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

The Intellectual Activist ^ | Sept 02, 2005 | Robert Tracinski

[etcetera]

What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of the welfare state. What we consider "normal" behavior in an emergency is behavior that is normal for people who have values and take the responsibility to pursue and protect them. People with values respond to a disaster by fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the difficulties they face. They don't sit around and complain that the government hasn't taken care of them. And they don't use the chaos of a disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow men.

[Grampa Dave]

More photos re the buses and the short distance from the N O's bus yard to the dome. Thanks to Paleo Conservative for compiling this sequence of very damning photos and Prime Choice for his great graphic arts summary:

[Just mythoughts]

"But how it is that so many of those on public assistance were congregated in New Orleans...well, I just don't know how that occured."


That is how one can collect the most at the taxpayer expense. The larger the numbers of people the larger the take.

Mother nature ripped off the walls of liberalism for the whole world to see and its wall builders are naked and exposed and need to find cover = Bush fault.

[Just mythoughts]

According to the best I can figure these lots are most likely visible from I10. Wonder why Whoraldo didn't find them?

[Bigun]

This article and your response have said all there is to say. To bad that those who are most in need of reading them never will.

[Grampa Dave]

I watched Whorealdo about 4 minutes when he was in front of the Convention Center. I have no idea where it is in relation to the buses and I10.

Whorealdo appeared to be on some type of mood altercating substances.

[aardvark1]

One thing all of us need to keep in mind is that the news media, including Fox, are trying to find the most outrageous situations and paint the whole situation with these extreme circumstances. I'm sure there are many people who are doing all they can for themselves, their families, and their neighbors that we don't hear about because it's not "riveting."

OTOH, I too have been disappointed, even sickened, by those who have taken these extreme measures that the news media seem to find. I hope and pray that I would behave more honorably if in the same situation.

[Dustbunny]

People living in piles of their own trash, while petulantly complaining that other people aren't doing enough to take care of them and then shooting at those who come to rescue them—this is not just a description of the chaos at the Superdome. It is a perfect summary of the 40-year history of the welfare state and its public housing projects.

The welfare state—and the brutish, uncivilized mentality it sustains and encourages—is the man-made disaster that explains the moral ugliness that has swamped New Orleans. And that is the story that no one is reporting.

Exactly!!

[CDHart]

Thanks for the post. This is exactly what my husband and I were talking about as we watched Fox this last week.

Carolyn

[shuckmaster]

Five thousand hungry people standing on a bridge surrounded by water and not one of them has a fishing pole.

[cgbg]

My question to the welfare socialists is: what kind of morbid perversity drives a person to place welfare housing in a known hurricane target in the first place?

What an excellent question--and I think the know the answer.

The government of the United States builds public projects (including housing) in all Congressional Districts because each Congress critter wants to take home some bacon. The construction of these projects provides jobs for the locals, and every Congress critter will be at the Ground Breaking and Grand Opening to brag about what a great thing they have done for their district. The locals love it, and incumbents who follow this practice are elected and re-elected and re-elected.

Flood plains mean little when a Congressional re-election is at stake.

[Chief Engineer]

Thanks for reposting this article. I was contemplating doing it myself. The original post can be found at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476662/posts

[ExTexasRedhead]

There seems to be a definite lack of criticism of the State and local governments. It's all Bush's fault--no, it's your local government's fault first and foremost. For all those that take welfare, now there's work for you to do to earn the $$ you take every month. They can get off their, in some cases, big butts and go to work. They have enough energy to rape, loot, and murder. In fact, they can come out of the dark ages and move into the 21st century.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Some Texans have called into talk shows and said that the "crime" has already started to rise.

[claudiustg]

---Whorealdo appeared to be on some type of mood altercating substances.---

Whorealdo! That's not the mike! You're talking into the baby"s head!

[Grampa Dave]

Whorealdo should be within a 100 yards of babies, small dogs and cats and old people.

[Grampa Dave]

Whorealdo should be within a 100 yards of babies, small dogs and cats and old people.

[Grampa Dave]

Whorealdo should be within a 100 yards of babies, small dogs and cats and old people.

[Grampa Dave]

Whorealdo shouldn't be allowed to be within a 100 yards of babies, small dogs and cats and old people.

[fightu4it]

bump for a later read

[T Lady]

Excellent piece. Period.