[lit-ideas] Re: True Desperation
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:55:35 -0700
Goodness, they are spreading far and wide. (Or I should look at a
> map... )
ck: Judy, your sense of geography isn't impaired. It's far and wide, all
right--about 3,000 miles. Fresno's mayor and town council offered the city
as a relo site, just as it did for 2,000 new Hmong refugees earlier this
year, and long before. Poverty rate here is about 20%, btw. This town has a
good heart--compassionate conservatism indeed--but of course social welfare
and education programs have been cut dramatically. Indeed, we no longer have
a homeless shelter in Fresno! What are they thinking... OK, they're not
thinking. I expect that some of these ex-NO folks will become my voc
rehab/social work clients.
later the same day,
Carol
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From: "Judy Evans" <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:46 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: True Desperation
> Tuesday, September 6, 2005, 8:32:14 PM, Carol Kirschenbaum wrote:
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> CK> Four hundred N.O. evacuees are scheduled to arrive in Fresno, CA,
> today.
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> Goodness, they are spreading far and wide. (Or I should look at a
> map... )
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> CK> We
> CK> must be underestimating the degree of these folks' desperation.
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> :)
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> CK> On quite another note, I've been tearful and raging this weekend.
> True,
> CK> Saturday was my birthday, but this is more about N.O. and the Bush.
> CK> Desperation without a net. Has anyone else here been taking all this
> Katrina
> CK> aftermath viscerally and personally?
>
> I sense a lot of people in the US have, Carol.
>
> Judy
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