Only speaking the truth

[MXcutie]

Been sitting here with my *** in a wad, wanting to speak out about the
bull**** going on in New Orleans.

For the people of New Orleans... First we would like to say, Sorry for
your loss.

With that said, Let's go through a few hurricane rules: (Unlike an
earthquake, we know it's coming)

#1. A mandatory evacuation means just that... Get the hell out. Don't
blame the
Government after they tell you to go. If they hadn't said anything, I
can see
the argument. They said get out... if you didn't, it's your fault, not
theirs.
(We don't want to hear it, even if you don't have a car, you can get
out.)

#2. If there is an emergency, stock up on water and non-perishables. If
you
didn't do this, it's not the governments fault you're starving.

#2a. If you run out of food and water, find a store that has some.
(Remember,
shoes, TV's, DVD's and CD's are not edible. Leave them alone.)

#2b. If the local store is too looted of food or water, leave your
neighbor's TV
and stereo alone. (See # 2a) They worked hard to get their stuff. Just
because
they were smart enough to leave during a mandatory evacuation, doesn't
give you
the right to take their stuff... it's theirs, not yours.

#3. If someone comes in to help you, don't shoot at them and then
complain no
one is helping you. I'm not getting shot to help save some dumbass who
didn't
leave when told to do so.

#4. If you are in your house that is completely under water, your
belongings are
probably too far gone for anyone to want them. If someone does want
them, Let
them have them and hopefully they'll die in the filth. Just leave! (For
goodness sakes, it's New Orleans, find a voodoo warrior and put a curse
on
them)

#5. My tax money should not pay to rebuild a 2 million dollar house, a
sports
stadium or a floating casino. Also, my tax money shouldn't go to rebuild
a city
that is under sea level. You wouldn't build your house on quicksand
would you?
You want to live below sea-level, do your country some good and join the
Navy.

#6. Regardless what the Poverty Pimps Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton
want you to
believe, The US Government didn't create the Hurricane as a way to
eradicate
the black people of New Orleans; (Neither did Russia as a way to destroy
America). The US Government didn't cause global warming that caused the
hurricane (We've been coming out of an ice age for over a million
years).

#7. The government isn't responsible for giving you anything. This is
the land
of the free and the home of the brave, but you gotta work for what you
want.
McDonalds and Wal-Mart are always hiring, get a damn job and stop
spooning off
the people who are actually working for a living.

[TM426]

LMAO the truth... I got this in an email

Thing I have learned from watching the news on TV during the last

eight days:

The hurricane only hit black families' property.

New Orleans was devastated and no other city was affected by the hurricane .

Mississippi is reported to have a tree blown down.

New Orleans has no white people.

The hurricane blew a limb off a tree in the yard of an Alabama resident.

When you are hungry after a hurricane, steal a big screen TV.

The hurricane did 23 billion dollars in



improvements to New Orleans.

Now the city is welfare, looters and gang free and they are in your
city .

White folks don't make good news stories.

Don't give thanks to the thousands that came to help rescue you; instead ***** because the government hasn't given you a debit card yet.

Only black family members got separated in the hurricane rescue efforts.

Ignore warnings to evacuate and the white folks will come get you and give you money for being stupid.

[2004exrider]

very well put;)

[FoxRacing81]

Lmfao TM!!


But MXCutie, that is sooo much the truth. God, I just hate people!!!!!

[Killa250ex]

Amen, Stop ur complaining ppl, Sure We feel bad, but they told you to leave...and you didnt so, Deal with it

. Regardless what the Poverty Pimps Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton

LMGDAO, I havent laughed that hard in a while....!

[DVXchic]

I dont think this site contains all white people, i agree that they were warned and should have gotten thier asses out, but they were not all black people.

Your government took way too long to get their butts in gear and alot of people died because of that, not enough food or water was delivered to save the thousands stranded.

this is a flame waiting to be started. but all i see is predjudice and that is the number one problem.

I am white, but i like everyone.

stupidity is the #1 killer.

[FoxRacing81]

Originally posted by DVXchic
I dont think this site contains all white people, i agree that they were warned and should have gotten thier asses out, but they were not all black people.

Your government took way too long to get their butts in gear and alot of people died because of that, not enough food or water was delivered to save the thousands stranded.

this is a flame waiting to be started. but all i see is predjudice and that is the number one problem.

