Posted on 09/25/2005 8:46:46 AM PDT by rellimpank
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: 'The institutionally indolent'
Last week, we started dealing with the mail on my Sept. 11 column about the fading American virtue of self-sufficiency, as hastened by the growth of the welfare state, on display courtesy of the mendicant class of New Orleans in the days immediately following Hurricane Katrina, complaining that their government handouts had not arrived with sufficient alacrity.
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Perhaps proving his point, it was 20 years before I realized he wasn't just insulting his students and peers. The majority of people in any institution receive their "ideas," preferences, and "convictions" on the dole, the crumbs off the tables of distant opinion shapers or the odd original thinker.
I can remember the day I decided to get off the intellectual dole and take responsibility for my own thoughts and decision. It coincided with my seeing afirst and embracing of the free market and was like a breath of fresh air. It coincided too with my acknowledging God. I can say that it is The Good Fight.
"...as did Buddy Buchanan of Jackson, Miss., who writes:
"Sir, yours is the only piece I've read in all of this aftermath of Katrina which cuts to the chase and exposes government -- at any level -- for what is really is ... a redistributor of cash. Therein lie all the problems of a class of people whom we've raised as, well ... political pets.
"They occupy our largest populated cities, skewing elections of every kind. Their empowerment in being so strategically placed is very close to making the institution of the Electoral College a very dangerous thing. They expect and receive from the government(s) much more than the American people are able to give them. Their entitlements, designed to purchase their votes, are only perpetuating and retaining a horribly struggling and politically corrupt country ... designed in the beginning to make people free. God help us all!"
I think most large American cities will "go New Orleans" if the power and water are ever cut for even one week.
---contemplate the big LA Basin or San Francisco Bay Area earthquake-no warning and no evacuation- and what it will be like after that---
That's a nightmare scenario, because evacuation is not even an option. Every neighborhood will have to defend itself like "Fort Apache," and the long dark nights will be nightmares.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
As always.
What looks superficially to be benefits to a disadvantaged class is actually the chief engine of death employed by the modern progressive state.
The situation of the American black underclass is not unique - the genocidal welfare distributed to Canadian natives is the starkest example I know of in the Western world of the destruction of whole generations of people by the seeming beneficence of a caring government.
All of these dependency systems are simply pilot projects for the wonderful and benign socialist utopia that lies ahead for us all.
Unless someone upsets the applecart, that is. ;^)
I've often wondered if the Republican Party establishment backed Bob Dole in 1996, thereby conceding the election to Clinton, only to keep Pat Buchanan - winner of the New Hampshire primary - from becoming President? Buchanan would certainly have made Clinton's character a campaign issue and, as President, profoundly altered the character of the Republican Party.
"Political pets" OUCH!
About the same. Only no cable.
The only difference being that the good people will not have had time to evacuate, so the looter class won't have the streets to themselves the way they did in New Orleans. Think about what the Korean shopkeepers did during the Rodney King riots for a model.
LA, with its gigantic gang problem, would fare worse than San Francisco, which has priced much of its underclass right out of the city. The only "New Orleans" scenes in post-quake San Francisco will feature a gay man and a feminist getting into an argument over who gets to take the last surviving Gucci purse. ;)
In my profession I have to treat the illnesses - real and imagined - of mostly white medicaid recipients. These people are professional victims who demand "special" treatment because it is "owed" to them. This is the universal welfare mentality and is not specific to any ethnic group.
I came to the conclusion years ago that the end-result of welfare spending is a permanent criminal underclass of mostly fat, always lazy, infinitely stupid people who - if they vote at all - ALWAYS vote the liberal party (Democrat) line. The Dims know this and they exploit these people to no end - especially at the local level.
End it, don't mend it.
--amen---I have several step relatives all of whom seem to think that pregnancy care is a given--"Title 19" seems to be the catch phrase---
How apt, "political pets". So far the discussion is over when people are identified as poor, or poor and black. That shoulod be a starting point, not end. I do hope that many will find opportunities where they have gone.
It is. And not only that, it's designed so that everyone never grows up, never accepts responsibility, never achieves adulthood. What the left promotes today is an entirely new kind of slavery - a voluntary form of slavery -where everyone is born a child and remains a child forever.
well, Buddy Buchanan of Jackson Miss would sure know about corrupt local government.
Posters are drunk on excerpting.
Amazing as to the lack of self reliance our current generation has.
God Bless the folks who are not a burden on our society as they are the true Americans IMO. Take responsibility, never allow your loved ones to be adopted by a socialists welfare machine that has to date destroyed the familiy as well as the individual that has been swept up in such a manner.
Those that live within their means, have the ability to prepare and plan and have redundent resources locally an otherwise are the best insurance for liberty and safety one can procure.
Develop skills, improvise and survive all the threats mother nature, society and life can bring upon you.
Whats funny in a way is that the homeless person knows more about surviving the elements than the person in a multi million dollar highrise in big cities......
Quidnuc Syndrome?
Yup.
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