Via the
Dead Pelican we
learn:Katrina fatigue erupted into anger and frustration Wednesday night, as more than 1,700 west Houston residents urged Mayor Bill White to send evacuees home to New Orleans. One year after the city of Houston welcomed at least 250,000 evacuees, more than 100,000 New Orleans natives still remain. West Houston residents who gathered Wednesday at Grace Presbyterian Church to address increases in violent crime over the past year in their community said evacuees are to blame.
But, but, but... I thought former First Lady Babs Bush
said things were going to "work out well" for the evacuees. The famous Texan hospitality was so overhwhelming... that many evacuees were going to move there.
I guess the "welcome" has been worn out. I wonder what the
bible says about "hospitality" towards afflicted sojourners?
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Update: Oh, and
"Thanks Allstate", as well, for being snivelling little greedheads to the Homans.
Their story makes it to CNN.
18 Comments:
Qustion, are there really more than 100,000 "evacuees" in Houston? And if so, are all on the public dole? It seems like if you added up the number of evacuees each city complains about, the number would be greater than the total population loss of New Orleans.
New Orleans evacuees in Houston are complaining about how badly they are being treated, and how they have become victims of hate and crime. So who is right?
bigshot makes a great point.
Also, I"m disappointed, Mistah Oystah. I thought we had already established that the correct way to do the title of your post is THANKS HOUSTON. All caps. No comma. The people who created the bumper sticker were too stupid to use correct punctuation or to unstick the ALL CAPS KEY.
C'mon. Let's MOVE FORWARD together.
INDEED.
This suggestion by the esteemed Houston mayor and noble residents of west Houston would seem more acceptable if they actually had homes to return to in New Orleans.
I love it when people generalize. Are all of the estimated 110 to 120K people remaining in Houston gangs of thugs who are riding public funds? While I'm sure many are milking the FEMA relief monies, I imagine a lot of honest people are trying to rebuild their lives. If true, to lump them all together to strengthen their numbers is a bit disingenuous. If they're breaking the law, throw them in jail. After reading the statistics, it looked like they had a crime problem regardless of the evacuees. Citywide, 203 non-Katrina-related homicides in an 8-month period. Katrina related homicides do seem to increase significantly in specific districts. This indicates pockets of problems as evidenced by the local church meeting but the tone of the article suggests a citywide dilemma. It's not fair to grandstand and tell all evacuees to go home since the crime rate has increased. Perhaps they should be working together to solve the problem and create a new community rather than isolating New Orleanians as outsiders who have brought trouble.
P.S. More police to enforce traffic laws? Are Katrina victims worse drivers too? Wait, I think I answered my own question.
Texas has no problems with law abiding working citizens. The criminals that are there doing nothing but sucking off Texas taxpayers and criminals, need to go home. Funny how LA tolerated crime and laziness, and look where you are, last in every ranking. Texans will not put up with and look where we are. Take your citizens back, we don't want them or your whining. Texas helped out many from LA and many were thankful, many are biting the hand that is feeding them.
How bad are these evacuees to be asked to leave Houston, Ninth in crime in US cities.
Anonymous:
Where should we send these Katrina criminals, considering they have no home? Should we send them to Dallas or Denver? Or Lake Charles? Do you have any idea how bad things are in New Orleans at this very moment? Maybe you should pay a visit to their ruins or, better still, help them rebuild so they can leave your precious city. Or perhaps some of the Texas-based companies that have profited from the Katrina no-bid contracts can help pay for their removal.
I'm not trying to be an ass but these people can't go back to their old way of life. Again, they don't have a home in New Orleans since their residences have been destroyed.
The article refers, on several occasions, to the total number of hurricane evacuees remaining in Houston, not just those commiting crimes. If only one person was involved in each of the 59 murder cases reportedly related to Katrina, that constitutes 0.0004 percent of the article-reported 120K Katrina victims still residing in Houston. Of course, this does not include potential multiple offenders and this assumes one person per homicide. Do you think 20 percent of the 120K Katrina evacuees living in Houston are involved in armed robbery, a statistic not reported in this article? That would be 24,000, an alarmingly high number. Then I fail to see how the remaining 120K evacuees are crippling Houston. It's awfully convenient to have scape-goat, isn't it?
