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]
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what BULL-----
....and now the bitching and moaning that the gubmint didn't do enough for them, fast enough!
"California Officials are you listening? This may be California after a magnitude 9 earthquake."
or anywhere else after a terror attack.
unPC truth bump
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!
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.
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.
This one NAILS IT!
Ping. Read the article.
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.
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.
Bookmarked. Exactly what I've been thinking, put into elegant language.
Throw in gangsta culture ,lack of reverence for life and scraping every remnant of God from public life.
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.
My head hurts, logic overload.
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?
I was looking for Homeland Security disbursements for LA.
From 2001-2005 amount committed was 438,870,000.
Um, one of those terms is not like the others.
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