[SJackson]

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[damncat]

And now it's being exported to other cities, what joy!

[Desdemona]

I have never lived in nor have I ever visited New Orleans. I don't first-hand know its sights, sounds or people. I must ask: What was it in that city that, after the storm had passed, quickly made men embrace savagery? What caused people there to rape and to murder, to steal from the desperate, to loot things unconnected to survival? What caused organized groups of people to attempt murder on those coming to save them? Why didn't their neighbors - the good people- band together to stop them from doing those things? The answer is simple: For the last forty years they had been taught by the creators of the Welfare State that they were permanently absolved from the responsibility of tending to their lives.

Or as simple as they just moved the ghetto indoors? There's a reason there are bars on every window and door in New Orleans. If people actually think some of those elements of lawlessness don't exsist regularly in the ghettos, they are nuts. People may not have taken food water and medicine to the Superdome, but they took the crack pipes.

This is the sort of thing that goes on in the ghettos. It just happens that the spotlight was on it.

[Tolik]

Nailed It!
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[XRdsRev]

Unfortunately for too many people in our society, honor and self sacrifice are obsolete concepts.

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>The answer is simple: For the last forty years they had been taught by the creators of the Welfare State that they were permanently absolved from the responsibility of tending to their lives.

And that won't get better any time soon. People get addicted to having a central authority deal with their problems and then fail miserably when that authority vanishes.

[Pirate21]

From yesterday:

People must note what results from the creation of a "dependency class" -- and realize that the growth of that class is the goal of Socialists such as Hillary Clinton.

Remember this quote? "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." What do you think the "common good" is but the dependency class? It's the Socialist strategy of "keepin' 'em down". That "'em" is "us"....anyone outside the ruling class of the likes of Biden, Boxer, Clinton, Kennedy, Pelosi.

Watch and see who recovers more quickly from the damages of the hurricane: those who roll up their sleeves and take an active role in recovery, or those who await perpetual handouts because it's all that they've ever known....then vote accordingly. Who do you want in charge...enablers or those who keep people disabled by making them dependent? (Hint: The aforementioned senators are among the latter.)

This should be a big social lesson to come out of the Katrina tragedy...at the proper time.