[hinckley buzzard]

Is the concept of planning and preparation utterly alien?

If these folks had the habit of planning and preparing, they wouldn't be squatting in these trailers in the first place. The passivity and fatalism of the underclass is literally an alien kind of mentality to most of us who are at least reasonably functional. What we saw on TV during Katrina was a glimpse of a different world, and these are the denizens of that world.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I work for the military defending EEO cases. I see "The passivity and fatalism" in another form. Even among middle class working people, particularly Blacks there is a strong element of "the government owes me." They blame the government or discrimination or everyone but there own action or omissions. What I see is that the people filing complaints could go to school and get more education, learn how to prepare a better resume (for that matter learn how to write better), rather than complain to EEO about discrimination.