This past weekend FEMA, the City of Austin and the Texas Workforce Commission set up a job training/hiring/interview/job fair exclusively for all the Katrina FEMA evacuees in the Austin area to be held at the Austin Community College campus on Webberville Road in East Austin.
Many of the evacuees complained when they heard about it stating that they had no transportation to get from the apartment complexes. So the city of Austin/FEMA/TWC then went out and set up transportation for each and every one of them to ensure they would be able to partake of this offered benefit of job searching.
The transportation arrangements consisted of nine buses and vans to run from four locations in Round Rock and five other locations in Austin. They would operate in continuous shuttles back and forth to the campus to ensure that these hundreds of jobless people looking for work would be transported efficiently and in comfort.
The vehicles were brought to their actual residences. Drivers knocked on the doors of every individual on the list and every effort was made documented.
At the end of the day the nine vans and buses had transported a total of one person.
Not one person per bus - just one person total!
What is more...at the end of the day, none of the Katrina Evacuees applied for any of the jobs. He didn't want any that were being offered.
Not one person took any of the offered employment - NONE - total.
The bill to FEMA (all of us) was $7800. The bill to the state of Texas was similar.
And yet these yahoos STILL get on TV claiming that the United States Government and the American people "OWE THEM." I say we don't owe them anything and if anything, they OWE us - the Tax Payers that are the "WORKING PEOPLE", they owe what they have been mooching off of the Tax Payers for almost a year now.
It is obvious that they don't intend to work as long as they can sponge off of the system. It is time to cut them loose and tell them the free ride is long over!
Just Send Us Cash, Please!
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Many of the evacuees complained when they heard about it stating that they had no transportation to get from the apartment complexes. So the city of Austin/FEMA/TWC then went out and set up transportation for each and every one of them to ensure they would be able to partake of this offered benefit of job searching.
The transportation arrangements consisted of nine buses and vans to run from four locations in Round Rock and five other locations in Austin. They would operate in continuous shuttles back and forth to the campus to ensure that these hundreds of jobless people looking for work would be transported efficiently and in comfort.
The vehicles were brought to their actual residences. Drivers knocked on the doors of every individual on the list and every effort was made documented.
At the end of the day the nine vans and buses had transported a total of one person.
Not one person per bus - just one person total!
What is more...at the end of the day, none of the Katrina Evacuees applied for any of the jobs. He didn't want any that were being offered.
Not one person took any of the offered employment - NONE - total.
The bill to FEMA (all of us) was $7800. The bill to the state of Texas was similar.
And yet these yahoos STILL get on TV claiming that the United States Government and the American people "OWE THEM." I say we don't owe them anything and if anything, they OWE us - the Tax Payers that are the "WORKING PEOPLE", they owe what they have been mooching off of the Tax Payers for almost a year now.
It is obvious that they don't intend to work as long as they can sponge off of the system. It is time to cut them loose and tell them the free ride is long over!
Just Send Us Cash, Please!
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