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What Becomes Of Relocated Refugees?
Is it possible to move an entire region's population overnight, scattering them all across America?
With the immediate needs of Hurricane Katrina's refugees quite obvious, it's fascinating to watch this unprecedented relocation effort. A Seattle Times graphic today demonstrates just how generous American states have been.
Very few aren't expecting Gulf residents, with the glaring exception of Blue New England, where only Massachusetts will be taking them (2500 to Cape Cod this week through an effort led by Gov. Mitt Romney).
New York and New Jersey have also sat out this human airlift.
Even Washington state, about as far away from Louisiana as one can be on the American mainland, is taking in thousands.
While there don't seem to be many ideas about what to do once they arrive, not much time was available to map out a strategy.
Will they remain once children are enrolled in local schools, after new friends have been made and employment possibly obtained? Or will they want to return home for the rebuilding of their home towns?
It's hard to know what might happen, it's simply never before been done.
Also:
--- Will gas prices quickly settle back down? It looks that way today.
--- Common sense from Ball State U:
I feel a bit reluctant to write about Hurricane Katrina. After all, I didn’t lose any family or friends, my house or my car. The only thing Katrina made me lose is my patience.
I’ve lost patience with the chorus of groups whose first response to this disaster was to try to score political points against the Bush administration.
No, this is not the United States’ “comeuppance” for not signing the Kyoto Treaty — which, by the way, would have done little or nothing to stop “global warming” and everything to cripple the U.S. economy.
To those who’ve said Katrina wasn’t a tragedy — or that blue-staters shouldn’t donate relief — because Katrina hit red states, I have no words to express my disgust at your lack of humanity.
--- Radio's cruelty seems to know no limits. From RadioDailyNews today:
Fifteen minutes before he headed out the door on a Labor Day weekend, the acting PD telephoned me so I could 'hear it” (?) from him, rather from other sources. I was on the other phone with family; we had a brother stranded in the French Quarter, heart of the Katrina devastation, so I missed the call.
When I returned it -- no answer, everyone gone. They had all left for their 3-day weekend. Never did hear 'it' from him.
I turned on the station, heard another guy doing the liners. I got 'it.'
After being associated with KFRC for 33 years, I rated an afterthough 15 minutes before the long weekend.
---NBC's Bush outburst non-apology/apology seemed to please no one.
For updates on Hurricane relief efforts in the blogosphere, see Hugh Hewitt's site. Check here for the latest, or here for Michelle Malkin's suggestions.
Your Amazon orders help to support this site's efforts. Thanks!
What Becomes Of Relocated Refugees?
Is it possible to move an entire region's population overnight, scattering them all across America?
With the immediate needs of Hurricane Katrina's refugees quite obvious, it's fascinating to watch this unprecedented relocation effort. A Seattle Times graphic today demonstrates just how generous American states have been.
Very few aren't expecting Gulf residents, with the glaring exception of Blue New England, where only Massachusetts will be taking them (2500 to Cape Cod this week through an effort led by Gov. Mitt Romney).New York and New Jersey have also sat out this human airlift.
Even Washington state, about as far away from Louisiana as one can be on the American mainland, is taking in thousands.
While there don't seem to be many ideas about what to do once they arrive, not much time was available to map out a strategy.
Will they remain once children are enrolled in local schools, after new friends have been made and employment possibly obtained? Or will they want to return home for the rebuilding of their home towns?
It's hard to know what might happen, it's simply never before been done.
Also:
--- Will gas prices quickly settle back down? It looks that way today.
--- Common sense from Ball State U:
I feel a bit reluctant to write about Hurricane Katrina. After all, I didn’t lose any family or friends, my house or my car. The only thing Katrina made me lose is my patience.
I’ve lost patience with the chorus of groups whose first response to this disaster was to try to score political points against the Bush administration.
No, this is not the United States’ “comeuppance” for not signing the Kyoto Treaty — which, by the way, would have done little or nothing to stop “global warming” and everything to cripple the U.S. economy.
To those who’ve said Katrina wasn’t a tragedy — or that blue-staters shouldn’t donate relief — because Katrina hit red states, I have no words to express my disgust at your lack of humanity.
--- Radio's cruelty seems to know no limits. From RadioDailyNews today:
Fifteen minutes before he headed out the door on a Labor Day weekend, the acting PD telephoned me so I could 'hear it” (?) from him, rather from other sources. I was on the other phone with family; we had a brother stranded in the French Quarter, heart of the Katrina devastation, so I missed the call.
When I returned it -- no answer, everyone gone. They had all left for their 3-day weekend. Never did hear 'it' from him.
I turned on the station, heard another guy doing the liners. I got 'it.'
After being associated with KFRC for 33 years, I rated an afterthough 15 minutes before the long weekend.
---NBC's Bush outburst non-apology/apology seemed to please no one.
For updates on Hurricane relief efforts in the blogosphere, see Hugh Hewitt's site. Check here for the latest, or here for Michelle Malkin's suggestions.
Your Amazon orders help to support this site's efforts. Thanks!
published by Brian Maloney at
15:08
2 Comments:
Unless we want these people to become double victims, it would be nice to ween them off government programs and the victimization mindset inculcated by "liberals".
By
LonewackoDotCom, at 07 September, 2005 01:27
Well, Brian - they've refused to come here.
Reading the Cape Cod Times editorial page Bush Bashing, it seems entirely possible that they'd rather stay in the Astrodome than relocate to our snotty, condescending ultra-blue state.
It's a shame when the Liberati impair our ability to help - I hope they'll at least give money.
By
Peter Porcupine, at 07 September, 2005 13:24
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