"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.
And yes, I am painfully familliar with the concept of "working poor", I have been there. I kept working.
If the Police can drive cars down the road, I would bet they can walk down it, even with their weight unsupported by the festering cesspool below them.
But, then, I know a guy who amputated his own arm when he got wrapped up in a piece of farm machinery (because just waiting for help would have definitely been fatal), so maybe I put self-help in just a little different perspective.
If those were my children going without water and food, you can bet your ass I'd be off mine.
Where did I say anything about race? Don't you DARE start that crap with me. I believe the word I used was "people".
I made no reference to color, so do not denigrate me with your perception of racism.
I have known all sorts of people, good and bad, hard-working and lazy, honest and shiftless, decent and a$$holes. Guess what? They come in all sizes, shapes, and colors.
My comment was about the 'institutionalized' poor, and that is hardly limited to black people, or the people on that overpass--up here, they are mostly white.