Don't know what I found yet.....

This town is nutz...

Imagine a city with soo much work that anyone who wants work, can get it, and have it pay well. Burger King and Mc Donalds are paying $9 an hour. This may not seem like a lot to people in big West and East cities, but down here in the third world South, that is big cash. About $3/hr more than two years ago.

I can't understand why there are homeless people here. They were all evacuated 2yrs ago during the storm. They were given shelter, clothes, money, treatment for mental illness, most were given houses, jobs (easy jobs) and set-up with moderate lifestyles. Yet, this city has seemed to accumulate a 2% unemployment rate, and 10,000 homeless (probably more).

These stats PISS ME OFF!!!

If you want to work, you can find work in this area.

Here are the rules:

1) Come in to work on time

2) Come into work on a daily basis, Monday-Friday ususally works.....

3) Don't come in to work drunk, high, stoned, or otherwise fucked up. Hung over is acceptable as long as you don't fall asleep on the clock.

IS THIS SO HARD???!!!!

I get so irritated when someone walks up to me, asks me to give them some money and then exclaimes that there is no work around. I look at them, shake my head and tell them to get off of the sofa, turn off the TV and get a work ethic.

I used to feel sorry for people like this, but right now there is essentially NO unemployment here in the metro New Orleans area.

If you want to work, make a difference, and have cash in you pocket, come on!!!

The main thing that is making it hard to rebuild here is the fact that that the Federal Government hasn't rebuilt the protection levees and floodwalls that keep the water out during storms. Those levees and walls and levees have been their responsibility since the 60's because THEY TOOK THE RESPONSIBILITY for them away from the local governments because they felt that locals couldn't handle the responsibilty.

Boy they screwed that up......

Before ANYONE blames the Bush administration, bear this in mind- The Reagan Administration increased the budget here locally to improve floodwall and levee protection by some $200 million a year for 15 years. The Clinton administration reversed this and cut the corps budget by over $4 BILLION dollars a year for 10 years. They specifically targeted the budget to maintain the levees and floodwalls here in Louisiana and northern California.

This is just some food for thought for those of you who are still capable of thinking.....