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An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State
TIADaily.com ^
| September 2, 2005
| Robert Tracinski
Posted on 09/02/2005 11:54:28 AM PDT by TIADaily.com
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To: DMZFrank
81
posted on
09/02/2005 12:35:19 PM PDT
by
rang1995
(They will love us when we win)
To: TIADaily.com
....and now the bitching and moaning that the gubmint didn't do enough for them, fast enough!
82
posted on
09/02/2005 12:35:51 PM PDT
by
Ed_in_NJ
(Who killed Suzanne Coleman?)
To: Khankrumthebulgar
"California Officials are you listening? This may be California after a magnitude 9 earthquake."
or anywhere else after a terror attack.
83
posted on
09/02/2005 12:36:30 PM PDT
by
dervish
(tagline for rent, inquire within)
To: TIADaily.com
84
posted on
09/02/2005 12:41:43 PM PDT
by
John Lenin
(Liberalism: Where shame is a virtue)
To: RasterMaster
They don't have or want a stake in ANYTHING in America. Having a stake in your city or neighborhood or country means taking responsibility. This is why liberals succeed so well with that element. Pander to their inability/unwillingness to accept responsibility and assure their dependence on the party (any party) which will provide them a subsistence without any strings. All other working and taxpaying Americans pay for this on both ends of the bargain. We pay on a daily, year in and year out basis and we pay again in situations like this one. I'm tired of it!
85
posted on
09/02/2005 12:49:20 PM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
To: TIADaily.com
Exactly what I've been saying all week. Couldn't leave because the check was coming in two days - out of money.
The job of rebuilding should be given to those that want to move back. This welfare system is just silly. The government can't (and shouldn't be relied upon to) be everything for everyone. We must plan for disaster, and be ready for it. More will come.
To: LS
This is exactly what I was saying to someone this morning. We can not blame those people in New Orleans, and other cities for not knowing how to take care of themselves. That is not something they, their parents or grandparents have ever had to do. It's a totally foreign concept to many of them. Unfortunately, being enslaved by welfare is only going to get worse now.
To: TIADaily.com
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.Rather over the past nine decades. The NAACP and ACLU were both established by Fabian Socialist groups to undermine the infra-structure of American societies. The Police--the forces of Law and Order--have long been one of the primary targets of this movement. But the ultimate targets have always been the foundations of the social order.
See Police/Community Relations--The Origins Of A Problem.
88
posted on
09/02/2005 12:55:09 PM PDT
by
Ohioan
To: TIADaily.com
Might as well pull all of the other Katrina threads.
This one NAILS IT!
To: ImaGraftedBranch
90
posted on
09/02/2005 1:02:24 PM PDT
by
Ultra Sonic 007
(We DARE Defend Our Rights (Alabama State Motto))
To: TIADaily.com
Yes, there are real consequences to large numbers of people who are primarily objects, not subjects -- helpless pawns who wait to be moved, and whose largest effect is the tug on the heartstrings of the rest due simply to their existence as living creatures.
It's the societal equivalent of someone morbidly obese who is unable to move, only able to consume, kept alive by enablers too weak to look ahead and break a psychotic cycle, only strong enough to carry in another bag of twinkies.
To: TIADaily.com
Watching the noncriminal souls wandering around waiting for someone to tell them what to do was pitiful.
In another area of town, a group of survivors had banded together, cobbled together a shelter, figured out how to cook and were surviving.
The difference: total dependence on government vs dependence on self.
92
posted on
09/02/2005 1:11:35 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Conservatives are from Earth. Liberals are from Uranus.(c))
To: TIADaily.com
It's ironic that those who have helped create...and rely on such a large central government for everything, are now suffering because of its bureaucracy.
93
posted on
09/02/2005 1:11:52 PM PDT
by
cwb
(Liberalism is the opiate of the *asses)
To: TIADaily.com
Bookmarked. Exactly what I've been thinking, put into elegant language.
94
posted on
09/02/2005 1:12:40 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist"--Sheikh Omar Brooks, quoted in the London Times 8/7/05)
To: beyond the sea
Throw in gangsta culture ,lack of reverence for life and scraping every remnant of God from public life.
95
posted on
09/02/2005 1:13:43 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Conservatives are from Earth. Liberals are from Uranus.(c))
To: Ima Lurker
Right, which is why I grudgingly agree we must support them . . . but never again. Raze all but the port facilities, and stop subsidizing people to live in temperate climes next to a beach.
96
posted on
09/02/2005 1:14:25 PM PDT
by
LS
(CNN is the Amtrak of news)
To: TIADaily.com
My head hurts, logic overload.
97
posted on
09/02/2005 1:15:14 PM PDT
by
DTogo
(U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
To: Khankrumthebulgar
Fema did position the supplies, there was no way to fly them in.
Do you use all your choppers to fly in supplies or do you use your choppers to rescue people sitting on roof's?
98
posted on
09/02/2005 1:16:19 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Conservatives are from Earth. Liberals are from Uranus.(c))
To: Fog Nozzle
I was looking for Homeland Security disbursements for LA.
From 2001-2005 amount committed was 438,870,000.
99
posted on
09/02/2005 1:20:18 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Conservatives are from Earth. Liberals are from Uranus.(c))
To: Years_o_Lurkin
The liberal/welfare-state/gangstah-rap/libertarian utopia come to fruition. Um, one of those terms is not like the others.
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