I am white, but i like everyone.

stupidity is the #1 killer.


Our government acted immediatly. It was The Mayor of New Orleans that needed the 24 hours to decide to send help in.

[Smoker]

People are people regardless of color, it's just that there is a lot of stupid, lazy people out there. I agree, I feel bad for those folks however the amount of people that let themselves be helpless, is just ridicilious. For anyone that's been through a disaster, did you expect the government to come and pay for your loses? I would imagine no.

[TM426]

Originally posted by FoxRacing81
Our government acted immediatly. It was The Mayor of New Orleans that needed the 24 hours to decide to send help in.

Hes right^^^ and where are all the F'n countries that we help . Their sitting there doing nothing after we spend billions helping them. The U.S. is real generous.

Originally posted by 2004exrider
very well put;)


yep^^^^^

[Warnerade]

Originally posted by TM426
Hes right^^^ and where are all the F'n countries that we help . Their sitting there doing nothing after we spend billions helping them. The U.S. is real generous. you think becuase we help other countries, they should automaticaly be obliged to help us? you gotta be kidding me man...the countries we give billions of dollars to, cant afford to help us out in the first place, thats why we re giving them money and helping them, becuase they cant do it for themselves....

thats part of the problem these days...whenever anyone offers help to someone, they expect something in return..no matter what it is, whatever happened to just helping out to be a good neighbor?

[SRH]

Originally posted by MXcutie
Been sitting here with my *** in a wad, wanting to speak out about the
bull**** going on in New Orleans.

For the people of New Orleans... First we would like to say, Sorry for
your loss.

With that said, Let's go through a few hurricane rules: (Unlike an
earthquake, we know it's coming)

#1. A mandatory evacuation means just that... Get the hell out. Don't
blame the
Government after they tell you to go. If they hadn't said anything, I
can see
the argument. They said get out... if you didn't, it's your fault, not
theirs.
(We don't want to hear it, even if you don't have a car, you can get
out.)

#2. If there is an emergency, stock up on water and non-perishables. If
you
didn't do this, it's not the governments fault you're starving.

#2a. If you run out of food and water, find a store that has some.
(Remember,
shoes, TV's, DVD's and CD's are not edible. Leave them alone.)

#2b. If the local store is too looted of food or water, leave your
neighbor's TV
and stereo alone. (See # 2a) They worked hard to get their stuff. Just
because
they were smart enough to leave during a mandatory evacuation, doesn't
give you
the right to take their stuff... it's theirs, not yours.

#3. If someone comes in to help you, don't shoot at them and then
complain no
one is helping you. I'm not getting shot to help save some dumbass who
didn't
leave when told to do so.

#4. If you are in your house that is completely under water, your
belongings are
probably too far gone for anyone to want them. If someone does want
them, Let
them have them and hopefully they'll die in the filth. Just leave! (For
goodness sakes, it's New Orleans, find a voodoo warrior and put a curse
on
them)

#5. My tax money should not pay to rebuild a 2 million dollar house, a
sports
stadium or a floating casino. Also, my tax money shouldn't go to rebuild
a city
that is under sea level. You wouldn't build your house on quicksand
would you?
You want to live below sea-level, do your country some good and join the
Navy.

#6. Regardless what the Poverty Pimps Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton
want you to
believe, The US Government didn't create the Hurricane as a way to
eradicate
the black people of New Orleans; (Neither did Russia as a way to destroy
America). The US Government didn't cause global warming that caused the
hurricane (We've been coming out of an ice age for over a million
years).

#7. The government isn't responsible for giving you anything. This is
the land
of the free and the home of the brave, but you gotta work for what you
want.
McDonalds and Wal-Mart are always hiring, get a damn job and stop
spooning off
the people who are actually working for a living.


she git it from her mama

[Punk'd]

Mississippi is reported to have a tree blown down.

ROFL.......


and I believe were doing everything we can to help people, but seriously.. Just because its America doesnt mean everythings going to be perfect.. We have things so easy compared to most countrys.. We have 2 Hurricanes and everyone goes nuts.. Yes it is terrible, but hello..... this is life.. everything cant be perfect.. Think about the Tusami (sp?) over in India.. It could be so much worse.. Just be thankful is what im trying to say here.. We got it made.

[sikraptor700]

word

[Honda]

Finally!

The truth comes out! Congats!

And get some flood insurance while your at it, for gods sake, your below sea level!

