The “Shut up, white boy!” woman is the “slum” dweller with a 60-inch TV
Mixed in with the rent-a-rioters who stormed the New Orleans City Council meeting over public housing were a few homegrown thugs who refuse to be weaned from the public teat without a finger-pointing, racial epithet-hurling fight.
Case in point: That angry lady in the BDS shirt shouting “I will not be treated like a slave!” and “Back up and Shut up! Shut up, white boy! Shut up, white boy!” at a citizen attending the council hearing. Watch closely and note that there is a child behind her being subjected to her diatribe against the man. She’s your tax dollars at work:
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Nice propaganda job by the photo caption writer, who whitewashed the angry racist rant. They were just, you know, “talking to” a man…at the top of their lungs:
So, does she look familiar? This Sharon Jasper is the same Sharon Jasper profiled in the New Orleans Times-Picayune sulking in her government-subsidized apartment with hardwood floors and HUGEtastic flat-screen television and complaining that it’s a “slum:”
Jasper moaned:
Sharon Jasper, a former St. Bernard complex resident presented by activists Tuesday as a victim of changing public housing policies, took a moment before the start of the City Hall protest to complain about her subsidized private apartment, which she called a “slum.” A HANO voucher covers her rent on a unit in an old Faubourg St. John home, but she said she faced several hundred dollars in deposit charges and now faces a steep utility bill.
Heaven forbid The Man expect her to pay her own damned security deposits and utility bills like the rest of us!
Sell the behemoth TV, for crying out loud.
More:
“I’m tired of the slum landlords, and I’m tired of the slum houses,” she said.
Pointing across the street to an encampment of homeless people at Duncan Plaza, Jasper said, “I might do better out here with one of these tents.”
Jasper, who later allowed a photographer to tour the subsidized apartment, also complained about missing window screens, a slow leak in a sink, a warped back door and a few other details of a residence that otherwise appeared to have been recently renovated.
Well, if “slums” come with TVs the size of my car, where can I sign up?
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I’d ask the reporter who toured Jasper’s government-subsidized apartment if he saw what kind of car(s) she had (any SUVs? Suburbans? huge pick-up trucks?)–but then I’d be accused of, you know, “stalking.”
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Go to The Mighty Favog’s blog here and here for great takedowns of this monstrous ingrate. More blogger reax here . And more from Rod Dreher.
Beth at My VWRC points out that Jasper “isn’t just some random ‘victim’ picked off the streets by activists. She IS an activist herself, according to none other than the New Orleans Labor Media Project, which is very much a part of the protests.”
Jasper is fighting back. She spearheads a tenant association that is working with the AFL-CIO’s Gulf Coast Revitalization Program to convince local authorities to rehabilitate rather than annihilate public housing stock.
“We, the poor working class, are the people who helped build this city,” Jasper says, jabbing her finger into the air, as if she were about to pull down the menacing barbed wire barrier. “We have a right to return.”
“Working?” Laura at Pursuing Holiness notes that Jasper has admitted to being on the dole for 57 out of her 58 years.
“Right to return?” Taxpayers have a right to tell their government to return their hard-earned money being squandered by race-hustling grievance-mongers like the loud-mouthed TV lady. She should turn her jabbing finger towards herself and follow her own advice:
Shut up.
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Louisiana’s GOP Governor-elect Bobby Jindal takes office Jan. 14. And not a minute too soon.
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I do not have a college degree, and I made close to six figures a year. I am a trained medical professional at that. You do not need a college degree to work. What you need is the ability to get your a&& out of bed and out of the slum in the morning and to work. that is what you need.
But why would you want to do that? If you have a check coming every month that allows you to live in a manner that you have grown accostomed to and that allows you to buy things like big screen HDTV’s and side-by-side refrigerators, rent-free housing and the like, where is the motivation to work? You have none. All you need to do is sit around, drinking Kool Aide and getting fat watching stories and becoming an activist to make sure the Government gives you more and more of what they owe you for the gift you are giving them of being alive. After all, you are the most important person in the worls and to hell with the rest of the worls. And also, working constitutes slavery, and I’ll thank you not to bring up the over 400 yuears of that painful part of her heritage. Whitey owes her this reparation. Consider all these things as payment for things she herself never had to endure.
