Posted on 09/14/2005 10:41:28 PM PDT by duckln
Failure of an idea ... and a people Posted: September 14, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 Creators Syndicate Inc.
In his 1935 State of the Union Address, FDR spoke to a nation mired in the Depression, but still marinated in conservative values:
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Behind FDR's statement was the conviction that, while the government must step in in an emergency, in normal times, men provide the food, clothing and shelter for their families.
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The real disaster of Katrina was that society broke down. An entire community could not cope.
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Stranded for days in a pool of fetid water, almost everyone waited for the government to come save them. They screamed into the cameras for help, and the reporters screamed into the cameras for help, and the "civil rights leaders" screamed into the cameras that Bush was responsible and Bush was a racist.
FDR was right. A "spiritual disintegration" has overtaken us. Government-as-first provider, the big idea of the Great Society, has proven to be "a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit."
Either we get off this narcotic, or it kills us.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Does he sound like Rush or vice versa.
I agree, Pat got this exactly right. Sounds like the old Pat.
As evidence: Mayor Nagin's claim that evacuation failed b/c he had no bus drivers.
If New Orleans had been FReeper-ville, citizens would have hot-wired all the buses themselves and gotten people out to safety.
Instead, it looks like no one was left in NO with the motivation to use their own initiative [except for that one black kid, bless his soul].
Probably were a lot just like him, but the MSM looked for the whiners, and are trying to use it in their anti W campaign.
The biggest whiners were the Democrats and their cheerleaders. They never reported truthfully on the hurricane, their eyes, as Rush says, never left Bush.
IMO their will be a black backlash with more voters crossing over in 08.
Patrick Buchanan is absolutely right.
Damn! Pat is actually lucid for a change. Will miracles never cease?
Nicely done.
And Mayor Nagin screamed for the feds to "get off their asses", and Governor Blanco needed just 24 more hours to decide what to do.
All the while, the tough Acadiens made do, did what was necessary, and guarded their homes until the water went down. No big deal. All the while the Mississippians and Alabamians who lost everything salvaged what they could, helped one another and started the process of recovery.
I think we should put all the Democrats and whiners and fed-bashers in the Superdome, lock the exits and let them work things out among themselves.
Dream on. 85% of black voters are pathologically paranoid of Republicans. The former NO residents will blame white people for their plight.
Alabama and Mississippi should sue Nagin and Blanco for diverting critical resources to NO due to gross negligence.
Blanco cried, People died.
Winner!
Unlike Drudge, I think Buchannan know when to use the word. :-)
Educational link. Thanks.
Mrs. Boudreaux and Mrs. LaPiere sitting on top of their house looking at the flood waters. They see a "gimme cap" float down toward the street. It turns around and floats back toward the house, then turns around and heads for the street.
Mrs LaPiere looks at Mrs Boudreaux and says, "That cap shore is acting odd."
Mrs. Boudreaux says, No it isn't, that's Emile, I told him, he was gonna cut the grass, come Hell or high water."
To read later
Reminds me of what German troops said after WW II.
They said they had to wait for orders, and were astonished at how Americans could improvise on a moments notice- especially the lowly Privates and Sargents.
America has lost some of that in the last few decades.
We need to cure this sclerosis. IMO
Mind if I repeat it?
Mrs. Boudreaux and Mrs. LaPiere sitting on top of their house looking at the flood waters. They see a "gimme cap" float down toward the street. It turns around and floats back toward the house, then turns around and heads for the street. Mrs LaPiere looks at Mrs Boudreaux and says, "That cap shore is acting odd." Mrs. Boudreaux says, No it isn't, that's Emile, I told him, he was gonna cut the grass, come Hell or high water."
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