"nom=de=plume" wrote in message
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On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:17:43 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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They were on a generator for 2 months. They called it "feeding the
monster"

I didn't realize you can afford a generator on a minimum wage income.

Maybe those people should not live in a hurricane zone. Fortunately
the price of the real estate usually precludes most minimum wage
people. New Orleans was just an aberration, perhaps the most dangerous
city in the country ... but we all knew that. It had been a recurring
warning for many years before Katrina. They just lived, and continue
to live in denial. There won't be any significant difference if a Cat
3 hit them next week. The only thing better will be that 100,000 of
those people did not come back. It will still be a disaster.

The poor people living in NOLA are not living in denial. They're living
the "American dream" (according the right-wing).



They are living the lazy, suck at the government teat. Obama, should have
told them to get off their lazy asses and clean up the crap on the streets.
Does not cost money, just work and time. And since most are unemployed,
they should have lots of time. Every place else where a natural disaster
hit here in the USA, has cleaned up their neighborhood. I went there for
Habitat for Humanity in April after the storm. Went to Slidell. About 40
miles away. lots of empty buildings and short hours at the restaurants as
there was a lack of labor. $10.50 an hour at McD's and a$500 bonus for
staying 3 months. But anybody that was able bodied was making at least $25
an hour as a roofer, carpenter or day labor. They had cleaned up most of
the stuff and piled the trash in large piles waiting for a scoop loader and
truck to take it away. NOLA was still a trash heap. Why were not the
people there cleaning up their hood? Waiting for FEMA to do the work?
Waiting for some government entity to hire them at $50 an hour to clean up
their own yards? It was the most dangerous city in the country before the
storm. Only reason it did not show up on the FBI crime stats as they were
15,000 people under the cutoff for cities to be listed. Lots of those who
left have brought up the crime level at their destination cities. Ask
Houston how they like the NOLA refugees.