by EscapedLifer1 54 Replies latest social current
To be honest, the groups I see hanging around the streets on the news look like the ones that populate our local welfare office.That doesn't even deserve a response. You should be ashamed of yourself.
I think it does deserve a response. Maybe we need to discuss what everybody is tiptoeing around...
Well, they probably mostly are on welfare because as has already been said, anyone with any dosh at all hotfooted it out of there.
And perhaps two or three days without a change of clothes, food, water, sanitation, a decent razor, a bath or shower might make you look like you were on welfare. (it took me 24 hours to get home from Miami to Bristol due to a poor connection, and I looked like I was on welfare by the time I got home, and whats more I was so tired and frazzled I was behaving like I was on welfare too!)
I am all for personal responsibility. However, to answer your question:
Why is everyone in the mindset that people's hardships in this disaster are all the government's fault?
Because we pay them to handle these problems. When you hire/pay someone to do something, they don't do it, and you are experiencing personal dire consequences as a result, don't you have the right to be pissed off?
((((Brandon!)))))) Finally, a voice of reason and responsibility. I heartily concur, Brandon. I, myself, when I became a single woman purchased an emergency kit and keep it in my car, just in case I am ever stranded. My mom, and her mother all did the same, and always kept themselves prepared for emergency situations. So, maybe it's in the blood by now.......lol.........mom still calls me whenever she sees bad weather heading towards my area, and asks me if I've taken emergency precautions, i.e., candles, batteries, bottled water supply, canned goods, warm blankets..........and most of the time, I can say YES, I AM PREPARED!!! This is an excellent topic to bring up. Thanks!!! Terri
FHN, good points, but, I still feel Brandon made some excellent suggestions for us to review and think how can I take that and work with it? Terri
Because we pay them to handle these problems. When you hire/pay someone to do something, they don't do it, and you are experiencing personal dire consequences as a result, don't you have the right to be pissed off?
Good point!
u/d
Thanks.
I would be more than happy to retain the 30% of my income the govt takes out of my paycheck against my will and do all my own emergency prep.
Now you're talkin!
u/d
Maybe I just missed it, but did anyone else see victims of the tsunami standing around yelling demands for help?
As I watch the news reports, I see many people struggling. A lot of them are busy trying to solve the problem. Some are not able to do anything because of their condition. But there are quite a few others just standing around complaining, actually more than complaining, they are demanding. I have a hard time with that. Maybe it's just my perspective. I've been self employed for 30 years because I am independent and prefer to take care of things myself.
I think our country has a lot of great social programs, but if for some reason there are unsustainable, we may discover we have created a monster.
re: personal responsibility.
"Where is the Cavalry"??? Hubby, who is 75, said the Citizens of New Orleans are/were the "First Cavalry"!!
When the first looter was spotted, the 'good guys' (honest citizens/men and women) should have stopped the looters on the spot and beat the chit out of them. Same goes for all who witnessed 'law breaking'. The 'honest' citizens (albeit lazy/ let someone else take care of it) far outnumbered the gang/criminal element.
Too poor, dont have a car? How about going down to the hardware store Sat am and buying a kids pull wagon, a couple of water gerry cans, packing up what wil fit in the wagon and the whole family together start WALKING OUT (don't forget the umbrella for sun and rain). Someone might have picked them up, and if not, surely the cops would have got them off the causeways/expressway and to the other side.
In our little corner of WI, it seems to be the 'old timers'/over 45 yrs old that make do for themselves, thier neighbors, and 'watch each others back.' Most younger folk think everything is the responsablilty of the gov'ment, to the point of losing their own "thinking ablilty".
What part of MANDATORY EVACUATION did they not understand?
All these 'poor' no doubt had TV. Look at the projected weather maps, and start walking NW.!!!
There. That ought to kill this thread...
talley/Judy (of the thread-killer class)