Then, if you have any data as to the estimated percentage of persons abusing FEMA monies in Houston, please present the data. I'm not trying to be a jerk, just curious. I'm not doubting that people are in fact abusing the system and I agree they need to be dealt with but are all of the 120K reported causing problems? Probably not, which means that most New Orleans evacuees are good law-abiding citizens, something not inferred in the article.
Question: Will you send native Houstonians who commit crimes to another state to rid yourself of their problems? After all, as you say, Texans will not put up with the problem. Maybe we should designate North Dakota as THE federal prison and send all non-law abiding citizens there; then we would have no crime.
You should be careful who you tell to go home. Many may want to stay in Houston and be productive citizens. But removing all Katrina evacuees will not alleviate your problems. The article, as well as your statements, seem to generalize a great many things.
Oh, and, get off your high horse. I lived in Dallas for 6 months after Katrina and your state is no better than LA.
Texas only wants the criminals and loafers to go home. Period. But twist anyway you want. Fact is New Orleans always has had high crime and citizens there tolerated it, Texas will not. Blanco says plenty of jobs in NO, those that can't find work in Texas can go back to NO. Denial and excuses, LA is famous for it. And where is your Mayor, spending city tax dollars on a busted trip to NY. He needs to go back and stay in NO also, clean up his city. Keep on making excuses, how many people from Texas, NY will visit your city now after how they have been treated and talked about. Never a thank you, always gimme more.
11 News has learned more about an agreement between the mayors of Houston and New Orleans to send back to Louisiana any evacuees who commit serious crimes here.
Mayor White hopes the proposal will appease some angry Houstonians.
The agreement was first mentioned publicly in a heated meeting Wednesday night on Westside crime.
"We want the New Orleans residents to go home," said one frustrated resident.
One year after Katrina, Houston's welcome mat appears to be fraying around the edges.
"Our taxes are too high to be putting up with this mess," a Westchase resident told Mayor White Wednesday.
The "mess" is the rise in violent crime which coincided with the arrival of Katrina evacuees.
"We know the stats. We feel the stats," another resident said.
And there was nothing the mayor could say to appease them.
About 250,000 people from New Orleans came here seeking shelter.
Houston residents opened their arms and now many feel they got their pockets picked -- or worse.
"We're paying $150,000 a year for security," complained another Westchase resident.
Mayor Bill White has been working for months behind the scene in a search for a new justice for any Katrina evacuee arrested and convicted of a crime.
"I'd like to see 'em sent back to Louisiana so they could serve out their sentence in Louisiana prisons," said Mayor White.
That would allow the State of Texas to separate out the bad apples and send them back to Louisiana.
"I talked to Mayor Nagin about it and told him it was the fair thing to do, the right thing to do," explained Mayor White. "And he said -- right here in this room six weeks ago -- that he agreed."
Mayor White hopes the proposal will cool tempers.
http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou060901_mh_evacueeparolees.59c13f60.html
maybe west houston is tired of the increased crime rates. check out those numbers.
so - mr. liberal elite -
really. send them packing. send them to cuba. lock them up with snake pliskin.
"you don't need to be a weather man to know which way the wind blows."
LA continues to rank at the bottom of all the positive lists in comparison to the other states and at the top of all the negative lists. We can sit and pout about how unfairly LA is treated, but we can’t kill all the messengers. It is immaterial that it is all perception. Perception by the entire country is reality. Sooner or later, we must address the problems that everyone sees, but us.
In the final analysis, the only people we are fooling are ourselves. Perhaps we need a rush shipment of mirrors to replace those broken by the aftermath of Katrina so that we can clearly see the problem.
It’s time to demand that immediate problems like high and punitive taxes, un-affordable insurance, bureaucratic red tape, public corruption and an attitude that it is more important who one knows as opposed to what is right and wrong and lawful, be addressed. Until those matters are not only addressed, but fixed, we don’t have enough bullets to kill all the messengers.
We continue to elect the same people to public office, but expect positive change. That’s insanity!
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