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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

It has taken four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. I can't blame them, because it has also taken me four long days to figure out what is going on there. The reason is that the events there make no sense if you think that we are confronting a natural disaster.

If this is just a natural disaster, the response for public officials is obvious: you bring in food, water, and doctors; you send transportation to evacuate refugees to temporary shelters; you send engineers to stop the flooding and rebuild the city's infrastructure. For journalists, natural disasters also have a familiar pattern: the heroism of ordinary people pulling together to survive; the hard work and dedication of doctors, nurses, and rescue workers; the steps being taken to clean up and rebuild.

Public officials did not expect that the first thing they would have to do is to send thousands of armed troops in armored vehicle, as if they are suppressing an enemy insurgency. And journalists--myself included--did not expect that the story would not be about rain, wind, and flooding, but about rape, murder, and looting.

But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster.

The man-made disaster is not an inadequate or incompetent response by federal relief agencies, and it was not directly caused by Hurricane Katrina. This is where just about every newspaper and television channel has gotten the story wrong.

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.

The man-made disaster is the welfare state...[read on]

(Excerpt) Read more at tiadaily.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: hurricane; katrina; relief; urbanbarbarians; welfare; welfarestate; zaq
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To: DMZFrank

what BULL-----


81 posted on 09/02/2005 12:35:19 PM PDT by rang1995 (They will love us when we win)
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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?)
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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)
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To: TIADaily.com

unPC truth bump


84 posted on 09/02/2005 12:41:43 PM PDT by John Lenin (Liberalism: Where shame is a virtue)
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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)
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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.
86 posted on 09/02/2005 12:52:06 PM PDT by Chili Girl
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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.


87 posted on 09/02/2005 12:52:43 PM PDT by Ima Lurker
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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
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To: TIADaily.com
Might as well pull all of the other Katrina threads.

This one NAILS IT!


89 posted on 09/02/2005 12:59:40 PM PDT by They'reGone2000 (Re-elect Rossi 2008!)
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To: ImaGraftedBranch

Ping. Read the article.


90 posted on 09/02/2005 1:02:24 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (We DARE Defend Our Rights (Alabama State Motto))
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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.

91 posted on 09/02/2005 1:07:12 PM PDT by Monti Cello
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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))
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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)
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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)
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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))
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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)
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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.)
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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))
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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))
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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.

100 posted on 09/02/2005 1:22:41 PM PDT by ThinkDifferent (That's great. What?)
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