[quads_kicka$$]

Hurricanes suck!!

[wilkin250r]

On the new coverage, I saw black people in need of rescue. They couldn't live in their homes, so they were everywhere else. Street corners, bus stops, parks, any safe place not in standing water, waiting for busses and transportation to evacuate.

Waiting for rescue.

However, the road was littered with white people walking out of town.

That is my horrible, racist comment for the day. I know it's not 100% accurate, not everybody waiting was black, and not everybody walking was white, but that seemed to be the general trend.

[Honda4trax250x]

thank you, its called a NATURAL disaster for a reason..... its nature, not the freakin gov't

[troutman561]

how can u say its not the gov't.. did u know we have a weather machine that creates storms and only hits black ppl.. duh.. why do u tinhk bush hates black ppl.. common sense man


but seriously, people are complaining about the lack of response time... hmm lets look back in history.. 1992, hurricane andrew. FEMA took 2-3 days longer to respond then than they where to respond in NO this yr... hmm then lets tihnk of last yr, i live in Palm Beach and we got hit 2 times within a month.. the 1st sotrm hit i dont remember FEMA being around for a week, but did they make a big deal about it, NO, during hurricane andrew did they complain about it like they are now, NO, weather white, black yellow, red w/e the ppl complaining are the ones who sit on their a sses waiting for the gov't to do everything for them, its the ppl who are on welfare and are a drain on our economy using thye money that we earn at work to buy non-nessesities... but what can be done.. NOTHING, cause america is full of p ussies that are to scared of what ppl will think if we force these ppl to work and contribute to the country they are privleged to live in

[450r51]

ive been waiting for a thread like this to get started, i know its bad what happened in new orleans. but come on i thought black ppl had more commen sense to get out of there. oh and dvxchick u do not know what u r talking about.

[Rico]

I feel sorry for all the beer that was lost......:(

[Woodsrider]

Originally posted by Rico
I feel sorry for all the beer that was lost......:(
Yup, and the Bourbon too:(
But seriously it could be worse.

[bigbadbrad]

whoa when did rico come back, haven't seen you in a while

and on the hurricane, it is the black mentality to steal and wait for help, and then when something happens to them from their own stupidity they just dont do any thing and blame the government. what is making me even madder is how my hard earned miney is now going to be going to go rebuild a party town under sea level. they should just call there losses and froget about that part and move somewheres else, all it is is mother nature reclaiming some land back.

Originally posted by 450r51
ok since we hyjacked this thread im deleting this whole arguement and my comment. u do the same .

what argument?:D

Originally posted by 450r51
eh?

what did you say? that is our word.(if you never seen family guy you wont get it)

Originally posted by 450r51
oh i have, and this is really childish, but really funny cuz im argueing with u over the internet and ur canadian.

wow you make it seem that canadians are a whole different species:huh

Originally posted by 450r51
pretty much. but seriously i like canadiens, and the fact that ur drinking age is only 19 makes me love to go over there to drink. and since good old buffalo is only about 45 minutes away i go over there alot. enough with this.
actually its 18 where i live;)

[Mofo Racing]

with all the people that evacuated to my town they say that there are cars being stolen and people getting mugged in parking garages. the crime rate has shot up and its not safe to go out anymore.

[zeppelin]

Originally posted by FoxRacing81
Our government acted immediatly. It was The Mayor of New Orleans that needed the 24 hours to decide to send help in.

no the mayor didnt do anything wrong, it was the govenor of louisiana kathleen blanco, she was the one that needed 24 hours to decide if she wanted to allow the national government to step in ;)

[Quad18star]

Originally posted by TM426
Hes right^^^ and where are all the F'n countries that we help . Their sitting there doing nothing after we spend billions helping them. The U.S. is real generous.

Wanna know where other countries were at?? Sitting in ports , loaded with supplies to help out , but the your government didn't want any help . Canadian Navy ships loaded with medical supplies , food and water purification machines were held up in ports on the Canadian east coast waiting for Mr. Bush to give the OK to come help . It took a week before he could make that decision . So before you go on blamming other countries for not helping , blame your own government and all the red tape for the delays !!!

