Mayor Bill White is either dangerously ignorant or willfully dishonest:

“In Houston, generally, we are not very tolerant of the small minority of people who came here from the New Orleans area who are able-bodied and haven’t found a job yet.”

The Los Angeles Times took a look at that “small minority” earlier this week:

A Gallup Organization survey sponsored by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, due to be released soon, found that 251,000 evacuees still live in the state. Of adults, 59 percent were unemployed, and 54 percent were still receiving housing subsidies.

Pollsters have also analyzed the “small minority”:

Neither the city nor FEMA track unemployed evacuees, but a Zogby poll commissioned by the city in March found that 85 percent of the 606 evacuees surveyed were out of work. Sixty percent said they were looking for jobs.

It’s time for the mayor to admit the severity of the problem. As long as he keeps glossing over the fact that we’ve imported a poor, uneducated, unemployed underclass, things are just going to get worse.