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Originally Posted by Jefferson  There's no way to prove that, other than by having access to welfare records that are protected by privacy rights - and you know it.
But please explain to me WHY these New Orleans evacuees are such criminals? And don't give me the old, "They can't get jobs" BS. It doesn't fly. There are jobs EVERYWHERE.
Criminals are criminals wherever they live.
Hard workers are hard workers wherever they live.
It's time to stop making cry-baby excuses for these people who are STILL unemployed over a year after they were "displaced". There's NO MAGIC WAND!
They need to get off their lazy asses and get jobs. Period! | So that was pure speculation on your part, which is not really a good debating tactic. And there are aggregate statistics published by local governments which do not use individual welfare records, except to count them. This is the type of statistics that I'd expected you to find.
As for "why these New Orleans evacuees are such criminals"... well, I try not to generalize about people. Sometimes they change. And we don't know each person's situation. We don't know that those who are still unemployed are sitting on their "lazy asses" expecting someone else to support them. We haven't interviewed them.
I myself respond better to encouragement than to criticism. Perhaps others do as well.
I do sense in your tone that you are angry about the situation. Why? |