[etcetera]

This article explains Superdome crime. Sorry if this is a re-post.

[Wiseghy]

I like Ben Stein's quote "...imagine if the local authorities were in charge of your healthcare"

[Hexenhammer]

Ah, finally. An article that explains that the failures of Katrina were not failures of that state as much as failures of the population to care for themselves and take their own well being in their own hands.

[WasDougsLamb]

Good article. Says it all.

[lunarbicep]

a dead-on article. thanks for posting it

[SevenDaysInMay]

For 300 years it has been known that N.O.'s a mass suicide pit awaiting either the River flood or a storm flood. Water World Plantation's luck simply ran out.

The crime shall be IF we allow our pandering politicians to redevelop the swamp. No amount of money can protect the fools who may repopulate that folly.

[BIRDS]

The article certainly identifies well the cultural dogma many who were there in N.O. learned from their peers and elders. It's not so much "a welfare state" as it is a cultural indoctrination that appears devoid of other influences.

The truly needy -- elderly without resources, disabled, children without families/parents -- are left to suffer the consequences and further social disinfranchisement brought about by criminal character.

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.

Los Angeles, Miami, other cities, take note.

[Lancer_N3502A]

BIG PING

[guitarnick40]

"Didn't need no welfare state, everybody pulled his weight...Gee our old Lasalle ran great....those were the days..."

We've been fighting these liberals for a long time now, and this disaster was for sure an uncovering of the failures of the welfare state.

[Humal]

"The man-made disaster is the welfare state."

Exactly! My sympathy for the remaining people in New Orleans dropped considerably when they showed a woman on the back of a truck screaming, gesturing, and demanding that someone come & help her. The government takes care of them for so long (generations) that it is expected and assumed that it is the government's duty to do so not their own. This article, if it shows up at all in MSM, will probably generate a lot of heat for the author.

[Razz Barry]

" 'These troops are...under my orders to restore order in the streets,' she said. 'They have M-16s, and they are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and they are more than willing to do so if necessary and I expect they will.' "

This is something she should have said before the storm hit.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP

[shuckmaster]

Here's a repeat of the comment I posted yesterday:

This event has made it painfully obvious that in a disaster situation, the people raised on welfare socialism will just sit helplessly on a bridge for days demanding that people raised on working class ideals come and save them. 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?

[Victoria]

When confronted with a disaster, people usually rise to the occasion. They work together to rescue people in danger, and they spontaneously organize to keep order and solve problems.

These traits didn't seem to exist in most of those we saw on television.

The article does a good job of covering the key points. The poor are often not accustomed to being challenged to meet their own needs or that of their families, and they don't seem to have the necessary skills to do it.

As God is my witness, I would not have sat stranded on a concrete island for five days hopelessly waiting to die without doing anything to help myself. I really don't get how people could not care enough to want to survive.

[islander-11]

Thanks for posting this excellent article. This should be mandatory reading for the Hillary - Socialist crowd...

[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:

[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.

[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

[fightu4it]

bump for a later read