Lando 
Posted on 09/02/2005 11:54:28 AM PDT by TIADaily.com
It has taken four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. I can't blame them, because it has also taken me four long days to figure out what is going on there. The reason is that the events there make no sense if you think that we are confronting a natural disaster.
If this is just a natural disaster, the response for public officials is obvious: you bring in food, water, and doctors; you send transportation to evacuate refugees to temporary shelters; you send engineers to stop the flooding and rebuild the city's infrastructure. For journalists, natural disasters also have a familiar pattern: the heroism of ordinary people pulling together to survive; the hard work and dedication of doctors, nurses, and rescue workers; the steps being taken to clean up and rebuild.
Public officials did not expect that the first thing they would have to do is to send thousands of armed troops in armored vehicle, as if they are suppressing an enemy insurgency. And journalists--myself included--did not expect that the story would not be about rain, wind, and flooding, but about rape, murder, and looting.
But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster.
The man-made disaster is not an inadequate or incompetent response by federal relief agencies, and it was not directly caused by Hurricane Katrina. This is where just about every newspaper and television channel has gotten the story wrong.
The man-made disaster we are now witnessing in New Orleans did not happen over the past four days. It happened over the past four decades. Hurricane Katrina merely exposed it to public view.
The man-made disaster is the welfare state...[read on]
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I've been trying to articulate this exact idea for the past three days. Thanks for posting it.
Bingo!
Lando
well said!
bttt
Me too. I did it poorly. Most of those inner city residents can't help themselves because they have never had to before.
Be sure to forward this article to Eleanor Clift at Newsweek.
They are also playing the race card. Check out this link.
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050902071309990001&ncid=NWS00010000000001
I've been stating this for three days. "No one told us what to do!" Wow.
Wrong.
You were told to evacuate and did not. You were told to stockpile 3-5 days of food and you did not.
What were you not told?
How to behave in society. How to fend for yourself. How to earn the means to rise up in society. Who didn't tell you? Your parents, black leaders, your community.
Now, Darwin takes over.
This will be the standard reply I give to all posts when the subject is to blame Bush for all:
The nanny state/welfare mentality - it's always someone else's job. What part of MANDITORY EVACUATION do these fools in the media not get? The people on the coast were warned, told to leave, and chose to stick it out thereby endangered themselves and their families. That would be considered neglect when parents put their children in danger.
The Governor and Mayor's extreme ineptitude is what the bozos in the lame-steam media should be focused on. It was their job to prepare their constituents, NOT the federal government. There was ample time to prepare, and most responsible adults took to the road for safety. Yet all that was offered on the state level was another poor evacuation plan from the dimwit dimocrats. Either using "one way out" stuck in traffic or holing up in the dome, what choices!
Before the storm, they could have used all the school & city busses to evacuate those who couldn't make it on their own to higher ground further inland. But they chose weakness in the face of real danger instead.
After the storm, all resources were put at their disposal, yet they delayed making the request as well as delayed the delivery when aid arrived. Martial Law was declared and yet they still sat on thier hands allowing lawlessness to erupt. Neither can handle their jobs, yet refuse to step aside and allow someone else to handle it.
If President Bush hadn't announced the evacuation order, there would be more loss and suffering, mainly due to the clueless Democrats who failed to do anything - who, by the way, have been in charge of that state long before Bush ran for office.
When you have your hand extended, you shouldn't b!tch about getting aid when you were told to prepare for 3-5 days of food and water. When it comes to your family's safety, waiting on government to solve your problems is no better than waiting on a welfare check instead of getting off your arse and finding work.
But I guess wading around in sewage and griping about it is a much more pleasing alternative if you always pull the "D" lever when it's time to elect leadership. The failure of a democrat-led state is why the media is out in force trying to point fingers at Bush, when they all know the reality of the situation...their own failures cause many more to die than would have if they hadn't been slow to react.
Poor people in Sri Lanka, Indonesia did not mug, rape, shoot rich European and Australian tourists in the Tsunami damaged area.
The poor people did not rape, mug, shoot each other.
That is a behavior, learned by America's underbelly.
A Behavior. Not a race, or a class.
What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of the welfare state. What we consider "normal" behavior in an emergency is behavior that is normal for people who have values and take the responsibility to pursue and protect them. People with values respond to a disaster by fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the difficulties they face. They don't sit around and complain that the government hasn't taken care of them. They don't use the chaos of a disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow men.
But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about saving their houses and property? They don't, because they don't own anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen to their businesses or how they are going to make a living? They never worried about those things before. Do they worry about crime and looting? But living off of stolen wealth is a way of life for them.
The welfare state--and the brutish, uncivilized mentality it sustains and encourages--is the man-made disaster that explains the moral ugliness that has swamped New Orleans. And that is the story that no one is reporting.
A welfare state encouraged by (D)'s and (R)'s alike.
Spot on.
Great article!!! And it is right on target! This sad day is another example of the failure of the WELFARE STATE!
The age of entitlement, The Great Society, The Dependency Class............. hope you're proud, libs
Le't call a spade a spade and a club a club.
Congress is a nice little nationally distructive club...... and NOTHING will change, folks!
But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about saving their houses and property? They don't, because they don't own anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen to their businesses or how they are going to make a living? They never worried about those things before. Do they worry about crime and looting? But living off of stolen wealth is a way of life for them.
Part of the problem is the deterioration of the justice system in the United States. With the catch and release program as practiced by liberal judges our streets are swarming with vermin who should be behind bars. They are hidden during normal times but at times like these the crawl out of their holes and we get a true idea just how many are out there.
All right, all ready...I get the point, you can cut and paste...direct folks to your standard reply instead of posting everywhere....thank you...
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