Our First Katrina Refugees

The state of Massachusetts scurried to open an unused national guard base to
house 2500 'guests', free of charge until March.

So far, they have had no takers.

"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
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Heck, they won't even go aboard cruise ships that are right there.

Bob Gardner

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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Jay Honeck wrote:

Interestingly, others in New Orleans have decided that Iowa doesn't
sound
so good to them:

A bunch of buses went down from DC and came back mostly empty as well.
Washington and Iowa aren't on the top of people's list to relocate to.

Ron Natalie wrote:

Jay Honeck wrote:

Interestingly, others in New Orleans have decided that Iowa doesn't
sound so good to them:

A bunch of buses went down from DC and came back mostly empty as well.
Washington and Iowa aren't on the top of people's list to relocate to.

DC I understand, but I wonder what the beef is with Iowa ... unless
they've been reading Jay's recent posts ... :-)

Matt

A bunch of buses went down from DC and came back mostly empty as well.
Washington and Iowa aren't on the top of people's list to relocate to.

DC I understand, but I wonder what the beef is with Iowa ... unless
they've been reading Jay's recent posts ... :-)

Well, given the number of states that have offered space -- and been ignored
or turned down -- perhaps the crisis is past?

Dunno, but doesn't it seem odd that folks are choosing to live in a flooded
cesspool rather than accepting free housing all over the country?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:PdKTe.332747$xm3.274353@attbi_s21...
Dunno, but doesn't it seem odd that folks are choosing to live in a
flooded cesspool rather than accepting free housing all over the country?

A number of elderly residents, in particular, have been reluctant to venture
to a new location:

***********
``I haven't left my house in my life. I don't want to leave,'' said a
frail-looking 86-year-old Anthony Charbonnet, shaking his head as he locked
his front door and walked slowly backwards down the steps of the house where
he had lived since 1955.
Charbonnet left only after a neighbor assured him: "Things will be OK. It'll
be like a vacation.'' Still protesting, Charbonnet stepped into the
ambulance in which soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division would
take him to a helicopter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlates...262051,00.html
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Jay Honeck wrote:

A bunch of buses went down from DC and came back mostly empty as well.
Washington and Iowa aren't on the top of people's list to relocate to.

DC I understand, but I wonder what the beef is with Iowa ... unless
they've been reading Jay's recent posts ... :-)


Well, given the number of states that have offered space -- and been ignored
or turned down -- perhaps the crisis is past?

Dunno, but doesn't it seem odd that folks are choosing to live in a flooded
cesspool rather than accepting free housing all over the country?

No, it doesn't. Accepting free housing all over the country means
leaving home and accepting change. These people are already going to
have to deal with more "change" than they ever wanted - they don't
want to add any more if they can help it.

These are people who cannot conceive of moving even to someplace like
Monroe, LA, because it would be so far from home and family, and it's
not just the under-educated that think this way. (My wife worked with
an engineer who turned down a job offer that would have involved an
equivalent scale of relocation because his wife thought this way.) It's
also an attidude that is not limited to the deep south - I've seen it
expressed even more forcefully in Appalachia.

To you and me the decision would be a no-brainer. These people aren't
you and me.

These are people who cannot conceive of moving even to someplace like
Monroe, LA, because it would be so far from home and family, and it's
not just the under-educated that think this way. (My wife worked with
an engineer who turned down a job offer that would have involved an
equivalent scale of relocation because his wife thought this way.) It's
also an attidude that is not limited to the deep south - I've seen it
expressed even more forcefully in Appalachia.

To you and me the decision would be a no-brainer. These people aren't
you and me.

It must be very limiting to be so tied to the land that you can't let go.

One of the greatest feelings of freedom I've experienced was when I realized
that "home" was a state of mind, and not a place.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Rich Lemert wrote:

These are people who cannot conceive of moving even to someplace like
Monroe, LA, because it would be so far from home and family, and it's
not just the under-educated that think this way. (My wife worked with
an engineer who turned down a job offer that would have involved an
equivalent scale of relocation because his wife thought this way.) It's
also an attidude that is not limited to the deep south - I've seen it
expressed even more forcefully in Appalachia.

To you and me the decision would be a no-brainer. These people aren't
you and me.

Monroe? Far to far north... brrrr

Jay Honeck wrote:

A bunch of buses went down from DC and came back mostly empty as well.
Washington and Iowa aren't on the top of people's list to relocate to.

DC I understand, but I wonder what the beef is with Iowa ... unless
they've been reading Jay's recent posts ... :-)


Well, given the number of states that have offered space -- and been ignored
or turned down -- perhaps the crisis is past?

Dunno, but doesn't it seem odd that folks are choosing to live in a flooded
cesspool rather than accepting free housing all over the country?

I don't know. I'd stay at my house in pretty dire circumstances. I'm
amazed that they are now throwing people out of their homes who wish to
stay. That just seems un-American to me.

Matt

I don't know. I'd stay at my house in pretty dire circumstances. I'm
amazed that they are now throwing people out of their homes who wish to
stay. That just seems un-American to me.

I agree. What seems truly horrible is that -- apparently in the interest of
"fairness"? -- they are now evicting people from their homes in areas of
N.O. that are NOT flooded.

That's just seems stupid, but I suppose it is the inevitable and ultimate
extension of not wanting to appear elitist or racist.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"As many as five people have died from bacterial infections caused by
the dirty water that Hurricane Katrina drove ashore last week, the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday."

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/0...YUE762791.html

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message news:eOLTe.283

I don't know. I'd stay at my house in pretty dire circumstances. I'm
amazed that they are now throwing people out of their homes who wish
to stay. That just seems un-American to me.

Matt