Letter to New Orleans
Aug. 31st, 2006 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sereneorangeDear NO,
When you were beaten and covered in water after Katrina, we were glad here
in Houston to take in your people. We were glad to give them our money, the
clothes off our backs, and some of us shared our homes.
Crime is down 60-70% in New Orleans. The homicide rate in Houston is up 70%.
You can have them back now. Next time, send them somewhere that is not so
giving and polite. Maybe they will not overstay their welcome and take their
unruly asses back home.
Sincerely,
Marilyn
When you were beaten and covered in water after Katrina, we were glad here
in Houston to take in your people. We were glad to give them our money, the
clothes off our backs, and some of us shared our homes.
Crime is down 60-70% in New Orleans. The homicide rate in Houston is up 70%.
You can have them back now. Next time, send them somewhere that is not so
giving and polite. Maybe they will not overstay their welcome and take their
unruly asses back home.
Sincerely,
Marilyn
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Date: 2006-09-01 12:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-09-01 08:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 12:59 pm (UTC)They have some jobs in the lower skilled sector, but nowhere for them to live.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 01:00 pm (UTC)If you are not up and out of your house by 8 and staying out job hunting till 5, you are not serious about job hunting. Job hunting should be treated like a job.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 01:11 pm (UTC)THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!
Our own city residents can't even get help, yet they're screaming that FEMA is unfair. Fuck you, I say. Had we gone to N.O. think we'd get the same first class treatment? Hell fucking no!
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 01:20 pm (UTC)1. Get a job
2. Pay their own bills
3. Quit killing each other (and anyone else for that matter)
Is that so much to ask?
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Date: 2006-09-01 01:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-09-01 02:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 02:07 pm (UTC)I haven't really noticed the raised rate in crime. Have you? I'm really not saying this to be a smartass. People keep saying that homicide has gone up, but where? The 3rd ward, I guess?
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 02:09 pm (UTC)Other areas it has .The gangs from NOLA relocated here and that is a big part of it.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 02:13 pm (UTC)Hm.
I just really haven't noticed a change, haven't heard of any specific crimes on the news or anything, haven't been told anything about it by friends. But then, I'm pretty Montrose-centric.
Gangs still exist? That is so 95. :P
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Date: 2006-09-01 02:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 02:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 02:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 02:21 pm (UTC)I needed the smile. I started my morning off with rants.
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Date: 2006-09-01 02:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 03:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 03:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 05:33 pm (UTC)Crime rate in 3rd ward
Date: 2006-09-01 07:31 pm (UTC)Re: Crime rate in 3rd ward
Date: 2006-09-01 07:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-01 11:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-02 08:09 am (UTC)Get the f*ck out! We've extended the help and what a year of assistance and you still can't get off your ass and get back on your feet?
It time for them to get the F*CK OUT!
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-02 04:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-05 04:05 pm (UTC)There is no way someone can approach job hunting like that and still be unemployed a year later.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-05 04:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-05 04:09 pm (UTC)There was a couple of lovely audio clips on the radio this morning from some of the lazy asses saying that if their benefits were stopped they would "have to get our hussle on" and if they thought there was crime before, just wait.
nice.
We have lots of lovely people from NOLA that are here and working and are either going to stay or wait until they can move back home and work and live there. Those are certainly not the one's pissing me off.
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Date: 2006-09-06 04:14 am (UTC)