The corporations are deducing the taxes from the workers, but a lot of the corrupt bastards aren’t reporting the taxes to the government, they are simply reducing workers wages. That’s the most common method of paying sub-minimum wages.

But as for actual Americans who want to return to New Orleans, whatever their field of employment, it doesn’t seem like there’s ever going to be adequate housing or anything that they can afford. They’re tearing down the public housing projects, the landlords are not reinvesting in subsidized-housing units, and the gubmint sure as hell isn’t spending a dime to help poor people come the hell home.

So, apparently, if you want to live in New Orleans, you have to be rich, white, and republicunt, or undocumented, Central American, and willing to work yourself to death with no OSHA, no healthcare and no job security.

Gentrification will kill the business environment. People don’t want to carry their own luggage, wash their own dishes, make their own beds, clean their own rooms, when they go on vacation. There are a lot of unskilled and semi-skilled jobs that need to be filled, but they can’t be filled if there is no place to live.

Things are so bad here, that one of the guys in town who owns a restaurant rents a four-bedroom house for his workers to give them a place to stay until they can find something on their own. With all of the deposits required, people can’t just rent a place when they go to work, they have to work for a few months to get the deposit together.

These people aren’t thinking things through, they aren’t looking at the entire picture. I watched it happen in Destin, and it is a pitiful thing to see.

Apparently, the only people who are “welcome” to move into Louisiana or to own property or find new rentals are the rich yuppies, while more and more public and subsidized housing is being removed from the market, “gentrified” (flipped for richer buyers, removing rentals from the market for poor/working-class tenants), or just flat-out destroyed (most notably in Orleans) so that the municipalities, parishes & state can turn around and sell that property to major developers.

More yuppie-scum condos, fewer “projects,” and nowhere for the poor, the disabled, or the otherwise disenfranchised to go.

I’ll never get the hell out of Redneckistan at this rate.

You learn to do that in Survival School, and I’ve been to a few of them because I was flying world-wide. After what has been dumped in the waterways, I’m not sure I would trust fish anymore.

So don’t just store seed. Identify places where you could use it too. And knowledge of how to hunt and fish and gut and cook the results is very useful too…

Thanks to the Boys Scouts and the Air Force I know how to live off the land, until I can plant a garden. Better than canned goods are seeds in your freezer when things get really bad.

That pretty much covers this entire regime, across the board, doesn’t it. They are employed so that they can control every single thing that’s going on in this country, to make sure that the poor and the powerless continue to suffer and die off and lessen the burden on the tax-avoiding billionaires, while the good resources and the safe food are safely hoarded away for their sake.

In case nobody noticed, we’re tit-deep in the depression now, and the “Lord Of The Flies” shit is already kicking in. Stock up on those few safe canned-goods and filtered water.