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.
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Look, everyone is afraid to call this what it really is……it is the result of years of bad choices by black people. While I realize there are some white folks also in the group, the VAST majority of these are black people who have been sold down the river by their own “leaders”. Black music glorifies pimps and thugs….Priscilla Slade teaching ACCOUNTING….Jesse Jackson talking about morals…….70% of black children born out of wedlock….25% of adult black males in prison….In 20 years the black race will be in such a state of disrepair that they may be facing extinction AT THEIR OWN HAND! And the whole time they will be blaming white people for their troubles…..Call me a bigot, but I speak the truth.
The money quote from the article:
The mayor says we are not very tolerant of those from New Orleans that are able bodied and still on the dole. IT HAS BEEN A YEAR, just how long are we supposed to be tollerant while a bunch of lazy people continue to use up Government resources which no return to the taxpayers? Just how long are we supposed to be tollerant when the bullets are flying and people are afraid to walk the street?
What ever happen to “welfare reform”? Apparently it passed those people in New Orleans by, so now they want to start all over again, here in Houston, doing the same thing—getting a government handout. How dare us, cut off a Democratic voting block!!!! Too bad, they can’t proclaim “Hey,we’re taxpayers, too!!!!”
#2 tellit: You’re no bigot.. it’s the truth in more instances than not.
One of the local Houston TV channels yesterday afternoon interviewed an NOLA refugee woman with a small child and she said that she just didn’t know what she was going to do now that the gubmint wasn’t going to pay her housing or send her a “welfare” check any longer. The interviewer was asking her softball questions trying to get the viewers to feel sorry for this 200-lb. plus person living in a high rise with a plasma TV and practically every convenience known to man. What I’d loved for her to be asked is questions like: “Have you made even a feeble attempt to get a job in the last year, If so what have you done? Whom did you talk to? What are your skills? Did you work when you lived in New Orleans? How much money do you get from the government every month for doing absolutely nothing? How many other kids do you have? Do you know who and where their fathers are? Why aren’t they helping support you?
etc, etc, etc.”
Necessity is not only the mother of invention, it is also the father of productivity. My husband and I have faced hard times but we never sat on our butts and waited for a handout. I could never even imagine what these people have been through, and I’m sure that recovering mentally took some time. But sometime during the last year, each and every one of the able-bodied became responsible for themselves. For some it, took a day, others a week, others maybe several months. But a year is more than sufficient to pull yourself together, especially with all the help that was extended by so many to help with recovery. If my child was content to sit at home without learning to support himself, you bet your sweet bippy that tough love would one day kick in and he would find his bags on the porch and the locks changed at some point.
Get a job.
Hey, come on! Houston has had years of experience importing poor, uneducated, unemployed underclass-types. If we can extend the same hand of friendship (”sanctuary city”)to our friends from Mexico, why not to actual Americans from Louisiana?
Yeah, well - same goes for them. Except if they are illegal, the job for them is to go home, fix their political and economic systems, and create a home where they don’t have to leave their families, their heritage, or their homes unless they WANT to do so. I think it’s horrific that so many families feel that they must uproot their families and undertake a potentially dangerous journey just to be able to make a living. That’s what you get from years of socialist government.
Good work, Matt. Instead of admitting the magnitude of the problem, the mayor wants to bamboozle the public into arguing that statistics show there is less crime than when he took over - and none of the media challenges him!
The lastest issue of the Texas Lawyer had an interesting chart showing the percentage of persons charged with crimes whose previous address was Louisiana. It is no surprise at the big difference in the pre- and post-Katrina numbers. For example, in August 2005, those with previous Louisiana addresses accounted for 4.9 percent of Harris County defendants. Katrina hit August 29. Houston’s good deed in “welcoming” evacuees was promptly punished. The very next month, September 2005, the number rose to 8 percent. It reached 9.5 percent in June 2006 (though fell to 8.6 percent in July, the last month listed).
From January through August 2005, the number never exceeded 5.3 percent. Since September 2005, the number was never LOWER than 7 percent. In three of those months, it exceeded 9 percent, and in six others, it was at least 8 percent, usually close to 9.
Despite the Chronicle’s statement this morning that non-murder statistics on this issue are “hard to come by” (showing only that the Chronicle ain’t much for research), there is a direct correlation between Katrina and the people committing many of the crimes.
Ok, as I see it, what we Houstonians have to deal with is this. Mayor White from day one has not been a friend of Houston. The man is a multi Millionaire. Why would he want the job. The City has not taken in any more money with him in office than it did with Lee P in office. Except in the area of Traffic tickets. Police were diverted from criminal investigations to “just right tickets. We need money.” How do I know. I’m the one Chief of “Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians” who was let go 6 months before I was vested. It’s all numbers juggling. From the moment Bill White stepped into office the spin has been on by his personal people as well as the Dept. of Special events, etc. All letterhead was changed form Lee P. Brown, Mayor to Mayor Bill White. They wanted to portray him as just, and I am qouting here, “Good old Mayor Bill”. I saw people placed into positions for no reason that do nothing. Everything that has happened since he became Mayor has been spun but The City & that Commie yellow rag of a newspaper this city has the Houston Comical. Between the 911 center and Katrina or anything else that has happened. Much the public doesn’t no about. His spin department will never let it be known that he or anyone close to him has ever made a mistake. And thanks to the likes of Chris Bell the democrates have realized a way to split the Republican vote and idiots like White will continue to be elected.
One year ago I was among some others on this blog who were commenting on the almost immediate spike in crime during 9/05. At that time, we were basically shouted down, censored, and told to shut up by David Benzion. Well, well, look at the chickens come home to roost. Mayor Mortimer Snerd and the rest of the Houston/Harris county power elites practically tripped over themselves last year in an attempt to get their mugs on the cover of Time and Newsweek while Ray Nagin laughed all the way to the bank. Nagin has turned out to be the smartest guy in the room. He got rid of all his criminals and scoflaws and now he has no intention of rebuilding the old “Chocolate City.” His new cosmopolitan city will be populated with highly-paid, tax-paying proffessionals and a much more lucrative tax-base. He will use freshly amnestied illegals to do all the dirty work while we Houstonians are stuck with the old NOLA welfare class he got rid of. Mortimer Snerd and the rest could have done something on the front end of this mass exodus to mitigate the problem, but no, that would have gotten in the way of them feeling oh so good about themselves and possibly putting a negative spin on their PR campaigns. Now, with the crime rate out of control, we are again told to basically shut up and live with Mortimer’s ill-advised decisions.
I was listening to the Elder Show earlier this week (he was out and had a sub in Ray - I can’t remember)and he Mayor White’s press aide on speaking about this very item. You should have heard him “dance” around the questions that the host was asking. He had the same attitude that Willy Nilly Billy had. “It’s not fair to say that about the people of New Orleans”. I wonder just how much the NOLA CoC is paying the mayors office to turn the blind eye(or “school bus Noggin”). I fully expect to see shootings when the landlords come to kick ‘em out.
I’d like to know what percentage of those evacuees that have not found work actually had a job before Katrina. Someone should make a tee shirt that says “I survived the Katrina media blast”.