The recent Hurricaine Irene reminds me of Hurricaine Katrina and how people react to pending natural disasters. Do they evacuate? Do they rebuild? What happens to the people?
In New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, the grasses grow taller than people and street after street is scarred by empty decaying houses, Most buildings are shuttered, "For Sale" signs stuck on their sides. There aren't many buyers. And the businesses that are open are mostly corner stores where folks buy pricey cigarettes, liquor and packaged food. This is the face of liberalism and generational welfare. The Left likes to point fingers at greedy Republicans for this misery. The real villain is the insidious entitlement mentality fostered by 50 years of big government misguided generosity. If logic and reason were to prevail, no attempts nor money would be spent to rebuild this below-sea-level city where the next big hurricane will flood it yet again. Better to bulldoze it, fire all Democrat politicians and relocate New Orleans to higher ground. And instead of welcoming back all the former residents, scatter them around to conservative areas where they just might, as the result of osmosis, absorb better values. When thousands of children of welfare see no proper role models, they adopt the culture they see. It is a vicious circle.
No comments:
Post a Comment