Well, what is the politically correct word to describe this lovely lady?
Ingrate
This just turns my stomache. Who is really oppressed and who is really haveing a hard time? Is it not more by choice that some people live the way they do. God I wish I had been given a $2000.00 do not have to pay back credit card. That the government was going to come in and rebuild my apartment and refurbish it for me.
They have rebuilt Mississippi, and Alabama, and most of Louisianna, but when it comes down to New Orleans we have to fight over who is going to get the bigger hand out.
I think New Orleans should be scrapped. I for One am sick and tired of listening to them bitch and moan about thier self imposed poverished way of life. With all the money that has been handed to these people (thats the governemnt of New Orleans) to rebuild and better themselves , yet nothing has been accopmlished. Well I can go on and on it is just sickening
You got it AJ.
At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of Edinborough) had this to say about “The Fall of The Athenian Republic” some 2,000 years prior.
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From Bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”
Wade #100 maybe you should be running for office.
Wade, I think that is why James Madison warned of us the impending danger of attempting to create a democracy out of our Constitutional Republic in Federalist Paper Number Ten. Unfortunately, when Lincoln began the centralization of power with our federal system we started down a slope from which we have never recovered.
For those that think there are no poor people in the USA I invite you to take a tour of the Appalachian Mountains where I grew up in Southern West Virginia. When you see people still living today with no electric, no running water and struggling for the bare necessities, perhaps you will reconsider that thought. As for living in a third-world country for a while, I lived in Mexico for three years and have lived in the Philippines since 2004. While there is major poverty in both of those locations, that does not change my history or the fact that I did grow up poor in every sense of the word. Fortunately, in West Virginia, if you want to suck the socialist teat you must work for the state road department if you are able-bodied. That being said …
What would be wrong putting these welfare recipients to work? State training? They could build our prisons (Poetic justice?) build schools, work in binderies making real text books rather than “PC” drivel. Surely some of them could be found to take care of children. What is so wrong about allowing people to earn what they receive? If you want to go to college, the state pays and you go to work for the state for a time after graduating. Well, if they could still get an actual education rather than being indoctrinated further into the Marxist Utopian nightmare I suppose it would help.
It is my saddest thought that I may live to see the end of the “Greatest experiment of all” which IS the US of A.
Dude, certainly there are people who are ‘poorer than’ other people. But by your definition, there were no wealthy people before electricity or running water. My mother and father both used outhouses for periods of time when they were growing up.
I assure you that many people in Cape Town, South Africa would LOVE the opportunity to live in the Appalachian Mountains and in Southern West Virginia. They would think that they died and went to heaven – though you consider it to be depraved poverty.
People in America have OPPORTUNITY. People in West Virginia also get government assistance that is not available in most countries – though they may have to work.
I think the issue is with the concept of what constitutes ‘poor’.
I used to supervise a crew of retired black gents working part time on a loading dock. These guys were rock solid, with a great work ethic even in their early to mid 60’s. And they absolutely despised the welfare/entitlement mentality and the damage it had wrought to a certain segment of the community. They had family members affected by it and it was deeply personal for them. Self-reliance was like an earthly religion to them, as it is for me. They are the black ’silent majority’.
Problem solved, send her to Gaza.
Lawless victims. Hmm, where have I seen that before? It NEVER ends, does it?
rick, is rightwingnuthouse down? not connecting……
Since we have politicians that have, in fact, spit in the eye of the middle class
voters and have said by their actions, that what we think and what we thought we
put them in office to do is absolutely unimportant because they have more important people to think of and to kowtow to. It’s the uberliberals, the illegal
aliens and the welfare queens that get their attention. One sure way to stop this
is to keep voting out the pols that ignore us, especially the ones that want to give
this ingrate more “entitlements” and want to give amnesty to illegals.
