I know that it is 1700 miles from New Orleans to Minneapolis

[question everything]

but, the Astrodome is full, can our Metrodome be used next to house refugees from New Orleans. Can we house them in some farms in the upper midwest?

[Fridays Child]

1. Snotwad B*sh has a farm much closer to the disaster area.

Think he'll offer it up?

[SheilaT]

2. There's going to be a need

for a resettlement program for many of these people, not just sheltering in stadiums. There's no privacy, no adequate bathing facilities, not much of anything except the sheer space to keep people from the elements.

All of the displaced people should be first in line for jobs helping with the cleaning up and rebuilding of the city. Of course, that's not likely to happen.

Meanwhile, the reality is that hundreds of thousands of people have lost everything and have nothing to go back to. Whether New Orleans is inhabitable next week, next month, next year, next decade, or never, this is beyond a long-term problem, but a permanent one. This is closer to all of the displaced and homeless persons in Europe after WWII who needed to go somewhere also. Granted, the numbers of people involved are no where as large, and a catastrophic hurricane that did all this destruction in just a few hours is quite different from a war that lasted nearly six years, but still, the parallel is there.

[hermetic]

3. MoveOn to the rescue

http://www.hurricanehousing.org/ At least someone in this pathetic excuse for a country is doing something.

[seg4527]

4. probably not

after all, the masses would go crazy if they couldn't see their baseball games because of those dirty poor people.

to my knowledge, there's not much doing in the astrodome. i know at least they don't play major league baseball there anymore.