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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: StockDung who wrote (75344)	4/11/2006 7:59:29 PM
From: pete2	of 81568

No Surprise to Texas folks. 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, private homes, hotels, motels, and inns where they are living - free of charge. So the city of Austin / FEMA / TWC set up transportation for each of them so they would be able to find jobs. 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 comfort, the vehicles were brought to their residences; drivers knocked on the doors; and every effort was made to ensure they knew the transportation was available for them. 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. The bill to FEMA was $7800. MORAL: Why work if someone else is paying your bills.

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