40,000 trailers on the way to Baton Rouge

[Winston702]

40,000 camping trailers 26' and longer are leaving tomorrow from MI,IN,and OH bound for Baton Rouge.

[tavalon]

1. Why?

And why is this in editorial?

Are they for the evacuees?

[babylonsister]

2. Welcome to DU, Winston702.

You might want to put this in General Discussion and provide a link to your info. This is good news!

[shraby]

3. Need link

[Winston702]

4. Whoops - wrong location

Please move to GD forum

No link - neighbor has one in driveway w/ FEMA stickers in the windows. FEMA bought out a several dealerships around area.

[Mikimouse]

5. Similar to the influx of trailers to Cuero, texas in 1998...

the only problem is that the more affluent pparts of Cuero did not want trailer parks set up in their neighborhoods (will not comment on that or them, don't wish to have the post deleted). THey were finally allowed to place the trailers in parts of the city that were off the 'beaten path' so to speak. They are still there now. I expect that some of the communities where the NO homeless are sheltered will raise objections to the placement of trailer parks, just as they did in Cuero.

[babylonsister]

6. This is probably going to be the result in 6-12 months;

it won't be pretty depending on tolerance in all states.

[Mikimouse]

7. You are correct, and the approach from the communities will be the same

Cuero businesses wanted to relocate there because of the level of poverty and the opportunity to make great profits while paying minimum wage or less to the workers. Prior to the floods, the mean value of a home in Cuero was $19,000. There were as many as 10-12 people living in one room 'houses', while all the members of the household were working full time. Disgraceful and shameful.

[babylonsister]

8. Ah, Miki, what can I say? The whole damn situation

is so sad; Katrina couldn't have been prevented, but it sure could have been handled, before and after, a lot better than it was. Now there's so much suffering as a result.

[Mikimouse]

9. We, as in the American public...

have allowed this to happen. Not with forethought or malice necessarily, but by allowing the continuation of deliberately false or distorted 'information' to circulate through the various media. The poor and minorities have been demonized, I fear, beyond the point of redemption, and the result is what we are seeing now. The various posts from other websites that have been posted here simply reflect the successful portrayal of the poor and minorities as a threat to American culture and values, all the while ignoring the fact that the poor and minoritiesa re just as much Americans as those flinging shit their way. I believe that the most important questions to be asked right now, and for the sake of our future as a nation, are the following: Why have we allowed the hatemongers and masters of divisiveness such thorough access to the media? Why, after they have so thoroughly demonstrated their willingness to publish or broadcast distortions and lies, have we not legislated some boundaries that CANNOT be violated? If we do not wish to hear hateful and counterproductive talking points, it is up to us to find constitutionally valid means of curbing the access to the hatemongers.

[babylonsister]

10. You didn't provide a link but posted:

Why have we allowed the hatemongers and masters of divisiveness such thorough access to the media? Why, after they have so thoroughly demonstrated their willingness to publish or broadcast distortions and lies, have we not legislated some boundaries that CANNOT be violated?
Why am I responding? I don't know, but you are wrong. And I am an optimist that believes love will prevail.