An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State

TIA Daily ^ | 09-02-05 | Robert Tracinski

[mtbopfuyn]

Similar mentality to 1992 in LA after the Reginald Denny trial.

[thulldud]

Bumped.

Watching to see how long it stays up. Truth hurts more, the less you are used to facing it.

[kjam22]

There is something wrong in New Orleans that goes beyond race and beyond the basic human condition.

That is very true. The company I work for used to have an office right there across the street from the superdome. I've spent time down there.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

What New Orleans needs (and needed) is more Jabbar Gibson values.

[EGPWS]

Stating the obvious becomes a notworthy event.

Conveying the obvious can only create an atmosphere of contemplation for the oblivious as to the status quo, which in turn at the least, helps to open minds to other ways of thinking.

Notworthy?

I think not..

[OldFriend]

Thanks for reminding everyone that there is good and bad in every group.

[petitfour]

My husband calls this "The Liberal Morality."

[OldFriend]

This is the picture that I choose to remember about Katrina.

[GungaLaGunga]

TRACINSKI is the first to nail it. Dead on. A bulls-eye.

[mtbopfuyn]

And when your leaders make it so easy to sit on your fanny and cash a check once a month

I've posted this in the past. I used to work for the state (Texas) and shared clerical help with the welfare department. We had secretaries and workers quit in disgust because the welfare checks were larger than the workers' paychecks.

[apackof2]

The man-made disaster is the welfare state.

Amen!

[July 4th]

I said it last night, and I think it bears repeating.

Of all of the thousands of people in New Orleans, Jabbar Gibson is one of the only ones who made the decision to take his life into his own hands, and help himself and others. This uncovers the real social failure. You have thousands of people in the city who just sat and waited for the government. Moral: in crisis, you gotta depend on yourself. Good job, Jabbar. You saved your ass along with 70 others. If only the rest of the city was so resourceful.

[niteowl77]

There is something wrong in New Orleans that goes beyond race and beyond the basic human condition.My uncle moved to Chalmette in 1963, and the last few times he visited family back here in Iowa, he was scathing about what New Orleans had become in terms of crime and utter, unapologetic dependancy. His job took him across the South, and NO was the bottom of his yardstick for measuring human behavior.

We have not hard from he or his family since Monday, and we continue to pray that they are safe.

[socialismisinsidious]

actually the welfare state breeds "learned helplessness" and the feeling of entitlement


"Personal responsibility is a difficult thing to ask for in a nation which has attempted to find a societal "root cause" for all things." Shapley R. Hunter

[CommieCrusher]

WOW is right,this is a real eye opener the welfare is that
where the term THE BIG EASY comes from?Also thats what
happens when you have Libs running a state.

[gondramB]

"We have not hard from he or his family since Monday, and we continue to pray that they are safe."


I hope they are all right.. They could be some place reasonably safe but not yet able to get to a phone.

[C2ShiningC]

self-induced helplessness

WE did it to them - if we are the government (and we are) - in the name of "compassion". But it's the kind of compassion that is a disguise for a bone-deep racism, a plantation mentality that insists some folks just aren't capable of looking after themselves and their own, that they are really children and thus need our help from the cradle to the grave. Now that we are beyond the legal barriers to equality, we are at the hearts and minds level. And the racist will remain unconvinced as to the equality of black Americans as long as blacks enshroud themselves in this veil of victimhood. Their leadership encourages this attitude; black Americans who live up to their promise (such as Dr Rice and Secretary Powell) are derided as "inauthentic." It is deeply sad and a terrible waste of human industry and potential.

If you never taught your child how to speak or use a spoon, nobody would call you compassionate. They would call you an idiot.

[lmavk]

excellent article!!

[ThePythonicCow]

This current post is a good one. I trust it stays. Thanks, Chief Engineer.

DoughtyOne wrote:

My post saying the same damned thing

Too bad you had to pee on the parade with your annoyance that a post you made yesterday was pulled. Perhaps there was a good reason for pulling it; perhaps it displayed the same temperment that this current reply of yours displayed. Perhaps it was a total mistake that your post was pulled; in which case you could take it easy on whatever admin botched it, and take some delight that your wisdom saw the light of day anyway, over another posters signature.

[Pharmboy]

Brilliant.

I remember 9-11 in NYC clearly since I lived and worked in Manhattan at the time. Ethnicity and color did not matter--everyone pitched in. There was no crime. What a different deal went down in the Big Easy.