Hurricane Victims vrs Hurricane survivors.

There is a HUGE difference .

Published on September 12, 2005 By Moderateman In US Domestic

While the aftermath of hurricane Katrina is still be played out I was struck by several things.

The people that whine and cry and demand things are the victims in this scenario.

While the people in exactly the same boat, showing gratitude for just being alive, vowing to pull themselves up by the bootstraps if necessary are the survivors

I have helped and would be more than willing to help the survivors, but am totally disgusted with the victims.

I blame the dividers for making these victims play the role of victim that they play so damn well.

The only difference between the victims and survivors are simple. Attitude and gratitude.

The survivors are the best hope for the future ofr New Orleans, give them shelter and they will rebuild.

The victims are a waste of resources and a huge drag on the spirit of the american people. let em die the world and america will be better off without them.

Where as the survivors have my utmost respect and admiration.

Comments

Dr Guy

on Sep 12, 2005

The Victims are also victims of the liberal mindset that nothing is your fault. It is always someone else's.

foreverserenity

on Sep 12, 2005

Pretty insightful Elie.

Moderateman

on Sep 12, 2005

1 by Dr. Guy
Monday, September 12, 2005

The Victims are also victims of the liberal mindset that nothing is your fault. It is always someone else's.

exactly doc.

Moderateman

on Sep 12, 2005

#2 by foreverserenity
Monday, September 12, 2005

Pretty insightful Elie.

well thankya darlin.

Island Dog

on Sep 12, 2005

The Victims are also victims of the liberal mindset that nothing is your fault. It is always someone else's.

It's Bush's fault....oh wait.

Island Dog

on Sep 12, 2005

From Rush.

On the other hand, Jeannie, you have the literal fact that more money has gone to New Orleans for levees and the Corps of Engineers in five years of the Bush administration than any time during the Clinton administration. As you pointed out, the local officials have not spent it wisely, who knows where it's gone. It hasn't gone to poverty relief because the poverty rate down there is bad. The reality is that you have a massive socialist type entitlement state in New Orleans and through a lot of Louisiana, and you look at when a disaster hits, the people are out there saying, "This is just really displaying the depths of American poverty." No, it's not. It's displaying the depths of poverty in a liberal Democrat-run community, not the depths of poverty in America. You're not seeing this, as I say, from Mississippi. You don't see stuff like this when hurricanes go through Florida. You just do not see it. So what Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin are saying is that it's not their fault, that the government didn't succeed, government didn't work, and government needs to be bigger. The left is saying this proves that government is not yet big enough.

The lesson here is something that I and other conservatives have been saying for decades, and that is that self-reliance and self-responsibility are the best things to be able to fall back on. You hear that a disaster is coming, make sure that you have the ability to get out of the way. Make sure you have the ability to move. We're talking about saving lives here. Everybody is going to suffer economic and financial losses in a disaster this size, so we're talking about saving lives. Why is it that the people who were able to get themselves out have become enemies? Why is it that, "Well, easy for them to do, but what about the poor?" What about the poor? We still haven't had the proper argument in this country about why they're poor, and the reason that we haven't is because the left believes they're poor because of the construction of this country. They think that the system of capitalism dictates that there will be haves and have-nots and therefore there is no attempt even made to help the have-nots, that capitalism is comfortable with haves and have-nots. But socialism, even though it's never worked, even though it is something that requires revolution, dictators, and walls to keep people in, even though it's never worked, the self-loathers constantly rely on the promise of socialism and the promise of equality, the good intentions of equality. "We'll make sure that there are no haves and have-nots, there are just haves." Well, when you take away entrepreneurial capitalism and free markets, and that's why socialism does, you don't have achievers. You've got people that become more and more and then totally dependent. So the argument here really is, "Is the government not big enough, or is it too big?"

Moderateman

on Sep 12, 2005

Reply By: Island DogPosted: Monday, September 12, 2005The Victims are also victims of the liberal mindset that nothing is your fault. It is always someone else's.It's Bush's fault....oh wait.

yep bushes fault, it always is, IF there is ever a democratic president, lets see if the left blames HIM when things go wrong.

Moderateman

on Sep 12, 2005

the government not big enough, or is it too big?"

well dog matters what supports the lefts views. to big when it suits them, not big enough when that suits them.

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