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To: i_dont_chat
My hometown of Houston is as well equipped to handle these problems as any other city. Somebody has got to do it. Change, evolution, problems-solving -- that's what life is all about. It is our National duty: bring it on!

If it is a "National" duty, why does one city have to be that "somebody"?

There is an entire country out there, from sea to shining sea, where they can be spread out to and join the local economy. Swamping the economy of one single city only ensures a continuing welfare entitlement mentality.

10 posted on 03/05/2006 8:50:01 AM PST by Polybius
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To: Polybius

Relative to the population of the central east coast of Florida there is a heavy influx of gulf coast evacuees who have remained. Most have integrated well into the area communities and become wage-earning, tax paying residents without any noticeable increase in per capita crime. Our small office building was painted last month by a painting firm that moved the owner, two employees and families, to this region and began to do business. A local bank did some smart lending to get the business restarted(as opposed to the national holding company banks who, in spite of their inflated rhetoric, wouldn't even talk to the owner about a loan to get his business going again).


13 posted on 03/05/2006 9:22:05 AM PST by middie (ath.)
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