guess they heard there is more free money back home!!!!
Not all people who were affected by Katrina were money sucking grubs. These folks at least said in the article that they were going home, and taking volunteering jobs until they got settled in paying jobs. I’m going to be optimistic on this family.
Likewise, my father in law, who while he does not live in NOLA, does work in the city (he’s a history teacher and coach at one of the many private schools) moved back to his house last month. The house, in Chalmette, was done for, but he rebuilt it...without ever having a FEMA trailer on his property, or begging the government for handouts.
I know the decent people who have worked so hard to rebuild don’t make the news often...it’s nearly always the scumbags. Just remember next time that there is...well...at least one decent hardworking gentleman down there. He’ll be the first to admit that the local government is corrupt as heck, but that’s his home, and he isn’t going to give up. I’m sure that he rubs off on the young men he teaches.
You've fallen for some of the media's lies. Of course, the idea that the poor of New Orleans who didn't leave in the face of a hurricane, caused anarchy post-storm in N.O., and shot up other cities, notably Houston, aren't the victims the media would like us to think they are. But you are falling for another of the media's myths -- that only poor black people were affected by the storm.
If you were to come to the city and drive through Lakeview/Lakeshore, you'd go through miles of white middle-class neighborhoods that are still beat the hell up. Many have moved on for various reasons (insurance screwing them, like where they moved better, waiting on insurance money, job in N.O. doesn't exist anymore and found one elsewhere).
St. Bernard Parish, which was demolished was working class and middle-class whites mostly. It wasn't only ghetto thugs who were affected by the storm.
I was one of those who fled the storm and had to spend time in Texas for a few months.