Ping!
Politics aside, this is the difference between competence and negligence. Take notes, Blanco.
Maybe I can't count but seems like there are more displaced persons than the population of the states effected. All you have to do is say "I lost everything". Hope there are some kind of checks on all the money handed out.
Arkansas may be a poor state, but they've got some good, down to earth people who seem to be more than willing to help others.
Here we have the DiS-associated press thinking they are printing out a "nice quote? but they really did!
"THEY'RE TAKING CARE OF OUR NEEDS."
The epitome of the nanny/mammy/SALVE state mentality!
What else is happening in the "Banana Republik of Arkansas" ?
The jerk Right Rev Guv huckabee ---- the first thing you hear on the Arkansas Network News??
The federal government did NOT help much!
Leftist whinning from the leftist democrat huckabee who wants to be the Presidential candidate for the RNC? Gives one pause when huckabee is a "anointed one" of the RNC.
Congrats to Arkansas, and it's also good to read about this positive attitude among the evacuees. It's probably more common than we realize, but the press likes to obsess on the passive-aggressive whiner contingent rather than on the people who are pulling themselves together and doing something.
Yes, Mike..we are taking care of them and I have contributed. But let's be honest. They were paid in NO to do these service jobs, not counting the "tips" they received.
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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'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 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 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.