I thought this would be a good picture of a self help guy.
Posted on 11/04/2005 11:12:36 AM PST by TIADaily.com
The moral corruption uncovered by Hurricane Katrina was not confined to the actions of a few thousand citizens over a few days in New Orleans. The moral influence of the welfare state goes all the way to the top, corrupting all levels of government and the nation's whole political culture...
New Orleans is a city that has long been famous for the corruption of its local government, but this kind of large-scale, persistent corruption is also a hallmark of the welfare state. In a city corrupted by welfare, the job of city officials is not to protect the lives and property of productive citizens, but to ensure the flow of patronage to political supporters, whether that takes the form of welfare handouts to voters or the awarding of federally funded construction contracts to campaign contributors...
If the facts about what happened in New Orleans came out slowly, that is because of the failure of the national media. The left-leaning mainstream media is neither a beneficiary of welfare nor the dispenser of welfare; it is the cheerleader of the welfare state—and that role brings its own form of ideological corruption.
In theory, the welfare state is based on a disastrously false premise: the helplessness of the individual to rise by his own efforts is a fact contradicted by the entire history of American capitalism. In practice, the welfare state has led to disastrous results: the perpetuation of poverty rather than its elimination. To act as a cheerleader for the welfare state, therefore, requires a massive evasion of the facts. This took two forms, practices so institutionalized as to be consistent, and so subtle that many reporters did not even seem to notice what they were doing...
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It`s not called looting anymore.
It is "Self-help Humanitarian Aid".
Didn`t you get the memo?
All we have to do is give more, more, MORE taxpayer money, that will solve these issues.
Self Help Interception (of other people's) Things
Even their mayor has moved away!
(I just wish it wasn't to Texas :-(
It is "Self-help Humanitarian Aid".
Didn`t you get the memo?
I thought this would be a good picture of a self help guy.
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