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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 11:34 PM
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Job fair for Katrina evacuees; gotten this e-mail yet?
Just hit my e-box. One quick look at Snopes says Mer'kins are full of hate.

http://www.snopes.com/katrina/politics/jobfair.asp

Oh — and at the base of his e-mail template, this asspipe has a big "Support our troops" banner. :eyes:



Subject: Fwd: Commission setup a job fair for Katrina evacuees there were No shows none
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:12:52 -0600

What does this tell you?

Commission setup a job fair for Katrina evacuees there were No shows none

Just shows you they should have let the hurricane do its job Gary L

RichB wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: FEMA - Austin Jobs
>
>
>
> FEMA and the City of Austin, along with the Texas Workforce
> Commission setup a job training/hiring/interview/job fair
> for all the Katrina FEMA evacuees in the Austin area to be
> held at the ACC campus on Webberville Road in East Austin.
>
> Several of the evacuees said they had no transportation to
> get from the apartment complexes, private homes, hotels,
> motels, and inns where they are living. So the city of
> Austin-FEMA-TWC set up transportation for each of them to
> ensure they would be able to partake of the benefit of job
> searching.
>
> The transportation consisted of nine buses and vans, to run
> from four locations in Round Rock, and five locations in
> Austin, in continuing shuttles back and forth to the campus
> to ensure that the hundreds of people looking for jobs would
> be transported in comfort.
>
> The vehicles were brought to their residences; drivers
> knocked on the doors and every effort was made to ensure
> they knew the transportation was available for them.
>
> At the end of the day, the nine vans and buses transported a
> total of ONE person. Not one person per bus - one person
> total.
>
> The bill to FEMA was $7800.
>
> MORAL: Why work if someone else is paying your
> bills!
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-09-06 03:32 AM
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1. Hatemongers have nothing better to do than spread lies,
create chaos and harm others in any way they can. This is just another example of such. :-(
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