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Posted on 11/27/2005 9:14:48 PM PST by Graybeard58
That being said, while I pity our legal guests, there is ample aid available for all of them.
As for the illegals, why...WHY are we not arresting and severely fining any companies that hire them?!? Cut off the jobs for illegals and there will be none. Punish those who encourage and participate the crime.
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Considering that the primary purpose of American government is to provide everyone with housing, food, medical care, computers and instructions, it is hard to imagine who or what to blame for the delay here. Racism, no doubt.
How about learning to speak english? That would help a whole lot and considering you've been here for 20 years, it might mean you could earn more and buy YOURSELF a stronger house.
As a "victim" of Rita, I have first-hand knowledge that the bias shown to Katrina victims is worse than you can imagine. Our local churches were still feeding Katrina people two hot meals a day until the day we were issued a mandatory evacuation. But...
The Red Cross didn't have our zip code listed as a disaster zone "because Katrina victims have abused the system." Walmart didn't have eggs or milk for three weeks because there was no electricity into our entire town. There was no gasoline for a week so people with generators could only use them at night. The temp was near 100 during the day.
There are only so many people to do repair work so you get in line and wait your turn. I have tar-paper on my roof and uprooted tree stumps in the yard. I feel lucky I don't have a tree in my house like the people across the street and next-door, on both sides. We all have insurance but we still are waiting because there is more damage than there people to do the work--and they have come in from all over the country. There are out of state trucks all over town.
Entire towns were wiped out in SE Texas and SW Louisianna but you don't hear about them.
Katrina is the "politically correct" hurricane. It's as simple as that. And when you've been in one you know that the POTUS is not who you need; "rednecks with chainsaws" are who you need and they came through --as always. They cleared the roads for FEMA and they brought MRE's, water, and ice.
We didn't have a single death due to the hurricane because our elected officials did a great job of getting people out--including hospitals and nursing homes.
Tell them to go home, like over the border back home. These people are here illegally. PERIOD!
And they would never even think of getting into their Cadillacs or Town Cars and driving from Palm Beach or Boca Raton over to places like Pahokee and Belle Glade - those towns may as well be in the Andromeda Galaxy as far as the retired NY'ers are concerned. These are people who consider driving up Florida's Turnpike to take the grandkids to Disney World as the equivalent of traveling through Indian Country in a covered wagon.
That's because you folks don't vote for democrats and never will vote for democrats, no matter how many taxpayer-funded generators they give away to your neighbors to hock at the local flea market. As far as the media's concerned, you deserve everything you got from Rita and then some because you vote for Republicans. Besides, you might have nice things to say about the GOP, or you may actually talk about "self reliance", and the media can't be having any of that.
Everybody has had some problems but that's normal considering the vast area and numbers of people that were displaced.
I was gone 4 weeks but from what I've been told, FEMA did a better job than the Red Cross.
The big red "X" (usually put on by county officials) means they're not supposed to be living there -- the house is uninhabitable. "Aid workers" don't visit people who aren't supposed to be lving in a condemned dwelling, but that's too logical for this reporter.
They should have gotten a visit from specific "local officials" though -- to tell them to get out. It's a little thing called code enforcement/public safety -- but that's usually ignored when it comes to illegal immigrants. Mustn't discriminate.
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