Originally posted by Quad18star
Wanna know where other countries were at?? Sitting in ports , loaded with supplies to help out , but the your government didn't want any help . Canadian Navy ships loaded with medical supplies , food and water purification machines were held up in ports on the Canadian east coast waiting for Mr. Bush to give the OK to come help . It took a week before he could make that decision . So before you go on blamming other countries for not helping , blame your own government and all the red tape for the delays !!!

Amen.

[zeppelin]

Originally posted by Punk'd
Mississippi is reported to have a tree blown down.

ROFL.......


and I believe were doing everything we can to help people, but seriously.. Just because its America doesnt mean everythings going to be perfect.. We have things so easy compared to most countrys.. We have 2 Hurricanes and everyone goes nuts.. Yes it is terrible, but hello..... this is life.. everything cant be perfect.. Think about the Tusami (sp?) over in India.. It could be so much worse.. Just be thankful is what im trying to say here.. We got it made.

yall need to get your facts strait, Katrina cause waaaay more damage than the tsunami in India, then factor in Rita, yeah i know.

[Plante400]

u forgot-

dont steal guns and shoot them at the cops when they are trying to rescue people....:scary:

[Warnerade]

Originally posted by Honda4trax250x
thank you, its called a NATURAL disaster for a reason..... its nature, not the freakin gov't no..your wrong. It's called natural selection.

and zeppelin...im not sure how you can say the tsunami caused more damage...please provide some facts to back up your statement...preferably some figures also. Thanks.

[bwamos]

Originally posted by zeppelin
yall need to get your facts strait, Katrina cause waaaay more damage than the tsunami in India, then factor in Rita, yeah i know.

The Tsunami killed 131,000 people.
Katrina killed less than 1500 people across all 3 states (to date).

I'd say the tsunami did about 87 times more damage than Katrina did.

[Warnerade]

Originally posted by bwamos
The Tsunami killed 131,000 people.
Katrina killed 900 people (to date).

I'd say the tsunami did more than 131 times more damage than the hurricane. he must be talking about damage to material belongings...you know, the things you can replace with money....i guess he forgot about the fact you cant replace family and friends:ermm:

[bwamos]

Note: I edited my above post.. the earlier number for katrina was the LA #. I added in the other 2 states.. and recalculated.


Material belongings are replacable.. lives are not.

Besides, the $15 shack in India vs. the $100,000 HUD housing in the USA in my opinion isn't a fair comparison. Compare number of homes destroyed.. then you'd get a much closer comparison.

[culookn]

last time i checked i didnt think hurricanes were racist. but that must be our fault that it went in the direction that it did.

[zeppelin]

yeah i was talking about meterial things i thought that damage ment loss of meterial things, but now you are talking lives, i called that devistation, it may seem kind of morbid, but the people that died dont really care they arent alive any more 'cause their dead, but the people they left behind are depressed or devistated. sorry if i come across really harsh or anything but i just wanted to clear up what i was talking about earlier, in which case if you are talking about "devistation" then yes the tsunami was much worse :(

[wilkin250r]

As they pull more bodies, they are finding an alarming amount that died by gunshot wounds rather than drowning.

[Warnerade]

Originally posted by zeppelin
yeah i was talking about meterial things i thought that damage ment loss of meterial things, but now you are talking lives, i called that devistation, it may seem kind of morbid, but the people that died dont really care they arent alive any more 'cause their dead, but the people they left behind are depressed or devistated. sorry if i come across really harsh or anything but i just wanted to clear up what i was talking about earlier, in which case if you are talking about "devistation" then yes the tsunami was much worse :( regardless, the people in new orleans had plenty of warning time....india didnt.

tsunami's and hurricanes, just shouldnt even be compared

and wilkin...thats very sad, but 100% true im sure, which is terrible.

[AtvMxRider]

Originally posted by MXcutie
Been sitting here with my *** in a wad, wanting to speak out about the
bull**** going on in New Orleans.

For the people of New Orleans... First we would like to say, Sorry for
your loss.

With that said, Let's go through a few hurricane rules: (Unlike an
earthquake, we know it's coming)

#1. A mandatory evacuation means just that... Get the hell out. Don't
blame the
Government after they tell you to go. If they hadn't said anything, I
can see
the argument. They said get out... if you didn't, it's your fault, not
theirs.
(We don't want to hear it, even if you don't have a car, you can get
out.)

#2. If there is an emergency, stock up on water and non-perishables. If
you
didn't do this, it's not the governments fault you're starving.

