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GULF EVACUEES ON THEIR OWN
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| Monday, November 28, 2005
| BY RUSSELL BEN-ALI
Posted on 11/28/2005 5:29:01 AM PST by Calpernia
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To: Gritty
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posted on
11/28/2005 7:40:51 AM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: WasDougsLamb
But they have to actually look.
62
posted on
11/28/2005 7:40:58 AM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: Calpernia
65 year old with a 5 & 3 year old?? Where are the parents??
Sounds like one of those scams, i.e., the old man registers with the kids as the "needee" and the parents are collecting the same bennies in another neighborhood and welfare and unemployment probably, too.
Work??? Hey, you might lose those freebies that way!!
63
posted on
11/28/2005 8:42:10 AM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: Calpernia
Do you have any idea if the refugees voted in your local elections?It wouldn't be unusual if some voted. We frequently have people vote who shouldn't. In any case there weren't any surprises or unexpected results from recent elections.
64
posted on
11/28/2005 9:28:35 AM PST
by
FreePaul
To: FreePaul
Thanks. Wish we could say the same :(
65
posted on
11/28/2005 9:29:44 AM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Calpernia
Time to head home and clean your city and build levees
What did they think, they would get free room and board for years while illegal aliens rebuilt their city for them?
Its a whacky world
66
posted on
11/28/2005 9:30:34 AM PST
by
antaresequity
(PUSH 1 FOR ENGLISH, PUSH 2 TO BE DEPORTED)
To: Lazamataz
I heard a radio report to this effect almost a month ago, if memory serves.
67
posted on
11/28/2005 9:31:38 AM PST
by
MortMan
(Eschew Obfuscation)
To: mlc9852
FEMA is providing housing for people... 250,000 mobile homes finished, 500,000 on order.
BTW, in Mississippi, Burger King jobs are going for $15/hr with a $300 sign-on! And they CAN'T get people. Restaurants are closing because no one wants to work... just live on the dole.
When do we get enough backbone to say STOP... we aren't going to pay you any more?
68
posted on
11/28/2005 9:37:13 AM PST
by
myrabach
To: myrabach
My daughter and her boyfriend are working in New Orleans. He is doing construction work through a contractor who is paid by FEMA. They are staying at a hotel in Metarie. There are many Mexicans there also. My daughter tells me they are going to be getting rid of the Mexicans who don't have proper documentation. She also told me there are several Mexicans staying in one room but that only a couple of them have jobs. The ones who don't work still stay there free AND show up in the mornings for breakfast (paid by FEMA), eat and go back to the room and sleep! And she tells me Burger King in New Orleans is starting people at $9 with a $6000, yes $6000 bonus to be paid quarterly over a year's time. But it does sound like the government (federal or local) is putting pressure on employers to not hire undocumented aliens. But it also sounds like there just aren't enough Americans who want to work, either. New Orleans has a very long way to go before it is even close to normal.
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posted on
11/28/2005 9:51:11 AM PST
by
mlc9852
To: Calpernia
"Do you have any thoughts as to whether the refugees voted in local elections where they were housed?"
It appears the evacuees were to be granted absentee ballot status for their home districts.
"FEMA will mail out, on behalf of the SoS Ater's office, a flyer informing applicants of their basic voting right with regard to participating in elections scheduled in communities from which they are temporarily displaced."
http://www.sec.state.la.us/admin/press/p110905.pdf
"SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Displaced Citizens Voter Protection Act of 2005'."
"SEC. 2. APPLICABILITY OF PROTECTIONS FOR ABSENT MILITARY AND OVERSEAS VOTERS TO KATRINA EVACUEES."
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.3734:
"Lack of voters in Feb. worry activists
Displaced citizens politically detached
Sunday, November 20, 2005"
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-11/113247392075600.xml
70
posted on
11/28/2005 10:06:57 AM PST
by
Just A Nobody
(I - LOVE - my attitude problem! WBB lives on. Beware the Enemedia.)
To: R. Scott
But they have to actually look. ----Thats what I said. **If** being the main word there. If they can do it, it CAN be done by others if they look hard enough.
71
posted on
11/28/2005 10:51:59 AM PST
by
WasDougsLamb
(I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
To: starfish923
---I like your "bump" smilies. LOL
72
posted on
11/28/2005 11:14:56 AM PST
by
WasDougsLamb
(I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
To: WasDougsLamb
Thank you.
73
posted on
11/28/2005 5:21:23 PM PST
by
starfish923
(Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
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