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radioouman
Diamond Member
sick
IHateMyJob2004
Lifer
IHateMyJob2004
Lifer
I'm only the messenger
treemonkey
Senior member
If you die in a hurricane in 2005 it's your own fault, not the government's.
NikPreviousAcct
No Lifer
bingoooooo
eyecandy86
Senior member
I don't think that was even remotely funny..😕
Googer
Lifer
Bush is not responsible for the Actions of Local Authorities who are the one who make sure evacuations are done and it is the State of Loisiana that is incharge of releasing the national guard for relief efforts. As a Florida Resident I know this all too well, we do not call on the president when disaster strikes our neighborhoods; instead we rely on on ourselves First, our neighbors second, our local first responders third, then when we really are hell in high water we ask our governor for help (Florida National Guard), and last we call on our president.
In previous Hurricanes (Andrew comes to mind), President Clinton did not order evacutations and nor was he supposed to. Evacuations are the Responsibiltiy of the Local Sheriff/Police/Fire Department and The state Governors office. If there is any failure to blame for lack of warning it is them (state and local) who make sholder part of the blame. If you choose to stay benind like many did in New Orleans then it is entirely your fault, so you have no one to blame but your self; It's Not the Presidents Fault.
Some say that the President should have relaesed the Army but could not since they were tied up in Iraq. To them I say stop politicising a moment of disaster and human suffering; you are ignorant and dumb, It is not the duity of the Preisident or the US Armed forces to handle situations like this. It is strictly prohibited by law as stated in the Constition of the United States of America for the Army or any Branch to engage in activites with in the borders of the USA. That is the Job of the States National Guard and the US Military is forbidden on acting in such manner. This is not the moment to make a political statement just because you are opossed to a war in Iraq. You just look for any excuse to bash bush even when he is not responsible. Pityful. (I Voted for Gore 🙂)
(TRUE) Many of the people in New Orleans Did not want to leave their Homes for fear of loosing their wefare checks, but instead they lost their lives or family memebers. Welfare breeds greed, lazyness, and lack of self responsibility.
An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the 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.
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