N. Texas absorbing part of wiped-out economy-Military recruiters descending

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/090905dnbuskateco.7623285.html

Texas absorbing part of wiped-out economy

As thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees settle into North Texas, underwear, bedding and other necessities fly off Dallas store shelves into relief centers.

The Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce attempts to match displaced New Orleans companies with office space. Housing officials and charity groups seek homes for evacuees. snip

The Texas Workforce Commission said it has received calls from companies as far away as Wyoming and California willing to hire evacuees. Even military recruiters have been talking with them.

[aquart]

1. Military recruiters licking their lips.

[disconnected]

2. go figure

wonder how many will sign up for military service? I'm thinking zip on that one.

[NNN0LHI]

4. I don't think I would be in the mental state to be...

...discussing what amounts to a binding 8 year contract so soon after the trauma.

Don

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. That's just the point. They don't want discussion.

They want desperation.

[xray s]

3. From devastated NOLA to Iraq

at least the scenery will be familiar.

[Drum]

5. Deplorable!

The military recruiters getting involved only reinforces the argument that they use the poor and minorities as cannon fodder, doesn't it? It's practically an advertisement against themselves.

That they would swoop in on the victims of loss and dislocation makes them really sound like scum. Honorable people sent to be dishonorable.

[krkaufman]

10. Yep, I've been expecting this.

Sad.

[Rose Siding]

6. People with nothing left to lose, with families that need a paycheck

You could see this coming. :(

[NNN0LHI]

8. Yea I have been checking Google a few days now for the first sniff of it

I knew it was coming.

Don

[DELUSIONAL]

9. That's why I call this an economic draft

Someone with not job and zero hope to get into college (lack of funding) sees the military as a way of getting job training and an education.

Problem is he or she might get themselves killed in Iraq.