‘Nuff said.
Government dependency = slavery
now it’s working…..
I hope the new gov can clean that place up.
Raising a child while having that mentality is child abuse.
It was cleaned up once. Why does man have such a ego as to rebuild a city below sea level?
Wow!
If I call our remodeled house a slum, can I get my Uncle Sam to replace my 27″ TV?
Sheeeesh. That woman has never been in a slum. I would love for her to take a trip with me some time. I will show her a slum and then, we will see if she can open her vile mouth ever again.
My mother was a coal-miners daughter from Kentucky thank you very much. I didn’t say there were no poor people here. It’s just like what ThackerAgency said above:
Please permit us our rage at this ungrateful parasite. Rage works for them. Perhaps it will work for the rest of us as well. Maybe the 60-inch TV was a gift, or was purchased at a rental center — whatever — but it is a powerful symbol of how we have defined poverty down in this nation. Notice, too, the hardwood floors, the kitchen cabinetry; this isn’t a picture of poverty. And that whining, vicious racist in the picture didn’t pay FOR ANY OF IT. If she’s an anomaly, fine, perhaps we should back off. But I think maybe, just maybe, there are others like her, and it pisses me off. You know what makes people work and pay their own way? Necesssity. These folks need a lot less of my money and whole lot more necessity. And they also need a little shame. And some gratitude. Give
‘em some lead time, then cut ‘em loose. I think we’d all be amazed as hell how fast most of them find gainful employment. And I think we’d also be pretty amazed by the size of TVs they buy/rent/give as gifts when it’s purchased with money they’ve worked for.
Gee, you guys seem so upset… It’s not like she is on the dole in NYC, I mean really, this poor woman probably doesn’t even have her own parking space.
And she probably doesn’t get enough food stamps anyway. Really have you seen the price of shrimp these days! And speaking of food stamps, you get like what, 70 cents on the Dollar for them… those poor kids will have to drink domestic malt liquor for breakfast.
And don’t get me started on health care! Damn! I bet they make her share her ride to the free clinic with someone she barley knows! I mean it could be anyone…do you know how damaging it is to a child to meet their farther for the the first time on the way to planned parenthood!
In a society as AFFLUENT as ours, this is a disgrace!
I am Hillary Clinton & I approve of this message.
I retired in 05 after 40 years. Guess I should have kept working so Ms. Jasper could have a dwelling worthy of her.
Working Poor? Nay. Non-working, complaining, lazy poor like her. On the dole 57 of her 58 years? People like her will never be satisfied and always be “poor”.
She was never taught to work for a living.
Dave from Flint above. I also retired in 05 or 06 depending on how you count it after working continuously since 1965. That would be 40 or 41 years x 4 = 160/164 quarters for social security purposes. Some people like her were given full SS payments with only 12 quarters during the 1970s. That was finally raised to 40 sometime in the 1980s. The unions in the area also want the work, but at the “prevailing wage” of union contracts made in Washington, D. C. I wonder what they think of illegal aliens taking their jobs now!
I hope some of this outrage is getting back to her, and that it makes her think twice about what she has thanks to the compassion of others, however I get the impression she is far too self-involved in her role as a victim to see beyond her 60inch TV.
Just wish some responsible politicians would carry this banner on, but unfortunately there’s so many people like this woman, that no politician will take it on as it will cost them too many votes.
90% of that video was playin the role for the cameras, the reverend playing the nut case whacko reverend! the doo rag rag tv rage lady, playing the slave! tazer boy, playing more than he bargained for! the counsel, playing dumb! special appearance by the white boy! one thing is for certain, whoever is teaching english in that city should be fired. I heard the soap operas are looking for actors.
