be expecting this after rita.

Thats not true KC, thats just what the news told you.

I live here, i was affected by it, and I know people
who have Masters degrees who lost just as much
as the guy who works down at the paper mill with an
8th grade education.

Along the coast, just as many mansions were swept to
sea as there were low rent apartments.

It wasnt the poor most effected, but all of us.

as about the whole nationalist thing, just for
the record, i was making a joke =P

 

Lots of jobs were lost, but most blue collar jobs
like construction, and presently demolition, are
ok, the ship yard was ruined and that put a lot out
of work, and all the casinos, people from janiorial
up to the Vice President of Advertising, lost their job.

Heres the thing though, the janitor can get a job anywhere,
the games dealers and slot techs have to leave town if they
want to work at casinos for awhile, and the lower corporate
jobs like mine, up to the VP are pretty much out of luck, we
are specialized, and I cant move.

SO lower class, middle class and upper class all lost jobs.

 

but the people of the lowest classes tend to have the least to draw from in terms of financial security and the ability to bounce back. the people with the least to their names are the ones who value what little they have the most. ever wonder why the crappiest, poorest neighborhoods often have the meanest, nastiest gaurd dogs? yeah, that' janitor can go anywhere, but how's he gonna get his family there on an empty bank account?

 

Yes, as I said, I do feel so much for those people!

 

No different than calling it an Arkansas Credit Card. Still generalizing.

P.S. No one really gives a fuck.

 

I read about the "poorest" of New Orleans that
were left behind, they were apparently $20k below
the national income average, and that is why
they were in such poverty.

Their average income was 2K more than i make
a year, and I am doing just fine.

Granted, i live an hour and a half from them,
and not in a major city, but there cant be that
much of a difference in the cost of living that
they are horribly poor, and I own a house,
land and three cars.

People make with what they have. You
can have alot and be poor as hell depending
on your priority in life, and your spending habit.
I dont even have a savings account, let alone
nothing in it, for the past month i havent received
a check from my job, have lived of the last $500
we had to our name, and just a few days ago
received the first government aid that we could get.

So i dont want to hear about all the poor people,
because, so it seems, i am one of them, and I am fine.

As far as people losing their homes? It is just as hard
for a rich man to rebuild his home as it is a poor man.
They both have insurance, and access to the same
government help.

The media is putting a bad spin on it. We were all made
even in this storm, the classes merged when they lost it all.