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Posted on 09/03/2005 3:35:13 PM PDT by Chief Engineer
We'll see how long this lasts. My post saying the same damned thing didn't last five minutes yesterday.
Welfare breeds poverty!
Poverty breeds hopelessness!
What I've been saying for days now.
Poverty breeds hopelessness!
Only for some...
For some poverty sparks determination and eventual success.
If George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington could do it in their day, there are a whole lot of people who could damned well do it today.
You're right, but not for all. And when your leaders make it so easy to sit on your fanny and cash a check once a month, they're enablers.
Bump
ABSOLUTELY!
Thank you.
Now, there have been times in my life I was darn broke. But there's usually some way you can raise up enough for a bus ticket a few hours north, for Pete's sake.
Yes, he is right on target. Bet you don't hear it anywhere else, but that doesn't make it less true.
Wow, great article!
Yes he is right on with the sharp accuracy of a laser beam!
The article is powerful and true. Regardless, all people need to be rescued. Mayor Nagin's failure to use the 3-400 buses that were available for help in evacuation, is mostly responsible for all this chaos and many unnecessary deaths. Much of this could have been avoided. Criminal negligence, in my opinion.
I'm broadcast live in front of a pre-recorded studio audience.
The man-made disaster we are now witnessing in New Orleans did not happen over the past four days. It happened over the past four decades. Hurricane Katrina merely exposed it to public view.
this is a wonderful article and hit the matter head on
There is something really unnatural about this.
Twice my neighborhood has been severely damaged - once from Tornadoes that went down the center of my street and at an apartment in a neighborhood flood by a hurricane.
The first time in ( an all white ) neighborhood it wasn't 5 minutes after the last tornado when the men came out to clear the the street with chainsaws while the women checked on the neighbors.
The second time in ( a majority black) neighborhood, it was the teenagers who first organized into groups going house to house to make sure every was Ok and offering to help move cars if the people were sick or elderly. I was recovering from an operation and they saved my car that was starting to float.
There is something wrong in New Orleans that goes beyond race and beyond the basic human condition.
I dunno... I don't think the people there have the welfare system to blame for how they are. You know, it's just them. It's just a segment of society that is what it is, and mostly by choice. If you got rid of welfare... I don't think it would change them much. Just my opinion.
This is brilliant and absolutely right.
I said the same thing to my daughter yesterday. I can't see this point ever being made in the media, however.
What a shame.
He's a Democrat, so I'd be surprised to see any charges, but you are correct, IMO.
Maybe, but not for sure. FNC interviewed a police woman earlier who said they did not release prisoners. She may have meant her specific facility, I don't know. Still, it makes sense to continue waiting for more specific reports. The welfare angle has been brought up by others as well here on FR.
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