Well Houston, we have finally hit the Big Time!
The New York Times has slandered Houston!
As reported by KTRK ABC13, The New York Times ran a story claiming that Houston is a profiteer (or at least profiting) from the Katrina disaster. But if an above the fold story wasn’t enough to drag the good name of our city through the mud, it then re-print and augmented the story in The International Herald Tribune, which is published by the Times in Paris.
That’s Paris, France folks; not Paris, Texas.
Here are the quotes in the international version, starting with the first line of the article:
"No one would accuse this city of being timid in the scramble to profit from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina."
Later, it says: "A surge of business activity in Houston might lift the fortune of a city that is still struggling to recover from the collapse of Enron and two decades of job cuts in the energy industry."
But the best item used by both papers was to compare “a Houston real estate company to ambulance chasers for offering special financing to hurricane victims.”
What a bunch of nice people those New York Times people are…….. It doesn’t matter if we, as a society, people, city or what have you, have opened our hearts and wallets to the victims of this tragedy, the New York Times still can’t find it in their heart, or at least the editors and writers can’t find it in their hearts, to at least acknowledge the contributions made. Somehow, they have to take a shot at us………
But then again, you can never accuse the New York Times of trying to make money, because they seem to lose so much of it.
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I think the NY Times missed the point. My theory is, the Democrat base here in Houston has been getting smaller and smaller with Rpublicans beginning to gain more power. Enter Bill White and his offer to house thousands of potential Democrat voters. All they need is a free lunch and a check and voila they are loyal Democrats ready to be bussed to the polls. This might be Democrat recruiting at its finest. Too bad Rick Perry fell for it. Remember, Democrats love handing out OPM.
That article says stock around 40, that was in Jan.05- today down to 32.
Let them keep it coming, keep following the blind man you eventually fall in a hole
Like we need a slew of evacuees to boost the Real Estate? Why would we need that, the illegal immgrants are handling that quite well.
Man, I guess I am a yokel. Giving money with the thought of helping other people in need. To think that all along I could have been getting rich from this whole deal… now I’m really kicking myself.
You know what guys… they just don’t matter anymore (if they ever did to us).
I think if a disaster ever came over the city of NY; we here in Texas would help them out. I think they would still give us grief down here, just because a lot of us are conservative…..
Oops… That’s right we did help them out…
Feel sorrow and pity for them.
We are great no matter what the “Times” says!!!
When I last checked, NYC’s first reaction was to whine about gas prices instead of opening up shelters to house Katrina victims.
Also, there’s a gaping hole in Lower Manhattan that NYC hasn’t bothered to put anything in besides a second-class subway station. Leave New Orleans’ reconstruction to New York City and Donald Trump, and you’ll have a half-way working seaport by the year 2020 or so.
The New York Times can say what they want about our great city….meanwhile ‘The American Thinker’ has drawn an interesting contrast between ol’ New Orleans and upstart rival, Houston, vastly separated by culture, climate, and demeanor, now inextricably linked by tragedy:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4784
“Many years ago, an oilman in Houston pointed out to me that there was no inherent reason Houston should have emerged as the world capital of the petroleum business. New Orleans was already a major city with centuries of history, proximity to oil deposits, and huge transportation advantages when the Houston Ship Channel was dredged, making the then-small city of Houston into a major port. The discovery of the Humble oil field certainly helped Houston rise as an oil center, but the industry could just as easily have centered itself in New Orleans.
When I pressed my oilman informant for the reason Houston prevailed, he gave me a look of pity for my naiveté, and said, “Corruption.” Anyone making a fortune in New Orleans based on access to any kind of public resources would find himself coping with all sorts of hands extended for palm-greasing. Permits, taxes, fees, and outright bribes would be a never-ending nightmare. Houston, in contrast, was interested in growth, jobs, prosperity, and extending a welcoming hand to newcomers. New Orleans might be a great place to spend a pleasant weekend, but Houston is the place to build a business.
Today, metropolitan Houston houses roughly 4 times the population of pre-Katrina metropolitan New Orleans, despite the considerable advantage New Orleans has of capturing the shipping traffic of the Mississippi basin.
It is far from a coincidence that Houston is now absorbing refugees from New Orleans, and preparing to enroll the children of New Orleans in its own school system. Houston is a city built on the can-do spirit (space exploration, oil, medicine are shining examples of the human will to knowledge and improvement, and all have been immeasurably advanced by Houstonians). Houston officials have capably planned for their own possible severe hurricanes, and that disaster planning is now selflessly put at the disposal of their neighbors to the east.”
I am no longer amazed at what the NY Times, or their affiliates, will publish. I see nothing but giving coming out of this city.
As far as the 2 companies mentioned specifically, I work for one of them; I suppose that even though we are at the top of the field in getting oil producing and refining equipment back online that we were supposed to say, “Sorry, we just don’t want that job; find someone else”. That’s just an idiotic sentiment. I guess this was just another conspiracy cooked up between the President and the oil companies….
There is an error in your story. It is this…”the New York Times still can’t find it in their heart”. This is an erroneous presumption that the New York Times editorialistas have a heart.
That’s nothing. Old Howard Dean thinks that the response was motivated by race. Is he talking about 98% white Vermont and how they haven’t taken in anyone???? No he is talking about all the racists in the south that have been dangling out of helicopters for the last 7 days!
40 acres and a mule. Or was it a $2000 debit card, free housing for 18 months, etc. Can’t even find a good dealer in Dickinson any more - they’re all hanging out around the Astrodome now that cash flows around there easier than muddy water in the Mississippi.
Yes, we’ll be getting filthy rich off the numbers of additional students in our schools, additional security expenses from law enforcement, lost productivity (on paper) due to people leaving their jobs for days to go volunteer, lost opportunity cost as people spend their disposable income on supplies for total strangers in need, unpaid medical treatment never to be reimbursed,…
And we’d do it all over again in a heartbeat, wouldn’t we? Greedy, selfish, cold-hearted, profiteering population that we are… I went down today to the Convention Center just to monitor my investment in Houston’s economic boom.
Dumping 300k homeless,jobless on Houston will only be a boom to the poverty pimps and lawyers who make millions off these people. I bet the tough smart lawyer is trolling for business in the Dome right now. There has to be somebody to sue for any hurricane trama. Like the tough smart lawyer says “I’ll get everything coming to you!”
Ann Coulter recently made a comment about New Yorkers saying “the savages have declared war, and it’s far preferable to fight them in the streets of Baghdad than in the streets of New York (where the residents would immediately surrender).”
All you could hear was this great moan/whine from the left about her comment.
Now the NYT’s has made the most repulsive statements, aside from Kayne West, since Katrina’s landfall and there hasn’t been so much a raised eye brow.
The NYT’s can take a flying leap at a rolling donut as far as I’m concerned. They are as mentally bankrupt as the rest of the 13% who are always against our Country and our President.
rj
Didn’t the NYT get its new headquarters location through eminent domain?
Talk about scrambling to profit from the real estate bubble disaster that is Manhattan!