[ejonesie22]

I know where we’d be. We could have record employment instead of the highest unemployment in the South. We could be leading the region in job creation and recovery. We could have built homes for the 70,000 people still living in toxic FEMA trailers.

Eaves is an idiot, or a liar or both.

If it were not for the "imports" the coast would be months behind. Our unemployment has nothing to do with the coast.

I worked with trying to get laborers trained for the coast from Central and North Central Mississippi.

Guess what, the sorry SOBs were offered 13-22.00 an hour and would not come to free training to get the jobs.

Several contractors would come to Jackson, Vicksburg, and other areas to recruit folks at the labor pick up sites and they did not want to go.

So while there was job growth there was no one interested. Except those "imports"

We will not end up having to carry the coast for the rest of our days because of them. And sad fact is they need more. There are 100s of jobs going for want south of here.

[vaudine]

What you say is true, but consider this. Isn't it a fact that because of the disaster from Katrina it is difficult to find housing there? I know construction people working down there--chiefly electricians, and they are making considerably more than 20.00 an hour. Also being furnished trailers to live in. I doubt if the unskilled are being offered that. If they have to find a place on their own and pay for it, 13.00 to 20.00 an hour would hardly be a living wage. Places to live are still at a premium.

On the subject of imports, I wonder how many of the casino workers are illegals. They have a huge foreign workforce.I'm wondering if the casino influence is making Haley keep a low profile on illegals. MS gets a lot of revenue from the casinos, and the ones in Vicksburg and near Memphis did not get hit. They just keep rolling along, like the old muddy Mississippi.

vaudine