"The reason you can't get a job is because you can't talk right."

[Vin DSL]

Full story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11677333/site/newsweek/

Crime is up. Schools are overcrowded. Hospitals are jammed. Houston welcomed a flood of hurricane evacuees with open arms. But now the city is suffering from a case of 'compassion fatigue.'

"If they want to return home, it's their right." And if they want to stay, she adds, they "need to stand up, get on their feet and get jobs." - Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs

In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, Houston earned a loving moniker among many of the evacuees who sought refuge there: the Big Heart. This, after all, was the city that housed, fed and mended more than 150,000 survivors in a herculean effort that won national acclaim.

Houston officials mounted what is believed to be the biggest shelter operation in the country's history, including MASH-like megaclinics that took on problems ranging from emergency care to eyeglass prescriptions. Then, just as quickly, officials disbanded those facilities to usher evacuees into more-permanent housing, offering them generous vouchers that covered rent and utilities for a year.

"No other city really provided the resources and assistance Houston has," says Angelo Edwards, vice chair of the ACORN Katrina Survivors Association. "If not for Mayor [Bill] White and his administration, a lot of us would've been lost."

But six months after the evacuees arrived, the city's heart seems to be hardening...

[Jaded]

Sounds like something Bush would say about someone with a Nawlins accent.

"Da reason you cain't geta jobis ya cain't tawk riot" lmao!