posted by Chris @ 9/28/2005 04:07:00 PM  
Hurricane Katrina Notes

I talked with a couple New Orleans evacuees today. They couldn't say enough good things about the Coast Guard. The ones I talked with were at a Salvation Army shelter near the Superdome. From their five-story building, they witnessed countless Coast Guard helicopter rescue missions. After a couple of days they too were plucked from their building by a Coast Guard helo.

The evacuees moved in to an apartment complex in Dallas this weekend. About fifty families moved in. Before, the apartment complex was about half full, mostly of illegal aliens from Mexico. Now, according to a manager at the complex, the illegals are upset that the "Americans" are getting more handouts than they are. The illegals are grumbling about all of the donations (food, money, clothes, furniture, etc.) that the American evacuees are receiving.

I don't think it's too cold-blooded to suggest that we kick all of the illegals out of the complex and ship them back to Mexico to make more apartments available for American evacuees.

My son works at a leather jacket store. He said that three obnoxious evacuees visited the store with FEMA money at the ready. After much loud and abrasive behavior, they bought two expensive NASCAR leather jackets, but only after making abrasive demands for discounts and a waver of paying taxes on the sale. By the way, temps have been in the 90s and 100s for the past couple of weeks in Dallas.

On a related note, my son says that the illegals from Mexico love leather jackets, and they pay with cash from rolls of one hundred dollar bills. He says they never have change, just one hundred dollar bills. I explained to him that illegals don't have deductions on their wages, so all of their wages are free and clear. Their wages are "off the books" so they don't make, for example, $421.35, after deductions. They're paid with one hundred dollar bills. Must be nice. Maybe the illegals should think twice before getting upset about the Katrina evacuees' benefits.

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