If you are in New Orleans or on the Gulf Coast and don't have a job, it's most likely either you are physically or mentally incapable, or you just don't want to work. In New Orleans, they are complaining that out of state workers are taking the jobs (and even illegal aliens). Even Burger King is offering 6000 dolar bonuses for anyone who stays a year.
Paul at Wizbang (whom I think lives down there) notes:
Meanwhile our public officials are whining 24/7 in the media that contracts are going to out of state companies who will hire out of state workers. I really wonder what planet they are on. There are simply not enough people in town to fill the jobs we have!
The problem is that many of our people lost everything and have no place to live in town. We don't need politicians whining about out of state hires, we need temporary housing. Desperately.
As a Conservative, I'm leery, but I also know that a temporary safety net is usually in our best interests. I'm not sure how smart is is to rebuild a place that will most likely have to be rebuilt again at some point in the future.
On the other hand, it looks like we are determined to rebuild it and if so, then we need to build some temporary housing with one caveat. Give it a time limit and tear it down. Don't let it become a disaster in its own right.
But given the Left's penchant for insisting we remain in the slumlord business by giving people permanently subsidized housing, I suspect anything temporary will become permanent.
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