> > quite, i did not intend to say that feeling emotion was bad, the comment you quoted meant that i feel that people rely to much on television and characters on television for how they should react to life situations. and the response they get from tv (and most other media to be sure) is to behave emotionally unstable and to look to others for solutions to all problem. hence, the katrina debauchery that took place in houston. no one even attempted to fix thier own plight, but merely looked to the government for money, housing, etc.. even when offered irrationally high-paying jobs to rebuild New Orleans they refused, opting for the easier way out: to sit on thier asses and wait for a government check in houston.
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> Really? Not one person took a high paying job? Every single person decided to not go to New Orleans and work and instead opted to get less money from the government?
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> I may be generalizing here, but if what you say is true, Houston really does make people lazy. No wonder it is once again ranked as the fattest city in the U.S.**
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> I may be only half serious here in my comments, but I would like to know who you are talking about and what exactly you are referring to beyond Katrina. Are these people from Houston? Displaced people from the Gulf Coast? Did they turn down jobs in New Orleans because they were getting jobs in Houston? Did getting a job in New Orleans mean they wouldn't get any money from the government?
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> What is the rest of the story?
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> Ferrick

to answer your first question: many commercial contractors scoured the astrodome as well as the superdome with job propositions. Obviously the people who went and got jobs on their own were not included in my comment. And getting these jobs would automatically exclude from the need-based welfare checks. 100percent were declined. This all seemed pretty obvious to me, which is why i didn't mention any of it. the second question, these were all the people displaced to the two locations previously mentioned. from wherever. i was not exclusively talking about new orleans residents or houston residents. you also missed the entire point of my original. posting here is like talking to children. read the original again and if you are still confused as to what was really trying to be conveyed, jump off of a tall building.