Posted on 09/12/2005 5:23:36 AM PDT by sweetliberty
Many people here have opened their homes to them. Wal-Mart is hiring any associate who has been displaced by Katrina, not just here but all over the U.S.A. This in addition to financial assistance.
On a sour note, five evacuees cars were broken into at the Convention Center the first night they were there, despite the almost constant police patrol. FWIW, the police department is across the street from the convention center! However, no break-ins have been reported since.
I thought Huckabee was a conservative? Didn't he play in a band for freerepublic at several functions? Who am I thinking of?
:-)
But he often acts like a democRAT.
Now Budge, you know that was just the Pine Bluff welcoming committee. < /sarcasm >
Huckabee is a "Republican" but he's no conservative.
"Huckabee is a "Republican" but he's no conservative."
Ok, sure Arkansas gov't isn't a model of efficiency after he's been in office nearly 10 years, but the Arkansas legislature is full of Bill Clinton disciples who have worked to thwart Huck. The state is no worse off that it was after Clinton. Huck is without question pro-life. He drives libs crazy because he was a Baptist minister, and I enjoy that.
That's his true calling in life. Not politics.
sw
One hell of a legacy, eh?
"The state is NO WORSE OFF that it was after Clinton"
What a load!
I've re-read the headlines about five times.
When was there a storm in Arkansas?
Storm in Arkansas?
Did I miss something? Was it a big storm, little storm, or political storm?
Or is the headline writer just very poor with english?
It's the AP. Need I say more?
It sounds like Huckabee is rising to the challenge the right way. Plus, this article is full of a forbidden word, is it not??? REFUGEES REFUGEES REFUGEES. There must be a lot of common sense there as well. Aaaahhh, how tremendously refreshing.
One can only hope that the REFUGEES see how life could be lived, now that they are out of NO.
yesterday our daughter said her co worker's wife rec'd a letter from her employer which stated evacuees will get preference for any positions opened within the company. She didn't know if this was policy with this one company or not. Bottom line, if I was more qualified for a job than an evacuee who applied, they would most likely get the job anyway.
Also all HUD housing now will be filled with evacuees. An example would be a senior citizens complex might now bump a senior who was on the waiting list and instead fill the apartment with an evacuee family.
I know these people need help but doing it this way just seems so wrong.
I agree with you for the most part. I know of one evacuee here who applied at Walmart and was told that they were giving there jobs to those who had been employed by Walmart in the evacuated areas. That I can understand. But not to provide jobs based on their status as evacuees. That is nothing more than another affirmative action type plan that doesn't take into account the person's qualifications for a position. I doubt this is widespread. I would hope not. As far as Section 8 housing, I don't know. I think it needs to be balanced. Even without the evacuees, the funding ALWAYS runs out before the needs are met. I expect there will be more funding to states that are taking in a lot of the evacuees, but Arkansas's state programs are already more heavily funded by the federal government than most other states. Could have something to do with the fact that a third of our population is already on some type of public assistance. Nearly another third work for the state. That explains a lot right there.
I don't want to rain on anyone's parade but according to some people I work with, the security cameras at WM recorded so much shoplifting that the local store locked it's doors and searched some people before allowing them to leave back to their campgrounds.
Also, the local law has been called five times to the campground for domestic fights.
I hope these are just isolated incidents and not a pattern everywhere.
Well - I am glad to hear that my fellow Arkansans are stepping up to the plate. But Huckabee out yapping is a good sign that his next move will be a new tax or tax surcharge (like the one that was suppose to expire last year on income taxes, but didn't).
I am amazed - we were not affected physically by the hurricane, yet our own RINO governor and butt-slow officials were better prepaired than NO officials....
What a sad statement that is for NO and all of LA.
Unforunately, it appears that this is a pattern forming - posts from folks in several of the towns and cities in Texas taking in refugees also report major crime spikes like the ones you mentioned.
I hadn't thought about that....yep, more likely true than not...sheesh....you going to be a poll watcher this year?
I'm sure that will happen. There are, after all, criminals known to be in the mix and there is no reliable means of sorting them out as yet.
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