Can anyone see the differences here??? The majority of the people here are responsible, hard working, CIVIL people who take care of their families and themselves. As opposed to the people packed the Superdome in LA. See how the situation turned out? It wasn't the devastation, it wasn't the GUMMIT, it was the people.
I can already hear the people of LA crying that the rich white people in SoCal got buffets while they got nothing.
That mentality of "getting something" is the root of the problem IMHO.
“That mentality of “getting something” is the root of the problem IMHO.”
From the article;
“... Fowler said, sipping a root beer. “I never thought I’d be in a place like this, getting handouts.”
Mr. Fowler considers “help” a “handout”, not a “right”. Therein lies the difference.
WHERE WAS LOOTIE? Ping.
Wise man.
/moonbat
I guess that is the SoCal version of roughing it!
What a sterling example of making the best of a bad situation.
I’d expect nothing less from Southern California, at least the SoCal of decades past. Growing up there and living there as an adult, I was always impressed with the ability of folks there to turn what might otherwise be a big mess into, well, a party. I was the beneficiary of that several times: when a freeway disaster stopped traffic for hours
and a bag of Trader Joe’s groceries became a spontaneous picnic; when a wheel fell off our car on Deadman’s Bend north of Laguna and the quiche we were carrying to a friend’s house became the centerpiece of a teenage
beachside mobile-home celebration while we called for a tow...
Spontaneous parties were a happy consequence of SoCal’s local culture, and, after all the horrors of Katrina, I’m delighted to read that it still exists.
>That mentality of “getting something” is the root of the problem IMHO.<
I am amazed that you didn’t realize sooner what the problem was at Katrina, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FINGERS. Yes, F.E.M.A.!
Without F.E.M.A.’s assistance, even the sun can rise and fall smoothly.