The "new homeless" present a HUGE problem to the admin

[SoCalDem]

See , when they were all holed up in the poor section of New Orleans, they could be ignored (except for the election years, when re-pubes remind them to vote on the wrong day).For the most part, they stayed to themselves and managed their lives the best they could. Most were too poor to travel far from their own neighborhoods.

That has all changed now. They are going to HAVE to be dispersed to other places. The new destinations are keenly aware that to refuse to take some of them would create a nasty backlash, so places are reluctantly accepting "certain numbers", but only to group settings where they will be corralled and kept together.

Keeping them together is not for their comfort, it's to prevent them from "blending in" with the general public of their new hometown.These other cities know full well that no one is going back to New orleans anytime soon..if ever. Every town in America is stretched to the limit when it comes to social services, and once a little time passes, the feds will NOT be reimbursing these localities for the services of these new residents.

The poor people being shuttled around on the "Stadium Tour" are not homeowners...they are renters. The owners of the places they lived will certainly not rebuild with FEMA money, to house poor people. The land owners will probably not even rebuild, but will sell their newly cleared land to someone else. If and when New orleans is refashioned, the land once used by the poorest, will be elevated and "pimped up" so that top dollar can be had for the digs there. There will be no new homes or apartments built to house 100K poor people who "used to live there".

If the receiving towns can somehow keep these people corralled together they can keep them in view, and hold them apart as a separate entity..one that can be passed on to the next place willing to accept them, when their care and feeding becomes too burdensome, or when their constituents threaten to oust them from office.

It's Human Hot Potato ..pass them on..

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. I'm sure that when Bush said today

that he was going to rebuild the Gulf Coast with fantastic houses, he wasn't planning to budget anything for public housing.

[Skittles]

3. OK I have to ask

did that incompetent bastard REALLY say that? JAYSUS.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. He even told Trent Lott

that he was going to build him an even fancier house then the one he had before the storm.

[Skittles]

2. yes, poor people have never really existed for republicans

now they are out there front and center for the entire world to see

[wli]

4. Here comes REX 84...

[maine_raptor]

5. There is plenty of room for them in this great land

Why I know of a 1600 acre ranch in a state next door that could house hundreds, if not thousands.

[wellstone_democrat]

6. yep, and listen to this:

I was in Lubbock today and on the news they were talking about 1000 going to the former Reese AFB to live in one barracks and a hanger. Now, what is interesting is this:

the Mayor is a realtor and the biggest landlord in the city and vacancies are so low in the city that there are signing incentives for leases. Yet, no apartments---storage.

[SoCalDem]

10. Yessir..keep them "corralled" so they can be monitored

:puke:

[Solomon]

8. Nope. They will be put in Refugee Camps built by Halliburton.

Mark my words. That's why they were so quick to label them Refugees.
That means a lot of them will be housed in camps.

[ultraist]

9. I think you are right.

NOLA will be totally gentrified ("pimped up") because when they go to rebuild, insurance money, federal grant money, and no bid contracts will come into play. They will not rebuild lower income housing.

People of NOLA will forever be displaced from their home, seperated from families. What does THAT remind us of? In fact, this whole incident, bears an eerie resemblance to slave ships and slavery.