[Tolik]

Nailed It!

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[EagleUSA]

Plus, we can always fantasize that the monies expended toward rebuilding the damaged areas might lead to more scrutiny and the eventual scaling back of federal pork and other largesse across the board -- like the prescription drug plan.
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Well stated Mr. Limbaugh.

[mlc9852]

Common sense - how refreshing.

[WasDougsLamb]

I happen to believe that promoting permanent victimhood and dependency is what is racist

Agree

[ncountylee]

After close to $7 trillion has been spent on the war on poverty, how can anyone seriously argue that liberal solutions have any remote prospect of eradicating poverty or its often-disproportionate effects on blacks?

Job retraining programs needed for the race baiting poverty pimps?

[Calpernia]

Bush has consistantly listed Human Trafficking as part of the War On Terror.

New Orleans is a BIG offender to human trafficking. Human Trafficking consists of immigrants as well as American Nationals.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1472612/posts

Several posts in that thread outlining the problems with New Orleans and the trafficking industry.

These people made up a large percentage of the victims of poverty.

[David Isaac]

WOW!! Six responses already and no one has jumped in to say that it is just part of Bush's super-secret strategy to co-opt some of the Democratic demographic.

[votelife]

Bush Offering a Hand Up, Not Handouts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1487340/posts

go to post #9 to see an INCREDIBLE video/music of Katrina!

[ArGee]

But I don't see any silver lining in the president's seeming adoption of the Jesse Jackson school of thought concerning Katrina's racist component. The president said: "As all of us saw on television, there is also some deep, persistent poverty in this region as well. And that poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America. We have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action."

I didn't see the President's speech, and I have been very disappointed in the past with his willingness to spend money like a drunken liberal.

But I don't see anything in this quote that I disagree with. When my grandfather was earning money to help my father get an education, a southern black child's grandfather was earning money for a sharecropper. That disparity has lead to a difference in income that many blacks are overcoming, but others have not. Such deep-seated poverty hurts us all and should be confronted.

It's not whether it should be confronted, but how, that is the sticking point. I will be interested in seeing the President's how. If it is to do more things like force vouchers down the NEA-supported Liberal throats of our Left Wing, then that will be a good way to confront this poverty. With everything torn down, the President is in an outstanding position to use the liberals' own rhetoric to rebuild conservative solutions where the liberal ones have failed.

I can see ole Teddy now, chearing those words then wondering what hit him. I hope and pray it will happen that way.

Shalom.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Some conservatives are concerned with President Bush's New Orleans speech because of the unlimited federal spending it seemed to promise, but I was far more concerned with his arguable vindication of the wrongheaded notion that racial discrimination is responsible for the disproportionate impact of the flooding on blacks.

I believe it. Democrats are racist.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Things I have learned from watching the news on TV during the last eight days:

The hurricane only hit black family's property

New Orleans was devastated and no other city was affected by the hurricane

Mississippi is reported to have a tree blown down

New Orleans has no white people

The hurricane blew a limb off a tree in the yard of an Alabama resident

When you are hungry after a hurricane steal a big screen TV

The hurricane did 23 billion dollars in improvements to New Orleans: now that city is welfare free, looters free and gang free. All of them are in your city now.

White people don't make good news stories

Don't give thanks to the thousands that came to help rescue you, instead bitch because the government hasn't given you a debit card yet

Only black family members got separated in the hurricane rescue efforts

Ignore warnings to evacuate and the government will come get you and give you money for being stupid

Damn, I feel so sorry for all those poor folks.

The only way it could have been worse was to be in Alabama, Mississippi or Florida and be completely ignored.