She might have received a 60 inch HDTV as a gift? Just who is this person that is going around handing out 3000-7000 dollar television sets to slum residents as gifts? i would like to meet this uber-generous philanthropist and find out how I can submit his name for the next Nobel Peace Prize, for obviously he deserves it far more than Algore did. I think we all know how she got it from her own words of how she likes to live nicely, have better things, had a side-by-side etc. I think we all know what a ingrate, thankless racist she is. She is the type of person who, if she was begging on the street and you gave her a twenty, she would look at you and say, “That’s all? You mean you ain’t got no hundreds in there? Why, cause I’m black? Come on, White boy, give me more!” We have all seen the type before, and to say otherwise is either being dishonest or showing that you have not spent much time in a major metropolitan area.
My wife and I went to Mardi Gras in 2005, and while I spent a great deal of time in the streets, it was still an eye opener for me, and for her…well let us just say she had never felt so ethnocentric in her life. She went expecting great music and fun times, and what she got was the cultural awakening of her life. Especially the shooting/murder that happened exactly one block away while we were standing/watching the Bacchus parade.
As for the comment about people not thinking there are poor people in this country, I was not aware that anyone had made such a comment. Of coursee there are poor people. I myself grew up in a single parent family where my mother had to work three jobs to raise her three sons. We hardly ever saw her, and when we did..it wasn’t pretty. We got our toys and cloths from Purple Heart and Goodwill stores and garage sales, and the milk we drank was reconstituted powdered milk. If you have not had the honor of drinking that stuff, you don’t know the hell you are missing. When I finally moved away from home, the first thing I purchased was the biggest box of Frosted Flakes and a gallon of whole milk. It was HEAVEN. So believe me when I tell you, I know what poor is. Sure, I may have gone to a Jesuit high school, but I did so on a scholorship where the Bishop of the Dioscese paid for me and I worked it off for so many hours a year.
I beat every odd there was. According to the Liberals, I came from a broken home where I was physically abused pretty horribly. I was WAY below the poverty level where the meals consisted on rice and tuna and boxed macaroni and cheese more often than any other item. By all their models I should be a drug addict, an alcoholic, a high school drop out who beats his wife and children on a daily basis and a convicted felon who is in and out of prison more times than not. I should have a prison and criminal record as long as the Mississippi river and should also be voting Democrat as well as be a person that is begging for every little entitlement that I can get my hands on.
After all, isn’t that what all the Liberal models tell us? Isn’t that what this Grimace look-a-like is trying to sell us?
And not just me, but my two brothers as well. One older and one younger.
Well, they were all wrong. Every last Liberal is wrong. Hill-Dawg and the rest of the Democratic candidates are wrong and lie when they tell people that if you come from that kind of background you are doomed and you need them and all their hand-outs.
I worked in the entertainment field for 20 years as well as became a Firefighter/Paramedic until a horrible work injury crippled me and I was forced into retirement. While I am sidelined now and stuck at home, I am only here because the Department and the State are slow and screwing around. I am awaiting the retraining grant so that I can head back to school so I can retrain to become a Respiratory therapist. Sure, i could do what my Liberal friends keep telling me to do and sit on my a$$ for the rest of my life and suck a free check, but I have what is known as a work ethic and I need to work to feel alive. Plus, i still get that check…and the check for working. It is called MORE MONEY.
My little brother became a CHP officer. Kinda the opposite of becoming a drug addict and drunk too wouldn’t you say?
My older brother? While he had it a little rougher, he is a business owner and a caterer. Self-made.
So you see…all you need is a work ethic and a drive. you need to believe in yourself, not in the Democrats and the Liberals and their handouts. That will get you nowhere but stagnant.
to use the Bible…which they hate because it always proves them to be in the wrong…all one need do is to look at the parable of the talents. Did you do something with your talents? Or did you just bury yours hoping to keep it safe? Me? i want to make mine grow and grow and grow. If I break it, well then I had fun breaking it, but I never would have broken it without using it in the first place and nobody can be faulted for trying.
Reading stories like this make me wonder why the heck I (and other members of my family) worked our butts off to get educated so we could haul our sorry carcasses out of poverty and be able to earn a decent wage. Why did I bother to get all my kids through college if all they needed to do was sit in government-subsidized housing and whine?
