Do the displaced men of NOLA, even know that there are TONS

[SoCalDem]

of jobs in their home city...?? Is there a way to help THEM get back to claim those jobs? The men (and women who want those jobs) should be the ones housed on the cruise ships.. They should be offered those jobs FIRST


Undocumented workers are flooding into NOLA, and I have a feeling that there are LOTS orf NOLA men wandering around shelters all over the place, riding buses in their "new hometowns" looking fopr ANY work at all, so they can get out of the shelters..

Theis is just PLAIN WRONG.

[Lisa0825]

1. Some do.

I don't know how many are aware of it though. I worked all weekend in the Disaster Recovery Center in Houston. It's a pretty impressive place. It's not a shelter, but a humongous one-stop shop for recovery services. I was working at the Workforce Commission "office" there. Most people I talked to had no intention of going back. Some planned to go back, but their employers weren't back in business yet.

One guy said his employer wanted him to come back to work on the pumps, but he was worried about health and safety issues. I got him info on how to contact OSHA with his questions. He wanted to go back, but didn't want to sacrifice his health.

I gave info I saw here about Burger King paying sign-on bonuses to several people. A few said they'd love to go if they could find a clean place to live.

Information on places to live is pretty limited, and I think that is why most people who want to return are hesitant, unless the employer has something set up for them.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. Jesse Jackson is leading a group back to NOLA for this very thing.

Think I saw it on CBS this morning.

[SoCalDem]

3. They also need to DEMAND lodging on the cruise liners.

I would be afraid that they would be offered trailer housing and end up treated worse than the undocumented workers

[knowbody0]

4. and this is where our tax dollars should send government

bureaucrats to earn their salaries. this is just plain un american to exploit illegals and disregard like trash the citizens of these communities. halliburton is doing this in Iraq as well. corporations rule the world

[lastknowngood]

5. Just the way the repugs planned it.

n/t

[ret5hd]

6. i agree ...with a couple of caveats...(if that's the right word)

we know why the employers are hiring the undocumented workers rather than advertising (through the shelters, red cross, etc) the job openings to the displaced NO'ers...M.O.N.E.Y....G.R.E.E.D...C.O.R.R.U.P.T.I.O.N. These are the repug scum grifting their fortune at the expense of OUR society that WE bitch about daily on this board. The undocumented workers are doing no more than we would do to feed our own families in time of hardship.

1) if anyone is to suffer, let it be the EMPLOYERS that hire the undocumented workers. Make an example: HUGE fines, jail time, exclusion from further contracts, etc.

2) Offer those that accept the offer and stay employed a set amount of time FIRST SHOT at Habitat For Humanity style housing...neat tidy homes rebuilt on the grounds of their destroyed neighborhoods that the current gov't seems determined to empty for commercial interests.

[KoKo]

7. Agree, and saw interview with a NO's City Councilman who was saying

JUST what you say this morning in an interview with Pop Tart Soledad and
"kinda redeeming Miles" where he was saying the NO's City Council is putting in "Stop" to "deny permits" for the "Halliburton Types" who want to come in. In other words, he's working to make sure that those who want to come back and are able to "WORK" will get the jobs before the Bushite Corps who have wormed and muscled their way into the contracts.

The fight according to this NO's Councilman is that "LOCAL AND STATE" take precidence over BUSH! I was clapping my hands at this guy. He also sort of "dissed" Nagin's NO's CASINO plan.

It was an interesting discussion in that Nagin's plan about bringing in Gambling is "weak" because who the hell wants to gamble in a city that's decimated. What about housing for the "Entertainment and Food that Gambling patrons feel is part of the whole "experience." The discussion between O'Brien (Miles) and the Councilman was that "Gambling" without the "side amenities" is NOT going to bring back the health and infrastructure of NO's.

I wish I could remember the Councilman's name...but I was much more impressed by his plans for NO's than Nagin...whom I've come to really dislike. :shrug:

[Pepper32]

8. Well...

I can imagine that the NOLA men and women that were shocked and awed (witnessed the horrible aftermath of Katrina) are AFRAID to go back. I am really worried about the psychological impact of all this.

Also, many are separated from their families and are still looking for missing family members. How do you function under this type of depression and stress?

No doubt, RW'ers are capitalizing off of their misfortune (as planned) it's wrong on so many levels.

Eventually many will gather strength from somewhere and go back. Once the grieving ends and the fighting back begins. I just hope there are still some jobs left when this happens.