#2a. If you run out of food and water, find a store that has some.
(Remember,
shoes, TV's, DVD's and CD's are not edible. Leave them alone.)

#2b. If the local store is too looted of food or water, leave your
neighbor's TV
and stereo alone. (See # 2a) They worked hard to get their stuff. Just
because
they were smart enough to leave during a mandatory evacuation, doesn't
give you
the right to take their stuff... it's theirs, not yours.

#3. If someone comes in to help you, don't shoot at them and then
complain no
one is helping you. I'm not getting shot to help save some dumbass who
didn't
leave when told to do so.

#4. If you are in your house that is completely under water, your
belongings are
probably too far gone for anyone to want them. If someone does want
them, Let
them have them and hopefully they'll die in the filth. Just leave! (For
goodness sakes, it's New Orleans, find a voodoo warrior and put a curse
on
them)

#5. My tax money should not pay to rebuild a 2 million dollar house, a
sports
stadium or a floating casino. Also, my tax money shouldn't go to rebuild
a city
that is under sea level. You wouldn't build your house on quicksand
would you?
You want to live below sea-level, do your country some good and join the
Navy.

#6. Regardless what the Poverty Pimps Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton
want you to
believe, The US Government didn't create the Hurricane as a way to
eradicate
the black people of New Orleans; (Neither did Russia as a way to destroy
America). The US Government didn't cause global warming that caused the
hurricane (We've been coming out of an ice age for over a million
years).

#7. The government isn't responsible for giving you anything. This is
the land
of the free and the home of the brave, but you gotta work for what you
want.
McDonalds and Wal-Mart are always hiring, get a damn job and stop
spooning off
the people who are actually working for a living.



Well said;)

[stocktires]

I'm so glad everyone here's is an expert on Katrina because you watch the 9 o'clock news. Probably half, if not more of what you all said is wrong. Although I doubt I'm going to argue becuase it's pointless.

[AtvMxRider]

Originally posted by stocktires
I'm so glad everyone here's is an expert on Katrina because you watch the 9 o'clock news. Probably half, if not more of what you all said is wrong. Although I doubt I'm going to argue becuase it's pointless.

[fasterblaster09]

^^^ Thank you.Just because 1/20 people are complaining dont mean the other's arent grateful.Actually I beleive the ones who dont have to deal with it are complaining more than the one who were hit.And the reason most of them were stranded is because after the hurricane was ove,and everything was ok,they went back home.Then the levee broke and they were stuck.And yes many were just plain ignorant.Im pretty sure the ,majority of yall,no us,we all would complain if we didnt leave and we were stuck there.Well im done...

[bayou boy]

i read this on another site...it pretty much explains it.
Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State

An Objectivist Review

by Robert Tracinski | The Intellectual Activist

September 2, 2005



It has taken four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. I can't blame them, because it has also taken me four long days to figure out what is going on there. The reason is that the events there make no sense if you think that we are confronting a natural disaster.
If this is just a natural disaster, the response for public officials is obvious: you bring in food, water, and doctors; you send transportation to evacuate refugees to temporary shelters; you send engineers to stop the flooding and rebuild the city's infrastructure. For journalists, natural disasters also have a familiar pattern: the heroism of ordinary people pulling together to survive; the hard work and dedication of doctors, nurses, and rescue workers; the steps being taken to clean up and rebuild.
Public officials did not expect that the first thing they would have to do is to send thousands of armed troops in armored vehicle, as if they are suppressing an enemy insurgency. And journalists--myself included--did not expect that the story would not be about rain, wind, and flooding, but about rape, murder, and looting.
But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster.
The man-made disaster is not an inadequate or incompetent response by federal relief agencies, and it was not directly caused by Hurricane Katrina. This is where just about every newspaper and television channel has gotten the story wrong.
The man-made disaster we are now witnessing in New Orleans did not happen over the past four days. It happened over the past four decades. Hurricane Katrina merely exposed it to public view.
The man-made disaster is the welfare state.
For the past few days, I have found the news from New Orleans to be confusing. People were not behaving as you would expect them to behave in an emergency--indeed, they were not behaving as they have behaved in other emergencies. That is what has shocked so many people: they have been saying that this is not what we expect from America. In fact, it is not even what we expect from a Third World country.
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. This is especially true in America. We are an enterprising people, used to relying on our own initiative rather than waiting around for the government to take care of us. I have seen this a hundred times, in small examples (a small town whose main traffic light had gone out, causing ordinary citizens to get out of their cars and serve as impromptu traffic cops, directing cars through the intersection) and large ones (the spontaneous response of New Yorkers to September 11).
So what explains the chaos in New Orleans?
To give you an idea of the magnitude of what is going on, here is a description from a Washington Times story:

