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2005-09-08 Home Front: Economy

Update: Day 3 Dallas Convention Center/New Orleans Evacuees 9-7-05

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Posted by RG 2005-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

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Will do.

:-)

Posted by RG 2005-09-08 00:12|| 2005-09-08 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Best wishes to you and Bob, RG. And to everyone trying to adjust to a post-Katrina world.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-09-08 00:15|| 2005-09-08 00:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Just a note about San Antonio's progress. Processed 13,000 folks. By the end of this weekend, only 5,000 will remain in shelters! That's 8,000 that have either found homes elsewhere, or SA has provided them with apartments, and most, jobs!

And yea, the area schools are lovin' having these new football players!

Posted by Sherry 2005-09-08 00:35|| 2005-09-08 00:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Good lord, where are all the jobs being found? Don't these people know this is the worst economy ever?

At least, that's what they keep saying in the press.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-08 07:48|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-08 07:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Amen, RC! Only the moonbats believe that 5% unemployment is the worst...economy...ever! In fact, wasn't it just 4.9% last month (before Katrina)? Report on CNN last night (usually watch Fox, but they were on commercial) of 500 N.O. evacuees (I won't call them "refugees") who ended up in Greenville, AL (1/2 way between Montgomery & Mobile, AL). The town only had 7,000 people before, so you're talking a 7% increase in population overnight! The city held a BBQ for all of them, and even the "poor, black" evacuees had nothing but praise for the City! I see a big shift coming in local/State and even Fed politics in Louisiana after this. Many who have NEVER even been outside of N.O. will see what the U.S. is REALLY like (generally kind, warm, open-arms kind of people) and it could affect an entire generation of blacks from N.O. Heck, even my wife's hometown (Gadsden, AL, NE of Birmingham) had 180 kids (plus their families) show up and enroll in school. They found 62 public housing units for these families, and even there, they are starting anew and finding jobs. If I were to get hit by a hurricane like that, I'd wanna be in NO other country than the U.S. They're moving people ALL over: 2,000 to Boston, Mass; 1,000 to Salt Lake City; 1,000 or so to Portland, Oregon; 1,000 or so to San Diego area, etc. These people are going to have their eyes completely opened to the outside world and to the REAL America. Me just hopes they take full advantage of it.

Posted by BA 2005-09-08 08:36|| 2005-09-08 08:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Breaking up one [political] plantation at a time.

Posted by Flack Elmegum1744 2005-09-08 09:43|| 2005-09-08 09:43|| Front Page Top

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