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Many Katrina evacuees are still jobless
seattlepi.nwsource ^ | o5/30/07 | RASHA MADKOUR

Posted on 05/30/2007 12:21:03 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3

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To: Xenalyte
I knew I’d find you in this thread!

To those who don’t know, Xenalyte and my Houston area neighborhood have been gracious enough to house these unfortunate souls who lack the will to work, yet find time to roam around at 2:00am shooting off guns and doing a bit of robbing, raping, and murdering.

41 posted on 05/30/2007 12:48:57 PM PDT by avacado
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To: TornadoAlley3

whether they have jobs or not is their own personal business. not any reporters and not ours.


42 posted on 05/30/2007 12:49:05 PM PDT by all the best
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To: Kenton
Just as they were before they became Katrina evacuees.

Exactly. Before Katrina they were regular citizens who were unemployed (probably for a long time) and likely on the dole. Now they are "Katrina evacuees". The clear, and intended MSM implication here is: The screwed up Bush Administration is responsible for this event in people's lives.

43 posted on 05/30/2007 12:50:54 PM PDT by Obadiah (I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

From what I have read they had no jobs before the storm and were living off welfare so why should they work now?


44 posted on 05/30/2007 12:51:57 PM PDT by YOUGOTIT (The Greatest Threat to our Security is the US Senate)
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To: Lurking in Kansas
“Huh? How do you fail that?”

I believe you have to have some form of security clearance. Also, you probably have to pass a drug test. And, you have to be able to read and work reasonably fast.

These are reasonable assumptions based on talking to a family member on an airline ground crew.

45 posted on 05/30/2007 12:52:19 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: thegreatbeast

” We Need Adidas and Big Screen TVs and carry out chicken, air conditioning too, we need more government cheese and canned food with that generic stamp of only ” beans ” on the can.

And if you keep taking care of us and fostering us along with guaranteed monthly government checks and all?. We’ll just keep on voting for you all yo! ”


46 posted on 05/30/2007 12:52:23 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
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To: TornadoAlley3

If you can’t find a job in H-town in this economy you must not be employable.


47 posted on 05/30/2007 12:53:52 PM PDT by 38special (I mean come on.)
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To: all the best
It is our business when our tax dollars are still supporting the able bodied who sit on their arse and whine all day.
48 posted on 05/30/2007 12:54:05 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
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To: L98Fiero

That is what you get when you have almost an entire city that is dependent on the government for every aspect of their life. We should never let that happen again. Unless they have a disability they should be given December 31st as a deadline and then no benefits of any kind, anywhere.


49 posted on 05/30/2007 12:54:47 PM PDT by Who Dares Wins
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To: TornadoAlley3

As my Russian friend would say; Tough Shitsky.


50 posted on 05/30/2007 12:56:00 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: Lurking in Kansas

“She failed the test to get a job cleaning airplanes.”
“Huh? How do you fail that?”

Drug Test??


51 posted on 05/30/2007 12:56:52 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot
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To: TornadoAlley3

I repeat: whether they have a job or not is their business. Transfer form your pocket to theirs should not take place PERIOD. Their situation is none of your business. Now tell me what you don’t understand.


52 posted on 05/30/2007 1:03:36 PM PDT by all the best
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To: HEY4QDEMS
Bums

You can take the bum out of New Orleans.

But you can't take the New Orleans out of the bum.

53 posted on 05/30/2007 1:05:46 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: TornadoAlley3
Shouldn’t the headline read :” Many Katrine refugees were and are still jobless.”
54 posted on 05/30/2007 1:07:00 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Liberals, A terrorists best friend!)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Believe me... these people where just as ‘jobless’ in NOLA as they are in Houston.... they don’t want a job, they want a hand out and a cadillac.

There is plenty of work in this city...


55 posted on 05/30/2007 1:08:12 PM PDT by fhlh (Liberal (noun): A person so open minded, their brains have fallen out of their head.)
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To: all the best

I don’t understand why we let able bodied citizens suck on the public teat.


56 posted on 05/30/2007 1:09:06 PM PDT by wordsofearnest (Zachary Taylor s/h finished the job.)
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To: all the best

I understand that is your opinion, I do not have to agree with it.


57 posted on 05/30/2007 1:10:56 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
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To: Clam Digger
Jarreau said that after more than a year, her daily routine of making calls to employment agencies and employers, attending job fairs and walking around her neighborhood in search for wanted signs has yielded nothing.

She can walk around OUTSIDE all day looking for a job, but can't go to work where the job requires her to work outside because of high blood pressure?
58 posted on 05/30/2007 1:11:08 PM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (The United States of America is the only country strong enough to go it alone.)
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To: TornadoAlley3
Many Katrina evacuees are still jobless

Well, they weren't working before Katrina, so what's new?

59 posted on 05/30/2007 1:12:15 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: avacado

Some butt-monkey knocked over my favorite convenience store, the one on Wilcrest at Lakeside.

And then there was the time about a month ago that my husband and I were coming back into our little subdivision, and saw a guy strolling the area in a full sweatsuit, with hood up.

In April.

In Houston, where it was around 85 degrees and 85% humidity.

We said hi, but he wouldn’t make eye contact and got out of our vicinity pronto.


60 posted on 05/30/2007 1:14:33 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
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