An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State

TIA Daily ^ | 09-02-05 | Robert Tracinski

[Theophilus]

The bottom line:
The POTUS was not the Grinch
And the NOLA's were certainly not the Whos

[rovenstinez]

GIVE this man a microphone and let him talk on CNN. How many of those going ballistic were needed a fix. Maybe the government should have come in passing our some free cocaine and crack, that might have calmed a few...

[TheHound]

bttt

[scott7278]

"You've Got to Read This" ping!

[gondramB]

It's also very different from the way people in London responded.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Yep. Welfare - Liberalism's modern day slave ship.

"Evacuate? I haven't left my bag of Doritos, TV, and couch in three years. If their Daddy was around, maybe he could give us a ride out of here."

[RippleFire]

bump

[nmh]

Bump!!!

[Pharmboy]

Indeed. But remember the rapes that occurred in the tsunami's aftermath?

[Carry_Okie]

Conveying the obvious can only create an atmosphere of contemplation for the oblivious as to the status quo,

The oblivious won't read it.

[gondramB]

Exactly - this feels more like the atmosphere after the Tsunami than 9/11 or London.

[hypocrite]

" ---- There were many decent, innocent people trapped in New Orleans when the deluge hit -- but they were trapped alongside large numbers of people from two groups: criminals -- and wards of the welfare state, people selected, over decades, for their lack of initiative and self-induced helplessness.


The welfare wards were a mass of sheep--on whom the incompetent administration of New Orleans unleashed a pack of wolves.
--- in a city corrupted by the welfare state, the job of city officials is to ensure the flow of handouts to welfare recipients and patronage to political supporters--not to ensure a lawful, orderly evacuation in case of emergency.

What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of the welfare state.
What we consider "normal" behavior in an emergency is behavior that is normal for people who have values and take the responsibility to pursue and protect them. People with values respond to a disaster by fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the difficulties they face.

But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about saving their houses and property?

They don't, because they don't own anything.

Do they worry about what is going to happen to their businesses or how they are going to make a living? They never worried about those things before. Do they worry about crime and looting? --- living off of stolen wealth is a way of life for them.


The welfare state--and the brutish, uncivilized mentality it sustains and encourages--is the man-made disaster that explains the moral ugliness that has swamped New Orleans. And that is the story that no one is reporting. ---- "


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Main points redacted from the source,
TIA Daily, which need repetition on a national scale.

[nmh]

Rigth on BUMP!

Demoncrats are poverty pimps!

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Great article. Thanks.

[Ima Lurker]

Maybe it's the stress of worrying about my own family members who lost homes in New Orleans, but I have had it with the pity party the nation is having for those idiots who were too stupid to leave the city. I know there were many who really had no way to leave, but the majority stayed because they were too stupid or too lazy to take care of themselves. You can't tell me Fats Domino didn't have the means to leave. The people who died in the streets did so, because so much time and attention and resouces had to be spent on those who refused to leave.

They were told the conditions in the Superdome would be deplorable if the city flooded....they were told it would be days before they could be rescued. They dragged bag after bag of clothing in with them. They couldn't think to take water, bread and peanut butter? Bread and peanut butter is what my family lived on when the hotel where they were staying lost power and ran out of food. Why is it good enough for them, but not the fools who chose not to leave? If I hear one more person say "they" didn't give us enough food and what we did get was slop, I'm gonna scream!

Okay, I'm really getting worked up now. I could go on with my rant, but I think I'll go fix myself a drink instead.

[raybbr]

ping re: our earlier discussion

[Excellence]

Out of the thousands of people in the Superdome, absolutely no one stood up to try and do any sort of organizing. Absolutely no one stood up to lead the most able out to both better ground and to bring in help. Out of the thousands of people there, no one could do anything except sit around and wait for the first of the month to roll around or, in this case, for the government to come along and rescue them. And yet, how can anyone expect any different when this is exactly what they have been brought up from birth to expect.

[singfreedom]

This is ABSOLUTELY correct. I saw it too many times while I was teaching in a large urban school. The reason it isn't being reported------its too "politically incorrect".

When you reward unacceptable behavior, you get unacceptable behavior!!!

[konaice]

This is as succinct a summation of the situation as I have seen anywhere.

Former Military Chick posted days ago that given the squalor shown on TV she would have found a trash bag ans started cleaning up the dome beginning right at her feet.

But you saw none of this, none of the self organization. You saw hundreds and hundreds of people standing on a freeway waiting for buses for 4 days, when half a day's walk would have taken the able bodied to food and shelter on the other side of the river.

You saw news media, displaying all the symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome complaining there were not enough volunteers. Standing in front of a crowd of able bodied (but tired and thirsty) people waiting like a cat at its food dish for someone to fill it up.

There are vast areas of our country where people would have grabbed barrels filled them with water and built fires to boil it. Where people would collect trash and garbage just to keep the smell down. Where 57 burley guys would set trouble makers on their asses and break a few legs to keep them there if necessary. Where food would be collected and rationed.

But none of this happened.

We pay welfare recipients to sit on their ass while illegal aliens are allowed to come in and take the jobs.

Prediction: N.O. will be cleaned up and rebuilt by an army of Mexican illegals working for low (but not insultingly so) laborers while able bodied evacuees will be paid to sit in super domes and shelters all over the south. This article needs to be forwarded to the mass media, not in the hopes that they will carry it, but just so they know we are watching their coverage and making our choices.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"Stating the obvious becomes a notworthy event."

And stating an obvious truth can be a dangerous thing in these PC times.