by Ellesu
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In addition, the aftermath of Katrina has brought to light the issue of poverty in New Orleans. But rather than explore the complex causes of poverty...
It sounds like this lady found that some of the causes of poverty aren't so complex afterall.
Cynthia Tucker must be out sick with a hangover. Tomorrow this article will be retracted with an apology.
FGS. Free booze too.
Beyond ridiculous.
It was the first of the month and they sure as hell weren't going to be far from their mailboxes.
TAW
Doh! Better get a commission set up to figure that out. Pronto!
(rolls eyes
I like this sentiment in general, (it's a great tagline for welfare reform actually) but i do hope that we are paying enough attention to the mental health of the people that are dealing with being displaced. I can only imagine the depression that might set in for people that are prone to it. But I do agree that eventually people are going to have to become productive members of society and start contributing.
Unfortuantely, many Americans have no self-pride and thus evidently have no shame in sucking from the government teet.
Yes. My daddy lost his daddy when he was a baby and his Mama raised three kids off a piece of rough mountain land. He recalled the humiliation of walking past my future Mama's house carrying boxes of welfare food (way before food stamps.) He was sweet on her, and vowed that he would pull himself up from that.
He did. He was first in his HS class, but split to California and the CCC because he did not have a proper suit to give the speech. Later joined the Navy, served in the Pacific, got his education off a vets' program, married that woman and raised a fine family who know how blessed we are by his refusal to accept his circumstances.
There appears to be a lot of opportunity in New Orleans. However, if the hurricane forecasters are correct, problems like this have just begun. New Orleans could 'get-it' all over again next year, then what? If a cat 3-5 hits on the west side of NO, then, there will be 10k+ dead.
Can the country go through this again? I-10 east of New Orleans, all the way to Florida, was like something out of the book 'The Stand.' Stranded, hungry and dehydrated people out of gas, water and food in 95 degree weather were everywhere, some on foot.
I'm in Mobile and I've modified my hurricane plans after seeing that disaster on I-10, it scared me. When some supplies did finally begin to arrive, guns were used by some to shove their way to the head of the lines. The local sheriff said that anyone seen in a line with a gun would be arrested immediately for armed robbery, there weren't enough cops until the out of state guys began to arrive.
I donated for the rescue of the poor animals, they are the ones that need help..
I venture down to Key West a couple of times a year. If you have any idea where the house was built, I'll be happy to check it out and see if it's still standing.
I assume it's no longer in your family, pity really, considering the price of real estate in the Keys.
I showed an apartment to a guy form New Orleans. He was in Seattle looking for work at hospitals. He got a job pretty quickly after coming into town (into Seattle, that is.)
He decided to rent elsewhere, but I don't get how people who would be getting their apartment PAID FOR have not found housing (outside of the immediate vicinity of the Gulf Coast)
It's there, it's available, it's going to get paid for--what's the hold up?
The housing is not here. Some people, not ten miles from me, just got out of tents. Everything around here is full and I'm a ways from the worst hit areas. Houses all the way into western Florida were destroyed...all along the coast.
""parasites with rights."
ROFLMAO"
Boortz did not actually say this and he is royally P.O.'d at the AJC. What he said was they are like ticks moving to another part of the dog. Pretty good analogy for many of them.
That's a good idea. I'd trust private animal rescue groups to get the job done over the government. ;)
Anybody got a link to the story out of Denver(?) that had a group of men who claimed they were Katrina evacuees and got lots of free items and handouts? They were actually local bred, born, and raised jerks who scammed the system and I heard they got caught. Don't know their punishment, so will someone post this story out of Colorado??
That's why in my post I exempted the Gulf Coast. For those of the evacuees who ARENT in that area of the country anymore, there is no excuse.
I know this because I work in the apartment industry. Around the rest of the country there is and has been plenty of housing. One of the reasons FEMA made this rule (and exempted LA and MS, I believe) to eject people from hotels was that apartments WOULD be paid for, but hotels cost far more and there is available apartment housing. There's no reason for someone, say in Seattle, to not be in an apartment. Jobs? That's something else. It depends on where you are, what previous experience you have and how crowded the market for that particular skillset is in the area.
I would love to see some happy follow-up stories on the animal rescues. That story seems to have died and it was so close to the hearts of many of us here at FR.
Here is an update, but it's not all good news.
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