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Lyndon Bains Johnson. The father of today's Welfare State. His vision of the great soceity.
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so good I could have written it myself. The root issue is not welfare, it is personal responsibility and morality. Those that we see in the anarchy of NOLA have neither, by their own choice. This type of person has always existed. The problem is that it used to be that these sort of folk didn't last very long. They wised up, or starved, or got killed or executed. The system saw to it that they were encouraged to change or leave. Now the system not only props them up, it allows them to flourish and spread their philosophical mind rot to their offspring. Removing the welfare system is only the first step in the re-education of these folks. |
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You may be right Andy about chasing our tail. My agreement was based on the fact that social welfare combined with the PC "anything they want to do must be tolerated as thier 'culture'" mentality is issue here. The spreading culture of the American ghetto is as alien as plutonians would be to the Swiss. The slums in the US are a rot that is eating us from the inside. The proposed solution is always to increase the handouts. NOTHING AT ALL is expected or demanded in return. On and on it goes. |
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Here in parts of Arkansas the cops can't use a word for people of color; they say 'democrats'. As in "Two democrats knocked over a liquor store."
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The funiest thing is that if she wasn't so fucking stupid she could have figured out how to use the heater pack. |
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That article hit the nail right smack dab on the top of the head.
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Perfect observation....... This is the same thing I saw. Targethunter Out. |
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Please help the internet handicapped how can I email this to my pals....
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Place your cursor at the beginning of the article Right click, drag and highlight all the text (and link) that you want to copy. <CTRL - C> to copy (or go edit/copy from your menu) Open you email Start a new msg In the body of the email, <CTRL-V> to paster (or go edit/paste from the menu) |
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Their integrated culture has a lot to do with their ability to respond as civilized people in a crisis. |
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Carefull there, you might get banned for that. Too bad no one understands simple cause and effect, and accountability anymore. |
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Spot on! |
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You owe your family's success to your parents(you of course know and appreciate this). They have instilled a great sense of drive into you which you have passed down. It is a strong family with good values that has been and hopefully will continue to be the strength of this country and society. This is the foundation that carries on for generations. Nowadays the importance of the family unit has been eroded thru the media making single life and single parenting more fashionable, and the need for the family forgotten due to welfare. This is beyond a race issue. It affects everyone and it is growing like a cancer. |
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Foward letter to your "letters to the editor" of your local NP. Some small town news may just headline it.
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I agree. It used to be that being lazy or stupid also tended to be fatal. Now, with our "social safety net", a man can live an awfully long time being stupid and/or lazy. Hunger is a powerful motivator. Sometimes "progress", isn't |
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High school level assumptions and analysis. Geesh. In Switzerland it is socially unacceptable to exploit welfare programs. The USA is culturally diverse enough that similar social programs would be exploited and abused by millions of people. |
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<BINGO> A lot of people now think they are owed a living, simply for existing. |
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I've long left High School and my analysis is based on living within these European Welfare Systems. Even though me and Mrs Vito have a combined income of $70,000pa we still qualify for benefits. I get @ $700 a month back from the system. Although it is indeed socially unnacceptable to exploit the programs in Switzerland, people can and do. The 'Welfare System' in Europe is based on a the concept of giving people a 'leg up' in life, not on paying enough to survive. Because it is quite generous it stops you falling back down the ladder if life shits on you or you lose your job, and if you are at the bottom it helps you to climb up if you want to. Andy |
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I bet the refugees set up in TX won't be going back to NO. They just became Texans on welfare.
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People who govern their lives by principle will always behave properly. Because they govern themselves, they have no need to be governed.
Those without principle must be governed. When that is not there, they will no longer be restrained from doing evil. Many of the founding fathers stated in no uncertain terms that the American society they were creating had to be a MORAL society, else freedom will fail. What we are seeing in NO is just how right they were. Thus when we fail to instill moral principle into our citizens, we have already doomed our Republic to destruction. Welfare itself is but a contributing factor. It is the complete erosion of actual moral values that is responsible for the idiocy we have witnessed in NO. |
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And there we have it in a nutshell, ladies and gentlemen. |
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I don't know. I think all this mess has to do with the education level, or lack thereof, that contributed to all this anarchy.
Like another poster mentioned, in Switzerland and Germany, looting was non-existant. People were more civilized in the aftermath |
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I certainly agree with the article but, welfare state or not, the fricken city of New Orleans was built below sea level. If not for that, we wouldn't even be discussing this.
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Switzerland and Germany both have mandatory service requirements of their citizens. Matt |
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While there's some truth to Tracinski's article, I think it's very unfair to characterize the citizens of N.O. who ended up trapped inside the city as all welfare cases or criminals. I don't buy that.
I see it as simply a classic case of "Blue State" mentality. Too many folks in N.O. have bought into the Liberal philsophy that says that government will solve all problems and will immediately come to the rescue in any time of need. Unrealistic expectations have been created by this dysfunctional philosophy. Many of the people who ended up being trapped are not welfare cases nor criminals, they're just typical urban liberals. Katrina has exposed the perils of abandoning the concept of personal responsibility. |
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DING DING DING! We have a winner here! Best post I have read all week! |
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That's what we've got down there.. Distilled 'tards. |
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It appears that there was a checkpoint on the bridge and people weren't allowed past. |
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