Everyone keeps repeating the mantra of "too poor to leave", and some, doubtless, were.
But I keep seeing video of submerged and destroyed vehicles--lots of them.
Doubtless, fuel from gas stations is leaking into the water even now. It would have been better to fill every full car that came through than let the fuel leak away.
It would have been better to drive those vehicles out of there than leave them.
better to camp out under a tarp than wait in a sewer.
The people on the overpass where Shep Smith was reporting are just waiting.
Some can't walk far, granted, but to the west vehicles are coming in, and if capable, I'd be walking out...not just sitting and waiting.
Unfortunately, the poor who have been institutionalized by government programs, who are the basis of the industry which has evolved around being poor, have been conditioned to wait for the government to "do something" rather than sieze their own initiative and do it themselves.
If that salad bar will haul DVDs and consumer electronics, it will haul Grandma, at least until the wheels fall off. Little kids can fit two or three to the shopping cart, and it is self-draining.
But it is easier to be angry and blame Richard (Rich Whiteman) than to grab your bootstraps and pull. After all, it is what many have been programmed to do.
You are so right!
"The people on the overpass where Shep Smith was reporting are just waiting.
Some can't walk far, granted, but to the west vehicles are coming in, and if capable, I'd be walking out...not just sitting and waiting."
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How do you think they got to the overpass? Most of them had to walk to get there. I am seeing whole families with children and elderly. It is not practicable to think they can all walk. Further the news is saying contact with the water is dangerous as it is filthy with sewage and decaying bodies.
"Unfortunately, the poor who have been institutionalized by government programs, who are the basis of the industry which has evolved around being poor, have been conditioned to wait for the government to "do something" rather than sieze their own initiative and do it themselves."
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Have you ever heard the term "working poor?" Not all poor people are on handouts. You can be working and still not own transportation.
You are making a lot of negative assumptions about these people stuck in tragic circumstances outside of their control.
"If that salad bar will haul DVDs and consumer electronics, it will haul Grandma, at least until the wheels fall off. Little kids can fit two or three to the shopping cart, and it is self-draining. "
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I have seen footage of plenty of people "hauling Grandma." You are using selective sight. What percent of the people effected do you think are out there looting? I say a minute percentage, and yet it has distorted your whole perception. The fact is most are victims not criminals.
I am wondering about the lack of compassion for them. It's free.
When I read threads like this, I can understand why Blacks even with the lousy leadership vote Democrat. No big tent here.