Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Help Who?
I sent this to the local newspaper today:
I realize that talking bad about helping Katrina's victims may border on heresy right now, but have people stopped to think about how much help some of the help actually is? Michigan has said it's prepared to take in 10,000 evacuees. What are these people going to do when they get here? Here's a couple of facts that can't be ignored. Detroit is now the nation's poorest big city, with about one in three residents living below the federal poverty level and Michigan's July unemployment rate of 7 percent (Saginaw was 8.6%) was highest among the 50 states. I hardly see how moving people who have nothing to a state where many of the have nothings now live is going help.
2fers: Saginaw News and Detroit Free Press
