I couldn’t resist commenting on this news. From Workers World (tag line: Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the world unite!), comes the headline: Immigrants testify on exploitation in New Orleans. Excuse me, I have to snicker.
Ok. I’m back.
I agree that the government should have done more than it did. I agree that it is a tragedy that after two years New Orleans is in the state that it is in.
But, oppressed? Come on. Exploited? Please. Let’s get the ACLU and the NAACP and the Rev Sharpton to cry me a river.
Later, after he got out of the situation, Dennis stood on the corner at a Home Depot looking for work. Managers from the store called the police on the workers and armed police arrived in five patrol cars. The workers were not only arrested, Dennis described, but police stole $200 from him. In jail, he said, the Latin@ workers were terrified.
This article boggles the mind. Some dipstick head’s to New Orleans from a foreign country expecting to gouge the locals as day laborers. And we should feel sorry for him because he did not get what he was promised?
The recruiter promised the workers a good home, with a swimming pool, a television and telephone service. “But when I arrived,” Daniel said, “the reality was totally different.”
Duh! Ya think? A large portion of the local population was living in freaking fema trailers and you expect to have a good home and a swimming pool? Who’s exploiting whom?
The ruling class has successfully managed to drive down living conditions for the most oppressed workers in a way that can make heads spin. In addition, in every single facet of life, the community of New Orleans and all the Gulf Coast is being brutally and inhumanely hit. The horror the world saw in August of 2005 continues today in the wake of “Hurricane U.S. government.”
OH MY GOD. My mom and the rest of my family must be part of the oppressed. The man is keeping them down.
Ack. I need to stay away from rags like this.
commies, socialists, stupid