"Storm victims are raped and beaten; fights erupt with flying fists, knives and guns; fires are breaking out; corpses litter the streets; and police and rescue helicopters are repeatedly fired on.
"The plea from Mayor C. Ray Nagin came even as National Guardsmen poured in to restore order and stop the looting, carjackings and gunfire....
"Last night, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said 300 Iraq-hardened Arkansas National Guard members were inside New Orleans with shoot-to-kill orders.
"'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.' "
The reference to Iraq is eerie. The photo that accompanies this article shows National Guard troops, with rifles and armored vests, riding on an armored vehicle through trash-strewn streets lined by a rabble of squalid, listless people, one of whom appears to be yelling at them. It looks exactly like a scene from Sadr City in Baghdad.
What explains bands of thugs using a natural disaster as an excuse for an orgy of looting, armed robbery, and rape? What causes unruly mobs to storm the very buses that have arrived to evacuate them, causing the drivers to drive away, frightened for their lives? What causes people to attack the doctors trying to treat patients at the Super Dome?
Why are people responding to natural destruction by causing further destruction? Why are they attacking the people who are trying to help them?
My wife, Sherri, figured it out first, and she figured it out on a sense-of-life level. While watching the coverage last night on Fox News Channel, she told me that she was getting a familiar feeling. She studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Chicago, which is located in the South Side of Chicago just blocks away from the Robert Taylor Homes, one of the largest high-rise public housing projects in America. "The projects," as they were known, were infamous for uncontrollable crime and irremediable squalor. (They have since, mercifully, been demolished.)

What Sherri was getting from last night's television coverage was a whiff of the sense of life of "the projects." Then the "crawl"--the informational phrases flashed at the bottom of the screen on most news channels--gave some vital statistics to confirm this sense: 75% of the residents of New Orleans had already evacuated before the hurricane, and of the 300,000 or so who remained, a large number were from the city's public housing projects. Jack Wakeland then gave me an additional, crucial fact: early reports from CNN and Fox indicated that the city had no plan for evacuating all of the prisoners in the city's jails--so they just let many of them loose. There is no doubt a significant overlap between these two populations--that is, a large number of people in the jails used to live in the housing projects, and vice versa.
There were many decent, innocent people trapped in New Orleans when the deluge hit--but they were trapped alongside large numbers of people from two groups: criminals--and wards of the welfare state, people selected, over decades, for their lack of initiative and self-induced helplessness. The welfare wards were a mass of sheep--on whom the incompetent administration of New Orleans unleashed a pack of wolves.
All of this is related, incidentally, to the apparent incompetence of the city government, which failed to plan for a total evacuation of the city, despite the knowledge that this might be necessary. But in a city corrupted by the welfare state, the job of city officials is to ensure the flow of handouts to welfare recipients and patronage to political supporters--not to ensure a lawful, orderly evacuation in case of emergency.
No one has really reported this story, as far as I can tell. In fact, some are already actively distorting it, blaming President Bush, for example, for failing to personally ensure that the Mayor of New Orleans had drafted an adequate evacuation plan. The worst example is an execrable piece from the Toronto Globe and Mail, by a supercilious Canadian who blames the chaos on American "individualism." But the truth is precisely the opposite: the chaos was caused by a system that was the exact opposite of individualism.

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. They don't use the chaos of a disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow men.
But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about saving their houses and property? They don't, because they don't own anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen to their businesses or how they are going to make a living? They never worried about those things before. Do they worry about crime and looting? But living off of stolen wealth is a way of life for them.
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.



Source: TIA Daily -- September 2, 2005

[zeppelin]

omg i have always wanted to say that but i could never really get it out in the convincing way that guy did, i agree 110%

[400ex28]

Originally posted by zeppelin
omg i have always wanted to say that but i could never really get it out in the convincing way that guy did, i agree 110.1% :

[Warnerade]

Originally posted by zeppelin
omg i have always wanted to say that but i could never really get it out in the convincing way that guy did, i agree 110% then you had a very odd way of trying to say it.