I have had a few conversations with friends about this topic…I didn’t write about it because it seemed a bit insensitive…but I have seen other blogs comment on this, including my friend poison pero…so I will throw my two cents in.
It seems that the government has made a whole sub-class of people who are unable to care for themselves in any capacity.
Even under times of prosperity and good fortune, there are neighborhoods and generations of families who have no ability to function on their own. I am not talking about the person who lost their job and needs a little help…or someone who’s divorced and trying to raise kids on their own. I’m talking about people who, on day one, were already indoctrinated with the idea that the government will do everything for them; therefore they do not have to do anything that a normal human being needs to do for survival.
There are many in this country who believes it is their God-given right to be provided with everything. I teach in Milwaukee, the children believe they are suppose to be given all their supplies, bus passes, free food and they also expect to do no work.
Do some of the kids need the help….Yes….
Do some of them get free food, free transportation and free books, yet still have money for cell phones, nice clothes and $200 shoes….yes.
When you ask them to buy a supply for class, they always answer with..”You are supposed to give me that.”
The government has taken away a large segment of the populations will to survive. Their human spirit has been taken away simply by the government giving them the bare necessities to survive. It is a damn shame.
The real problem is that the left believes that these people can not function as normal human beings…a few examples…
- Old people and minorities can not be expected to have ID’s to vote. They should be saying…why can’t you get an ID, it is needed to be a functioning person in society…instead they say, how dare you ask these people to have proof of who they are.
- People can not be expected to supply the basic needs of human life…many people spend no money on food, water, utilities, transportation or schooling….they believe the government should give them these things, so they can spend the money on cell phones, nice clothes and shoes.
- A healthy, young human being is incapable of leaving a city. I’m sorry, but except for the sick and elderly, anyone could have left. Many didn’t leave because they have no experience on how to take care of themselves. Since the government didn’t have free busses out, they felt they were not given the opportunity to leave.
- There is no reason ANYONE in the United States can not have the skills to earn a livable wage. This is where people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson make me sick. Even if inner city public schools are not up to par…many of the kids that go there feel they do not have to work at anything. They have no skills…can’t read, write, communicate or get a job. They are provided free school and good teachers, yet feel that the message Jackson gives…”you are oppressed, you can not make it in America” means that they should just give up.
Maybe that is why there were so many people raping, stealing TV’s, and shooting soldiers….they take no pride in themselves or their surroundings because they have no ownership in ANYTHING.
The point here is that all the programs, all the handouts that the left thinks is helping, is actually creating a large amount of people that can not survive on their own. Unless they are forced to think they are suppose to function as normal human being who are suppose to take care of themselves, they never will.
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I presume you are talking about Paris and Nikki Hilton here, right?
Regarding point number 3.
Dear sir,
My name is John Smith. I am married with two young children. My wife's elderly mother is sickly and lives with us.
I had a decent job working as a dockworker at the port of New Orleans. I made enough money to make payments on my own home, feed my wife and kids, and take care of my mother-in-law. I don't have a car because insurance costs too much, gas costs too much, and I can get to work by bus. We can walk to church and the grocery store.
A lot of us in our neighborhood are in the same situation. Doing OK, barely, but working hard to get by. We don't get any money from the government, just what I make at the docks.
When hurricane Katrina was headed for New Orleans and the mayor said to get ourselves out of here, I looked in the garage for the car I don't have. Then I looked at the bus schedule for the buses that weren't running, and that I didn't have money for 5 bus fares for, and then I called the Holiday Inn up in Baton Rouge that was all booked up and I had no money for anyway. I told them we'd be willing to share a room if they had a courtesy van to pick us up and would let us stay for a few months for the twenty dollars I had in my pocket. That $20 is going to have to last a long time because I don't think I'm going to be able to work if the hurricane floods the city.
So exactly how the f**k am I supposed to evacuate myself and my wife, kids, and mother-in-law? Walk a hundred miles in the storm through the night with everyone tied together with a rope and flashlights? And where the f**k am I supposed to stay once I get to Baton Rouge? I don't have any relatives there and nobody set up any shelters there for a hundred thousand people.
So please, the next time it occurs to you that I puposely didn't heed the warnings of the approaching storm and chose to ignore the evacuation orders, why don't you take your elitist head out of you big honky ass before you evacuate yourself.
Sincerely,
John Smith
you ignored the main point of the post....and as for not being able to leave...if the governor and mayor would have done what it says to do in their evacuation plan...everyone could have left..
also, let me know how your job or volunteer work puts you in contact with people like this...you can make up fictional people that do not exist...and I'll name thousands that i see every year who fit my description...
was john smith the guy who shot at the soldier or the guy who was running down the street with the big screen TV
jim just gave an emotional response...that is how liberal thoughts are created...make an emotional, heart warming pitch...void of thinking...void of trying to deal with the issue at hand...
I couldn't have said it better, Game......Well maybe I did.....LOL!
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And worrying about being insensitive means you are falling to the pressure of PC........Speak your mind, my friend. You have much to say, and say it well.
i hope you don't think I stole your idea...you just gave me a little bit of encouragement to state what I have been thinking...but I did give you credit for that...
