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What a Difference Welfare Mongers Make in a Hurricane now, and years ago

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 27 September 2005
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Governments Catastrophes USA

The Difference In People... what a crying shame...

This is very interesting. How much the people’s attitude can change in 78 years?

In 1927, a major, unnamed hurricane struck the city of New Orleans.
It was actually more powerful than Katrina. The scope of damage was much more severe because this particular hurricane actually hit the city. Katrina missed it by 25 miles.

The interesting difference is the response the government gave in 1927 to those hurricane refugees, compared to the refugees of Katrina. Actually, instead of "refugees", we should the word: "survivors" ---(sorry Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson).
How much aid did the government dispense at that time? Zero, nada, not one dime. And you know how much aid the Army offered? The only aid from the Army came in the form of loaning the city of New Orleans
tents and camp stoves. Ironically, later, the Army sued the city of New Orleans for proper reimbursement. So what was the big d! ifference here?

It was the attitude the people had towards the government at that time, compared to the attitude that Katrina’s victims have. The 1927 "survivors" expected nothing from the government. 80 years ago, people understood that the government was there to protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Today, Americans expect the government to provide life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." That’s a major difference!
And now, a week later, when the Government supposedly failed on all three levels of local, state, and federal to provide for their needs, Americans were sorely disappointed.

Reverend Jackson and reverend Sharpton spend their opportunities arguing about semantics."They shouldn’t be called refugees, they should be called survivors" Unfortunately, they missed th! e boat. It was a perfect opportunity to deliver a very basic message to their people.

Fact: If you are poor and uneducated in America, this is what happens.
Fact: If you depend on the Government, you will be sorely disappointed.
Fact: if you are poor in America, there is no reason for you to be uneducated. Its free! 12 grades. And if you really apply yourself, there is enough grants and assistance out there for higher education, which will raise you above the poverty level. And no longer will you depend on the government and be disappointed. Its unfortunate that this lesson will be missed by most of the "survivors".

A couple of other points should be brought to light: President Bush has asked the Congress for 50 billion dollars worth of aid for the "survivors" and clean up of the city. Interesting isn’t it? one million people
displaced and out of work in that city, sitting all day in shelters, waiting for the next handout. Of course, the thought never occurred to anyone that just maybe, "hey, we should give all these folks jobs filling
sand bags to plug the levees and clearing trees." (Wonder how many of them would want government aid if they had to work for it?)

And finally, they haven’t hardly begun the task of picking up dead bodies, and already the finger pointing has started. The congressional hearings and probes will go forever. Millions will be spent on a wasted
diatribe of a bipartisan "witch hunting expedition"- all of which will be nonsense. If you’re a democrat, you are going to blame the president. If you are a republican, you are going to blame the mayor and the governor. This is another case in point of how the government will once again fail its people, they could have spent the
millions educating the poor and misplaced citizens of New Orleans so that they could go out and get a new and better life, instead of wasting it on useless blame investigations. AMEN!

Forum posts

  • All those grants you talk of have been slashed. Hence, the reason a disporportionate
    amount of our military is made up of under privileged, READ minorities and impoverished. In the hope to escape more poverty but now they must also escape bullets.

    Secondly, it doesn’t matter how hard you apply yourself in poor public education system, it still won’t prepare you for university level preparation. Not all US school systems are created equal and the No Child Left Behind has done nothing but impede progress and over extend an overly taxed education system.

    Past, doesn’t excuse mistakes made today. We can deliver water and assistance within twenty four hours half around the world. But it took 72 hours to even begin helping our own?

    It is not okay to blame the victim. Open your eyes to the real disaster Katarina exposed, even years after Emancipation Proclamation and 40 years since the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, Equality is still hard to come by and is an institutional.

  • How naive.

    You say that people shouldn’t rely on government. Well, FEMA was created to handle exactly this type of emergency and when it doesnt work - you can’t blame the victims. The Bush administration has touted itself as THE protector of the American people since 9/11. People trusted them. They lied. Bush brought in No Child Left Behind and the only thing it’s good for is army recruitment since the military can pilfer students’ names to call their parents aggressively to send them to Iraq because the administration won’t even fund the NCLB bill. You want to blame people for being uneducated by telling them to simply go to school. Tell that to a family in Mississippi that’s so poor it can’t afford to buy pencils and school books. You chastise the poor for not working on recovery efforts, yet Bushco has already handed out no-bid contracts to Halliburton and I don’t see you complaining about that. You seem to also have forgotten that people were not even allowed back into New Orleans until yesterday - yet you have no problem getting on your high horse and calling all poor people lazy. Shame on you.

  • What this should tell everyone, in addition to those who have responded to this post, is that you cannot rely on the government, whether it’s federal, state, local, fema, fannie, homeland security, social security, medihelp, tax breaks, military, public schools or any other type. take care of yourself and your own. stop being dependent on government! act like it doesn’t exist and you will be much better off, esp. in a time of crisis. let me say it again: THE GOVT. DOES NOT EXIST! Now, how are you going to prepare and take care of you and yours going forward. here’s a suggestion: if you live in a hurricane prone area, make sure you have enough food, water and medical supplies to last several weeks. a small boat might also be helpful if you’re planning on staying in new orleans. if you think i’m not compassionate, quite the opposite....if you listen and do what i say (and most of you reading this in a similiar circumstance will not) no matter how long it takes to put the plan and supplies together, when the next hurricane hits (and one will), you’ll be ready and your family will be safe until friends, neighbors, volunteer workers, the red cross gets to you. if you don’t listen and rely on the imaginary government, then, best case scenario, you’ll make it out eventually make it out alive. worse case scenerio, you and your family will die.
    it’s your choice.

    • you said this: if you listen and do what i say (and most of you reading this in a similiar circumstance will not)

      Pardon me? You sure make a lot of assumptions. You have absolutely no idea what I or anyone else would do. Speaking of imaginary things, perhaps you need to start imagining that you are not the only one on the planet who knows how to take care of themselves. Your approach isn’t compassionate - it’s condescending.

    • When the federal government takes 500 billion dollars out of the public coffers and gives it to FEMA for disaster relief, we should ALL expect them to do their job. Instead we have cronieism that allows incompetant "friends" to draw huge salaries and then bungle their jobs with praise and continued financial rewards from the crooks in charge...no complaint from you.

      Your racism "southerngirl" is so typical of the southerners in this country. You can always find a reason to put down and belittle black people while defending the white pigs in Washington. When are you bigoted people ever going to get over your desire to exploit others? You lost the civil war on moral grounds, give it up, your continued racism makes you look like a disgusting small minded illiterate better than thou evil devil worshiper. When I see something posted by someone who lables themselves from the south, I know before reading it that it will be some white trash moron writing it. I bet if someone tied a hundred dollar bill to a car bumper and dragged it through your trailer park you would be the first one trying to grab it.

      Never mind the fact that you don’t even have the sense to see when your government is slipping it to you.

  • "we will erase messages with caractere [sic] defamatory, abusive, xenophobe [sic], sexist, the threats [sic], political and commercial advertising. . ." Why not begin with yourself. Igorance is not always bliss. Blaming the victim is always the path of least resistance. In social science, it is call "fundamental attribution error." Try looking it up before posting seemingly historic if grieviously inaccurate recounts of how the US government handled previous disasters.