New Orleans homeless pushed into barrack

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS - Since Hurricane Katrina flooded his home 30 months ago, Donald Collins says, he has fled to an evacuation center, huddled in an abandoned house and lived in a tent outside City Hall. Eventually the former sanitation worker migrated to a downtown underpass where crack sales and clothing donations seem equally common.

Mayor Ray Nagin has another stop in mind for Collins and about 200 other people who have been squatting there for months: a military-style barrack that critics say is short on long-term solutions to a homeless epidemic.

"I'm not going," Collins, 52, said as he gulped a beer at 10:30 a.m. on a Monday, describing himself as a Katrina-inspired alcoholic on a waiting list for subsidized housing. "Something else will turn up."

Nagin vowed to use health and safety codes to move the men and women living underneath the stretch of Interstate 10 known as the Claiborne Avenue bridge to the tarp-covered facility that was awaiting fire inspections. Aware of the camp's proximity to the French Quarter and other tourist destinations, the mayor wants the move done by the end of the week.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080227/ap_on_re_us/katrina_homeless

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. As George Carlin said - "How about a war on HOMELESSNESS?"

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Now THERE is a war worth waging.

Any politicians down there up to it?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. But there's no money in it.

It's hard to get the war-profiters on board when there's no profits.

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. yup - that's exactly what Carlin said was the reason "But there's no money in it."

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But he ALSO said something to the effect that

"If the Korporate SWINE,

could figure out how to steal a few million bucks off of it for themselves,

You'd see things start to clean up pretty damn QUICK!"

but alas, I guess they never figured out how to make a buck offa it.