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Some thoughts 've been struggling to put into words. Until recently I couldn't' type this, because I didn't know if my family were alive or dead or if they had houses to return to in Slidell.

Socialsim vs Darwanism

What we are seeing in New Orleans this week should serve as the capstone to any argument over the crippling effects of socialism extended over generations.

Having studied political science and focused those studies on Communism and Fascism practiced in Europe during the 20th century, I already knew that socialism and communism are not sustainable means of governance. I acknowledge that socialism can actually serve a purpose during dire emergencies when local democratic government would crumble under the weight of the immediate strain of events. In fact we are now currently instituting and advocating a certain form of fascism (militant nationalist socialism) in order to restore order and humanitarian services to New Orleans. Socialist programs like the New Deal and public works programs of the FDR administration helped America claw her way out of the Great Depression.

The problem is that socialism sustains life where it is naturally unsustainable. Socialism is a direct affront to the laws of natural selection and order. Socialism, as we've seen so recently, is an affront to Mother Nature herself.

Socialist work programs to improve the lives of the urban poor and prevent yearly flooding of the city, built the New Orleans levee system. Without the occasionally floods the natural silt levels of the wetlands in and around the city were not replenished. The city naturally starting sinking below sea level even while its population continued to explode.

The government is providing housing in areas below sea level betting that outmoded levees built to withstand a Category 3 hurricane will hold. They are gambling against Mother Nature. They are sustaining live where life should not exist. The government programs are not even fulfilling the basic premise of government- to protect and defend citizens. The levees are outmoded and need upgrades. The upgrades are not completed because it would mean clearing people and businesses from the area.The Dutch have mastered the art of life below sea level. They have the most impressive levee and lock system in the world. To institute such a system in New Orleans would require an estimated 10-20% of the city space currently occupied by low income or government subsidized housing.

The majority of people left in the New Orleans basin, and it is in fact a sink-like basin waiting to be filled, were poor, black and under-educated. They were a product of government housing, government schools, and government welfare programs. They depended on the government to provide buses to evacuate them. The depended on the government that allowed them to live against those levees- below sea level- to come literally bail them out. Those that survived the initial flood are depending on the government to tell them were to go, what to do and how to survive.

Natural selection no longer works in this demographic subsection of the urban population. They have lived for years in places where housing is substandard, jobs are scare and low paying, and health concerns are rampant. Animals and our human ancestors would have moved long ago. Without the government there to feed, clothe and nurture them, these people would have died or moved as well.

And that is where socialism has ultimately failed the poor of New Orleans. Socialism put them in New Orleans. Socialism drove New Orleans under sea level. Socialism broke down and failed to provide evacuation when the people needed socialized government the most. And now socialism has committed the ultimate failure- it has failed to instill basic survival instincts and personal responsibility in entire generations of the populace. Instead of neighbors helping neighbors and leaders stepping forward from the crowd to fight for survival, urban gangs rule the streets while the elderly die.

There was an interview with a woman screaming wanting to know why no one took care of the body of a deceased elderly woman nearby. My response? You are a human being. Stand up and take care of her and take care of yourself. Your elected socialist government has let you down. Welcome to Darwinism.