WRONG FORUM: N B4 it goes 2 D&D They weren't doing that before... what makes you think they'll do it now?
My mother in law has become a different person since the Katrina refugees have come to her neighborhood. It upsets me and the wife, some of the comments she makes are borderline racist and she never used to say anything like that.
Katrina is irrefutable proof that private charities are nice to the limited extent that they can help, but that it is riduclous and anti-Christian or anti-humanitarian to try to pose them as a substitute for the welfare state. We should have government programs large nough for the immensity of the problem, which would include public works jobs and education and housing programs for the Katrina victims. Nothing is worse than to have many of these poor, unskilled folks uprooted from theiir family and neighborhood networks that allowed them to survive. Oh well, I guess we need tax breaks for the well off and hundreds and hundreds of billions for Bush's Iraqi caper. Screw the Katrina victims and cities such as Houston that have tried to help out.
this is another mess on the head of this current admistration. I don't blame them for the damage to N.O. or even leaving the victims out to dry for a week. but they have relied on houston and other cities to their job, and these cities can only handle so much. they're lucky houston is in upswing in the economy. if these people were fighting houstonians for gov't relief there would be flat out riots. you'd think this administration would try to redeem itself from its initial poor performance. what's going on in houston, and the lack of progress in new orleans is sad.
Attempt to get a job? What for? In New Orleans, people would recieve welfare checks without even showing proof that they are attempting to get a job. In Houston, many evacuees are upset that one must show that they are attempting to find a job in order to recieve their checks. I know this because some people in my office have relatives here from New Orleans and they are sick of them and their entitlement attitude as well.
This situation is going to get much worse over the course of the next few months, as the housing/apartment/hotel vouchers begin to dry up. It's unsavory to say, but (as stated above) New Orleans struggled with a dependancy population and it's now on our lawn. Evan
hear me out on this one. Operation Humanitarian Aid/Waste Dump. we take the evacuees back... and then drop crates full of humanitarian aid (sewage, waste, etc). don't know why that came to mind, but thought it'd be hilarious.
The Whole Culture of N.O. is different And it permiates from the way the local government worked small things like you stated above I think houston is a bit TOUGHER on Crime than N.O. was People are AMAZED by the fact that a crime that got you Probation in N.O. puts you away from YEARS here [this is based on heresay not facts .. but i found that odd] I think they is some adjustments to be made most by the folx from N.O. You cannot come to someone's house and expect them to change for you Rocket River
A true Christian and a loyal follower of the famed compassionate conservative George Herbert Walker Bush III?.
The difference is Jesse Jackson screamed bloody murder when the media started using the term refugees cause supposedly it's racist. But technically I think both terms apply in this case..though evacuees is supposedly more pc. This is a situation that I think all Houstonians feared when we welcomed all those evacuees here with open arms. And I fear ya'll are right, that this situation will only worsen. I only hope that most of the people that evacuated here will return to NO (eventually).
evacuees would imply they are going back and i don't think that is the case anymore so maybe it should be refugees now............
