Free Ride

**1marineslady** · May 7th, 2006, 02:36

This past weekend 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.

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 com fort. The vehicles were brought to their residences;
drivers knocked on the doors; and every effort was made.

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.
At the end of the day, none of the Katrina Evacuees applied for any of the
jobs. Not one person took employment - NONE total.
The bill to FEMA was $7800.
And yet they still get on TV claiming that the United States Government
"OWES THEM", I say we don't owe them anything and if anything, they OWE us - the
Tax Payers that are "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 over !

Tell me what you all think I agree with this statement......

**KEEP US ALIVE** · May 7th, 2006 02:36

**V8403** · May 7th, 2006, 13:29

Melissa, You are so right anyone that did not take advantage of what was offered to them at that does not deserve any more help of any kind. period. it is time to stop sponging of the tax payers

**1marineslady** · May 7th, 2006, 16:09

That is very true, I know a few people who lost there houses in Louisiana and are working on farms up in the North for family just to have a roof over there head and food on the table. Nothing more and nothing less.