New Orleans again nation's murder capital

[Texas_Bryan]

my old home!!! 

That's where your boy's at right now.  I'm pretty sure San Antone should be on that top list though, Austin's getting worse too.  Big night club shooting last week.  Guess who done it?  Alot of the hurricane folks are settling down here in the Austin area, and bringing their Louisiana ways with them.

[fightingquaker13]

That's where your boy's at right now.  I'm pretty sure San Antone should be on that top list though, Austin's getting worse too.  Big night club shooting last week.  Guess who done it?  Alot of the hurricane folks are settling down here in the Austin area, and bringing their Louisiana ways with them.

Thats too bad When I was there the only thing you had to worry about was greasy enciladas or strapping the beer goggles on too tight at Antones around last call. I swear, I had a CPL and never once carried on my person, just didn't feel the need. San Antonio and Houston were very different stories.
FQ13

[Rastus]

I grew up 45 miles outside of New Orlean and acquired a graduate engineering degree from Tulane University whilst living in New Orleans.  I spent a week there at my folks starting Tuesday night after Katrina and I did chase gangsta's from my folk's home.  People from the Great Society established in New Orleans are owed and want someone to come wipe their nose for them...across into Mississippi, which was harder hit, the people got to work and they have been good to go.  In Plaquemines Parish, adjacent and south of Orleans, the lack of welfare state made a much harder hit parish recover almost instantly on a scale compared to New Orleans.  The demographic difference between Plaquemines Parish and Mississippi as compared to New Orleans....the lack of welfare state.

How about they go earn it?

With all of the rebuilding in NO, there is undoubtedly no shortage of jobs, although personally I do not know the NO jobs situation. .............

Lots of money still flowing in, though it the end is near.

As liberal as NO is, it should be a nirvana, just like Detroit right? No poverty, no homeless, very little crime, just a great city.
.....Maybe William Jefferson D-La, the one with the cool cash in his freezer, could pull some out and contribute.

You would think, provided you were naive to believe liberal nonsense.  You bring a certain type of undeniable clarity to the discussion.

....and jobs in N.O.? a butt load of construction. some neighbors (from when I lived in Texas) haven't returned to Texas because of all the work.   DUH!!!!

Still, but many of the people in New Orleans (welfare recipients) don't want to work; they have refused to work.  They are welfare society people, they are owed and by golly you better give it to them.  Immediately after Katrina they were paying $12/hour for McDonald's, Wendy's, etc...with $1000 to $2000 sign on bonuses and many of the residents would not take the jobs.  They are, quite simply, too good for labor jobs...just ask them yourself.

The reason Hispanics were hired for the jobs was because no one in NO was applying for them, .........

Not entirely true, they applied, but then walked off when they found out they either, would not be running the show or would have to work to get paid.

I was there before and after katrina... the only diffrence, it smelled better afterwards.

You are definitely right on that.  It smelled like sewage when I used to drive in every morning.  I came in, generally, on I-10 from the West and about a mile from the Loyola Exit, still in the cypress swamp, the stench of the city would overpower the swamp.  Some of it has to do with the fact that you have a lot fewer people urinating and defecating outside in their neighborhoods when drunk and/or high....of course, at least some of you here won't believe that because you grew up in a "white bread" world and believe everyone embraces your culture...you think that kind of behaviour is small and isolated minority....you are right, of course.., because you say you are....