No good deed goes unpunished.
I think the psychologist at the end is as bad as the Browns. He totally excuses their actions. Oh, they were angry because they were forced to accept charity. No, they weren't forced. They could have turned it down and figured something out on their own.
And this is exactly what is done with your hard earned money that is wealth transfrred to people of this ilk.
Someday, taxpayers are going to snap.
Giving will always entail, a suffering of souls. Give freely without pre-conceived notions of gratitude, or you will suffer from pre-meditated resentment. These "givers" should be deeply ashamed of their publicly announced sniveling, pride filled bs.
---I am anxious to see what the excuse is for this one. Animals!
Fine. Try living on the street. Wow, what a bunch of ingrates.
Most head-shrinkers, these days, believe that "it's all
relative, there's no right or wrong".
I was taking a course at a local university. In the class were other adults my age, and some college aged kids.
The kids were getting ready to go into a nearby 'inner city' to help with the yearly clean-up of empty lots, and parks and so on. They were all excited and wide-eyed idealists.
During the discussion, one of the adults asked the kids why the people who lived there didn't pick up their own trash. You should have seen the looks on their faces!! It never occurred to them!
Celebrate diversity!
Wish I could say we are surprised. We are not. Many evacuees from Katrina were good people needing help. There are also those who are not, and are in our area causing all sort of problems. Drugs, murders, you name it.
Bless those who opened a home and hearts to them.
A final comment.... these people have lived generations on the "gimmie trail".... the expect and do not respect.
Nana
What a load of total BS!! The only people who "act out" and become "extremely frustrated" are lowlife, selfish, losers who feel they are entitled to whatever they can get because even when bad things happen that are nobodys fault, somebody has to PAY. It's vile and disgusting. People like the Browns are ungratreful slime. How utterly appalling.
1. Most of these people should not have been taken out of Louisiana. New Orleans is a bad place for reason.
2. Except for one person I haven't heard a single Katrina evacuee say thank you in public.
3. Hopefully, the DiMaggio's have learned a lesson.
It's sometimes nice to watch a liberal get educated.
Therein might lie the problem, said psychologist Harald Graning of Confidential Counseling of Westminster.
While the Browns might look like the ultimate ingrates, their response is not unnatural, he said.
"Suppose that you were living your life," he said, "and all of a sudden God came down and destroyed your house? You'd probably be pissed."
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Suppose that you were living your life, and a deadly hurricane began tracking toward your house? You made unwise choices for whatever reasons, and suffered devastating consequences, but you and your family escaped with your lives, and God provided a way out of the devastation, and a home for you and your family with all of the necessities of life. Those provisions were free, with only the expectation that you would bear the responsibilty of maintaining them, and leaving them in the condition in which you found them for the next family that might be in need of them. Wouldn't you be thankful? Wouldn't you be appreciative enough to meet those expectations because you would want to help someone else the way you had been helped?
However, you could follow the counsel of the "psychologist" - or, perhaps your "natural" instincts - and blame good, and excuse evil, and be offended that the provisions were too little, and too late. He would say that is "not unnatural", and he is a psychologist, so he must know - right?
I'm sorry, but this is no excuse. Accepting charity doesn't demean you. Good people would appreciate the help. This case sounds like they didn't get the best of everything they thought they had coming to them.
something I have to tell myself however, is that "giving" to a needy person or family can help the giver more than the receiver, and we can't always look at where or who our giving goes to....we're going to be dissappointed.....we have to instead, focus on how charity is improving our lives, our outlooks, our humanity, our Christianity....
lately, I have been more prone to help people that I know personally, or neices or nephews that are struggling with young families.....I don't even like to give to the food bank anymore.....I'd rather bring stuff personally to someone I know that needs it....
WELL, THEY TURNED THE DOME INTO A GHETTO IN THREE DAYS, WHY IS THIS SURPRISING?
BFL