I know what your point is. Put I could make exactly the same point about a sub-class of people on the other side of the wealth spectrum. And that's what I'm trying to point out.
Sorry, I just don't get it. My letter was simply a way of expressing that not every member of the lower class is ignorant, irresponsible, a thief, a shooter, or black.
"John Smith" has (had) a decent job, owned his own home, cared for his family, and went to church on Sunday's. Is he not up to your standards because he's not a database manager for IBM? What is it in your mindset that given the above, he must be either a sniper or a thief?
Look, there are people who game the system, who expect hand outs, who cheat, and only care about what the government can do for them, and live off the government dole. Some of them are black and poor. Some of them are white and rich and can afford to set up offshore tax shelters or are farmers who insist on subsidies for their goods, or cheat their employees and shareholders, or buy politicians to get tax credits while making record profits. And maybe the marketing and sales people at Nike, Reebok, and Nokia should start buying the lunches and pencils. I don't see them having any trouble with marketing to the "sub-class" to spend money on their products instead of basic needs.
Is it fair to paint every person in one population segment with the same brush? On either side? I honestly am not one to call people elitist or racist. But I wonder sometimes when people assume that there are few if any honest, earnest, hard-working people in the lower classes, what that says about their mindset. It would be similar if I assumed that anybody who makes over $200,000 a year cheated to get it and cheats to keep on getting it.
Either of these is a bad assumption.
I have no clue as to what the letter to Mom is trying to convey. I guess there is too much sarcasm and I can't tell what you really mean to say. Are you saying that if people are poor, it's their own fault or their parent's fault? Their are no poor people of any value? There are no God-fearing, caring, trying, honest, hard-working people who are poor? Or just the white ones? If you are poor you will steal? If you are poor you will shoot? If you are poor and smart, you should get yourself transferred to a better school in the upper class neighborhood so that you can get the education you want to get you into U of O or Tulane? How would that work?
Because what I'm reading here is that poor people have no worth, no values, no motivation. They are in the circumstances they are in because they don't want to be better and their parents didn't teach them to want to be better. All of them. Every last one of them. No "there but for the grace of God"?
OK, let's let them drown or starve. They don't care, obviously, to improve their lives. Better yet, nuke 'em. Let's just put them out of their misery. That would be the "Christian" thing to do.
If this is too sissy liberal for you, too impassioned, then I will not waste my time speaking on this subject here any longer. What's the point?
still missing the point...not all poor people..but whomever fits in this "helpless society" not one color, not simply the lower class...but the reason for the whole post was to point out that there is a class of people who can not function as viable, productive human beings, or even survive as human beings are supposed to.
Thank you for visiting my site. I am glad to see others feel the same.
I to wrote it not at everyone, but for those that take advantage, or have been taught how to take advantage of the system.
Jim sounds like a hardworking guy. However, because of the sheer number of people who use the government as their security blanket, John was not able to get the help that was really needed.
The plan and leadership of the Mayor and Governor was a joke, really still is. President Bush declared a state of emergency two days before landfall so that the states of Louisiana and Mississippi could prepare and get their citizens to safety. Then again, I guess they are government too.
Good post, I will check back again.
yeah....another regular I hope....lets step up people
I'm not missing any point. It is perfectly clear whom you are talking about in your post. You are not describing white kids in St. Paul.
The culture of poverty created by the welfare system has been a scourge on our country.
It was well-intentioned, but it didn't work. It was a mistake. Rather than aid people, it created generations of dependents.
We have created a culture of helplessness. This lifestyle of government hand-outs has stripped people of their dignity. We need to empower people. That empowerment can only come by assuming responsibility for one's self.
As soon as one looks for excuses and expects to be taken care of by the government, that person has lost all hope of self-determination.
I'm all for temporary assistance. I just don't think dependence on welfare should be handed down from generation to generation like a family business.
The poor have truly been victimized by Democrats and the soft bigotry of low expectations.
As far as the evacuation goes, the mayor and governor failed the poor of New Orleans. They allowed them to be flooded in not only by failing to bus them out; but also by failing to give them opportunities to control the direction of their lives.
Damn Mary...I think I am in love with you.
Lowered expectations and constant excuses are creating a class of people who have no ability or want to take care of themselves.
They don't have to be black...but it is black leaders who are the ones throwing out the race card, and giving their people the crutch they need to blame everyone but themselves.
If there was a way to give everyone a push...then say, "Okay, make a life for yourself" that would be great.
But too many people know they are not expected to do anything, so they never will.
And the fact that the left does not expect them to ever be responsible human beings, while at the same time giving them just enough free stuff to keep them voting for them, will continue the cycle of learned helplessness.
Just to bring up a fact for jim..75% of people below the poverty line are white...
a bigger percentage of blacks are below the poverty line, but since most poor people are white...we are not just talking about whites.
We are talking about anyone who fits in the category of learned helplessness...anyone who relies solely on the government and the plethora of excuses given to them for why they can not work hard and make it on their own.
Scorpion says--
I FINALLY saw a statement here that Jim added to the conversation that I can totally agree with him about. One sentence in a post says "I just don't get it." This sentence is obviously intelligent and very well written.Certainly accurate.
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