Bayou Bastards

Nawlins is setting up bouncers and red ropes on all the entrances into town.

Chron.com | New Orleans says evacuees won't get free ride

New Orleans doesn't want its poorest residents back — unless they agree to work.

That was the message from three New Orleans City Council members who said government programs have "pampered" the city's residents for too long.

The news that some New Orleans City Council members weren't keen on the city's poorest returning home added another layer of discomfort in Houston, where local residents and elected officials alike have stretched to meet the needs of thousands of Louisiana residents in the months after Hurricane Katrina.

Chief among the complaints: Houston didn't discriminate when New Orleanians — from the poorest to the richest — filled this city's homes, hotels, motels and shelters. And Houston didn't flinch when nearly 100,000 evacuees needed subsidized housing for up to a year. So why, asked one Houston city councilman, are only the educated, healthy and employable welcome back in New Orleans?

What a bunch of fucking numbnuts...you call having everything you owned washed away by incompetence as much as by nature being "pampered"? Living in filth at the Superdome while rich white folks get first dibs on the bus outta town is being "pampered"? Shades of the WSJ calling the poor who pay no taxes "lucky ducks," as if picking undigested beans from yesterday's shit so you have something to eat today is being "pampered." Bigoted bastards.

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