Its the little things talking to people in the rest of the USA that show me Texas is a different kinda place. Anyone remember the mayor of Houston tactfully reminding Katrina refugees fresh off the bus that Houston was a “working” city? Yea.
Like someone saying they have never been refused service at ERs no matter how silly their problem, try that in Houston sometime. *No insurance, no money etc.
Texas jails and prisons are notoriously harsh.
People popping onto food stamps welfare during short job gaps, laughable my sister working as a waitress with two kids couldn’t qualify for assistance because she had a close to ten year old car, and dumping it would have meant no job at all.
If you want to be punished for being poor and uninsured I advise a trip to Texas;)
Umm, have you been in a coma until recently? You just realized drama queens like drama (that was you right?), and now you just realized Texas is really another country in the bizzaro universe? Have you ever noticed that 9 months after having sex women have babies? Sorry to be all snarky, but you should get a promotion to Major Obvious.
Heh its just I’ll be like I didn’t even want to call the cops to report a disturbance because they just turn on you ask to come inside and get hostile, fishing for something to charge you with. Everyone else thinks I’m nuts, cops don’t do that! Oh yea Texas moment.
Texas, especially Houston, responded with admirable generosity to all the evacuees from Katrina. If there were issues that came up while trying to absorb 150,000 suddenly homeless people, this article explains it far more honestly than your uninformed accusation. Another from NPR.
I"m talking about a comment mayor White made at a press conference when the first evacuees were arriving, there were certainly problems afterward but it was in poor taste and I’m from Houston and lived there at the time.
This is the kinda bizarro world Texas stuff I’m talking about.
Texas very much enforces public intoxication laws with much enthusiasm. I’ve seen people in other states say you can’t get arrested for PI even if you’re fall down drunk.
Totally agree with the OP. The mayor of Houston said something kind of dumb therefore everyone in the entire state is a fucking retard and all police officers want to rape and murder you just for fun.
That’s really what you want parroted back to you isn’t it OP?
Yea sure, I surely wasn’t discussing in a light hearted way that Texas is well different from a lot of the rest of the USA in some ways, some annoying. Clearly I think everyone in Texas(including my family) are murderous cretins.
God everyone here has giant sticks up their butts.
I don’t know anything about Texas of today. But in my younger days I hitch-hiked the entire state many times. I found the people that shared their vehicle with me to be very friendly, generous, and happy. Nothing but great memories in Texas.
Texas is bound by the same EMTALA regulations as anywhere else in the USA. And what kind of idiot actually admits going to the ER with a “silly problem”?
Well, I’m a native Houstonian and I remember the Katrina refugees that hit the ground immediately asking how to sign up for welfare. I also am aware that in the areas where FEMA located Katrina refugees, the crime rates went up significantly. That one thing forced me to relocate my place of business because I couldn’t get customers to come into the area, especially after there was a brutal, senseless murder right across the street.
Your statement is basically bullshit. Under Texas law, hospital ERs cannot refuse to treat emergency cases. I’ll grant that they move you to Ben Taub or John Sealy as quickly as possible, but they will treat you.
Well, from that post, I can see why Texans might think you’re a whacko left wing nut. You certainly follow the left-wing guidelines for blaming an entire group of people for the actions of one deranged individual.
If you had bothered to read the article you quoted, you would have seen that the folks at the food stamp program were actively trying to help the woman:
So the whackjob woman doesn’t give the people enough information to help her, then shoots herself and her kids…and somehow, that is the fault of the state of Texas. Uh, huh, you betcha, bucky.
