The difference between the two situations is that with Katrina, Bush was president. It was 100% his fault.
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Agreed!
The church gave a handful of Katrina families several hundred prime acres of land here for a new church along with several nice brick homes and office buildings. When I say prime, I mean it. Cream of the crop. You can’t get any more P-R-I-M-E acreage. I’ve never seen any cars there on Sunday and haven’t heard of anyone who has attended church there but it’s all tax exempt. I drove by there yesterday and saw they had turned what used to be private roads owned and maintained for decades by the previous church are now county maintained roads....
After years and years of welfare, food stamps, free healthcare, black history month, there is an entitlement mentality that they are “owed” for having their great, great, great grandmother had to “endure” slavery. The poorest in this nation are better off in every way than those living in their homeland of Africa. But that doesn’t keep them from always bringing up the slavery issue. We all know about Selma, but then there’s Oprah. So, GET OVER IT and get a life. America doesn’t OWE you anything but the pursuit of happiness.
High-five.
The Japanese people are hard-working people who take care of their families, their neighbors and strangers. Listening to some Japanese people, they aren’t looking for cameras to capture *their* stories. I heard one lady say that she and her sick mother would somehow survive on little food & relief supplies, and that the focus of our attention should be on those people who are still stranded in their mangled homes.
Wish I could be there to help them.
Step harder. Everyone saw the difference in behavior between the residents of New Orleans and the the people of San Diego county after the fires. The San Diegans didn’t moan and cry and loot. They stepped out and got busy.
The other related huge difference is that the Japanese are a homogenous society. Everyone looks like everyone else, many are related through long lines. Personal honor is a big deal over there. Not being a burden on others is a big deal, appearing weak, etc.
We don’t have a homogenous society, we have a balkanized society with government approving of different and lower expectations from certain minority groups. People here think they have a right to take stuff from other people because they didn’t plan for themselves. Too many here believe they have a right to live off other peoples’ money, one way or another. WI protestors being a prime example of one of those types of people.
Most places in the country are pretty much doomed. The adults are corrupt, and you can’t teach the young to respect the adults because they are corrupt.