Posted on 08/29/2006 8:27:05 AM PDT by shortstop
"While those who were dependent, whose mindset was based on the assumption that others had an obligation to take care of them, have failed miserably. They have whined for bigger payments and more services, gotten both and insisted that it was not enough. Each new largesse has engendered not gratitude, but anger. Each new benefit has created more dependence and personal failure."
This author NAILED it!
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Lesson-----Chocolate Cities don't work well.
It's been a direct or sometimes indirect wall to wall bash of the Bush administration from the start.
Your right... I am sick of hearing anouy Katrina cry babies. I know there are many heroes but mdm wants to focus in on the down and needy who can not TAKE CARE of themselves.............. nbc is first in the blame Bush game..........
Thank you so much for posting this.
To paraphrase Forrest Gump, "Media is as media does." They just can't wait to bash the administration on anything and everything, from actual faults (to which they have no better idea) to imagined ones (where only they see an imminent threat...which, ironically, is how many of them described Iraq prior to us going in there - not the President's description.
So we ride the wave, hopefully countering the lies and the spin, and continuing to contrast our plan for victory to the Democrats' plan for defeat - of Bush and the Republicans.
I think it's time for a "high-up" in the Administration to say what is painfully obvious to most of us, and let political correctness be damned: Perhaps we could finish the war much faster, and start to bring some of our brave troops home, if the Democrats were as committed to defeating America's enemies as they are about defeating America's leaders.
I suggest for next mardi gras they should make floats that really do float.
The only lesson of Katrina is that the next time there is a disaster and you see a news van and reporters, run the other way.
Reporters are the scum of our society, they are leaches, punks, agitators, bastards, political hacks, commie-vampires, elitist snobs, creeps, and should have their teeth knocked out whenever they approach.
Ditto!
the lesson of Katrina
is to put floodgates on the canals
“Watching cradle-to-grave liberalism shred itself to pieces in the calming breeze of reality” by FReeper BureaucratusMaximus 9/2/05
The lesson of Katrina is to clean up cesspools of Demagogic political decadence and corruption before they collapse into such weakness and helplessness.
No the lesson of Kartina is, never live in a gulf coast city surrounded by a lake, and a river 10 feet below sea level!
Another lesson is that the scumbags of the Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms will sink as low as they have to in order to smear Republicans by editorially morphing an agency like FEMA into a "first responder" while at the same time asserting that Bush and the Republican Congress reacted poorly (and subliminally suggesting that maybe the Republicans in fact caused the hurricane by their environmental policies).
Naturally, most of these Democrat newsrooms also went into full spin cycle to protect the Democrat mayor and the Democrat governor from responsibility, and no way would these Democrat newsrooms examine the welfare-state's role in the New Orleans circus as neighborhoods full of government-dependent illiterates flailed their arms in helplessness.
The Gulf Coast is in the hurricane zone. It has always been in the hurricane zone, and it always will be.
Katrina, as bad as it was, was not a unique event. Hurricanes come every year, several times a year. If you are going to live on the Gulf Coast, you accept this and devise strategies for dealing with it. If you are going to be a public official in a Gulf Coast community, hurricanes are a part of your bailiwick, just as surely as roads, sewers, and trash pickup.
Four states were hit hard by several hurricanes in close succession. In three of four states, people have set about to rebuild with little fanfare. They are essentially the same people spread across the region, but only in New Orleans, under the disastrous watch of Nagin and Blanco do we have this ugly example of what happens when unworthy people hold office.
The press are doing their best to re-write history, but in doing so they have to ignore the fact that New Orleans was only one city out of several hit, that Louisiana was only one out of four badly hit. And it was only there that the people went out of control, the police went out of control, rescue workers were denied entry at the governor's order, and the victims sealed in and prevented from escaping.
The Katrina situation in New Orleans was criminal, and Nagin and Blanco should be removed from office in shame. Instead their party and a dishonest press have rallied to their defense.
I'd like to buy the author a drink. He has spoken the truth. I can only imagine the hate mail he's gonna get on this one but it needs to be said, shouted from the rooftops. Well-written piece.
Another lesson from Katrina is that the Press will not hold Democrats accountable for their failure to perform their sworn duties.
How much money was allocated by the Federal, State, and local governments to keep the levies in shape?
How much of that money was diverted for more glamorous projects by the Democrats in the House and Senate, by Democrats at the State level, by Democrats at the local level?
How much oversight was actually given to how the money was spent (for example, there are at least 8 local Levy boards in New Orleans responsible for different parts of the Levy, each independently elected, each accountable to no one).
This cries out for an investigatory reporter to extract the information and lay it out for the public to see. But the Press is on the side of the Democrats, so it won't happen -- better to just blame George Bush.
Between New Orleans Levys, Big Dig Tunnel, and the lack of illegal immigration law enforcement, there is plenty of evidence that you can't trust the government to protect its citizens.
"Certainly, this is a generalization. There were clearly many people and communities who stood up to the storm and its damage stoically, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and working tirelessly to clean up and rebuild.
But they didn’t make the news."
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That's right. There are those still recovering from storms which occurred almost 2 years ago. Where I live, we still have flood damage from Hurricane Ivan in October 2004. But people aren't waiting around for a handout. They are getting themselves together. I'm really sick and tired of all this whining and moaning from and about New Orleans. If the other places hit hard by storms can rebuild, so can they. I think we've pumped enough money into NO's recovery. It's time they do their part and get their act together.
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