No good deed goes unpunished: Houston's Katrina crisis

[Devastatin Dave]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11677333/site/newsweek/
The funny thing about this is that the Houston citizens want these former New Orleans' bums to get jobs. Didn't they know ahead of time, these people didn't have jobs nor wanted to work in the first place. Thanks God I live far enough away that my town is run down by these government leaches. So what do you think? Should Houston package up these people and send them back to the Chocolate City as Nagin wants (so he can get his votes you know) or should they just bite the bullet and be the new host for these parasites?

[BigTex]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11677333/site/newsweek/
The funny thing about this is that the Houston citizens want these former New Orleans' bums to get jobs. Didn't they know ahead of time, these people didn't have jobs nor wanted to work in the first place. Thanks God I live far enough away that my town is run down by these government leaches. So what do you think? Should Houston package up these people and send them back to the Chocolate City as Nagin wants (so he can get his votes you know) or should they just bite the bullet and be the new host for these parasites?

OMG you can't call these poor displaced peoples bums thats just plain racism right there!!! If they up and kick them out their will be protests becuase a majority of them are black, you'll be tied up in court for year's by NBLA [correct acrynem?](even if there are other races involved.). Its quite sad Houston became the dumping ground for so many out of work people. You can hear about all the problems their having in houston all the time on the local news here in Dallas. Houston's having a large boom in violent crimes, yet they can do little to help this problem becuase they can't just kick them out with the whole nation watching them. For all the people not in the great U.S. of A. and dont understand my first few sentences, Katrina = racist Chocolate city = not racist H. Clinton mentioning slavemasters = racist.

[discovery1]

Some what related: Why not just use all these displaced ppl as a labor force to rebuild New Orleans? They need work and homes, the city needs to be rebuilt, why not?

Hmmmm. Throw out the able bodied ones.

[Papewaio]

Guys have you read about the flood in 1927 in NO?

Interesting effect it had on voting blocks and migration throughout USA.

BTW anyone hear about the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?... sweet death.

A tank burst and poured 2 million gallons of molasses onto the streets of Boston... cooking / suffocating anyone who got caught in its path ... 21 died.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Guys have you read about the flood in 1927 in NO?

Interesting effect it had on voting blocks and migration throughout USA.

BTW anyone hear about the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?... sweet death.

A tank burst and poured 2 million gallons of molasses onto the streets of Boston... cooking / suffocating anyone who got caught in its path ... 21 died.

The Black Strap flood was a tribute the equilibirum of Pressure, Temperature, and Volume. You pump the tank full of molasses with the temperature in the high teens, and then get surprised when it bursts at 42 degrees.

As I read about it, the drownings were horrible in that people had breathed in molasses, and then suffocated while wide-awake but unable to clear the gunk from their lungs and sinuses. Nasty.


Rebuilding NO will be a difficult political task. Too many refugees staying in Houston and not going home to the Parishes could lead to Republican majorities in the state -- the balance was a bit too close there. Not enough numbers going in to shift Texas, so the party simply has to get them all back home.

[Major Robert Dump]

I would dare say that most of the ones who have the skills and motivation to "rebuiild New Orleans" are already working. Offering jobs to the people who are responsible for the rise in crime isn't going to lowert crime because they dont want jobs.

Yesterday in Norman a KAtrina victim was going batty and foaming at the mouth and chasing people down the street, the cops tasered him twice and pinned him down and took him to the jail and he had a heart attack, most likely caused by whatever drugs he was on and all the physical exertion he was doing (or maybe they beat him to death)

Also, last month in southside OKC there was a rash of random armed robberies of pizza drivers. The guy, who was an evacuee, would spot a car topper, follow, park, and get the driver as he/she walked back to their car after the delivery. He was eventually caught because his temporary Lousiana auto tags (ya know, the paper ones) kind of stand out, and eventually a cop saw a paper La. tag and pulled the car over anfd golly, it was our boy, who, ironically, could have made more money delivering pizzas than robbing the pizza guys.

2000 sex offenders unaccounted for from new orleans and coming to a city near you

And there are people in jail right now who still havent been tried after months, and many would already be out had they pleaded guilty before the storm.

And insurance compnaies and shady car dealers/auctioneers are taking total loss cars ruined by salt water, and shipping them out of state to be sold to unsuspecting buyers, buyers who will be buying a USED car because they cant afford a NEW CAR WITH A WARRANTY and now they will get cornholed. American businessmen at their best, yay.

What a shame, what a clusterfudge

[Azi Tohak]

Some what related: Why not just use all these displaced ppl as a labor force to rebuild New Orleans? They need work and homes, the city needs to be rebuilt, why not?

Hmmmm. Throw out the able bodied ones.

They don't want to work and you can't force them to do so. It makes sense... but you can't use lazy people for anything.

Azi