I’d be embarrassed not to make my own way with the gifts God has given me. Shame on her.
I just got back from my niece’s college graduation…her father (my brother) disappeared from her life when she and her brother were very small. Their mother, God bless her, worked hard to raise her kids to be self-reliant, decent citizens. She succeeded, and today was celebration of that.
People like Jasper make me sick.
Self-centered people that are as selfish and inconsiderate and racist as she is would never in a million years be so insightful as to look inside herself and see that she has done or said anything wrong. If she feels anything towards anyone at all in this matter, it is more rage and hatred at the whites and the government for mocking her and making fun of her. SHe is more than likely walking up and down her “slum” or her “ghetto” raving like a ;lunatic about how callous whitey has been and “how dare they” not see how run down and slum like her living conditions are. You gotta understand, she just plain is too selfish and lost in her own world of greed and selfishness and does not think as a regular human being does, so you cannot try to understand her.
I was going to make a comment, until I read this:
Nothing more for me to say, its already done.
Really makes you think twice about donating to charities or towards the next disaster, doesn’t it?
What do you think will happen the next time a hurricane strikes N.O.? Do you guys think that the people of this country will be antwhere near as generous or as courteous when at every turn, the people and administration of that city has insulted and acted as ungrateful as anyone has ever acted in the history of this country? After the population of this country heard about the looting of bikes, tv’s, stereos and such while being told it was “life saving provisions, the cops bailed, the buses sat there while the mayor fiddled and blamed Bush, the people spent the FEMA money on strip clubs, cigarettes and booze etc., will this nation forgive, forget and rescue them again, donate their hard earned money and food, open their towns and homes?
Or do you guys think this country has had enough of over two years of their whining, excuses, blaming, mismanagement and general nonsense and say, “To hell with you, we heard this before, and you have no one to bblame but yourselves this time?”
Yeah, I do tend to keep my posts short and concise, you know, to the point. ;->
To answer RetFireman #127, it all depends who is in power. If it’s the Dems, then you can bet that they can’t wait to throw more money down this bottomless hole and then pat themselves on the back and tell everyone what good morally upstanding citizens they are. As for me, forget it – lesson learned, thank you very much. The ones who will suffer of course are the ones who legitimately need the support in the short term, and have no intention of abusing it.
RetFireman,
My Mom also worked 3 jobs to care for me & my sister after my Dad left us. She is 92, & worked everyday of her life from the time she was 13, up until 2 years ago when she broke her hip. She was a volunteer at the local Church Thrift Shop after she retired. Yeah, she beat the sht outta me, but Now i care for her 24/7, as well as my own career.
She feels guilty sometimes. I tell her Mama, you never left us w/out a roof over our heads, clothing & good food, & you were always generous w/ your money when we needed it. You earned my care!
nyc123me ??? another conservitive in nyc??? I am knocking on the wall, can you hear me?
LOL that was you? Damn, I was about to call 311 hehe!
and yeah, I’m in Brooklyn too – Ocean Parkway.
Ft. Green in da house!
Careful ColdFront…they may come after us to shut us up. If word gets out that you do not need Democrats and all their hand outs to get out of poverty and that actually the Rapublican and Conservative way of life is what works then they will lose everything. They will stop at nothing so keep an eye out, watch your back.
Oh look! someone just slipped a book of food stamps under my door… ohhh and some wic checks too, awwww I am a man, the best I can hope for is 50 cent on the dollah… well maybe some lotto tickets too. Phat!
I can remember when anyone with the least bit of gumption would work multiple jobs and save green stamps and clip coupons and return pop bottles
for the deposit instead of going on welfare. It was a definite no-no, no matter
how poor you were to live off of the government.
Now, everybody and their dogs are getting on the dole and think nothing of it.
In fact, in the states where you can only collect for so long before you have to go to work, there is a regular exodus from those states to others where they can
live a while longer without having to go to work, then, they move to another
state……… This is going on all across the country. Of course, there are the gang
members in Ft Worth that have the baby mama move into section 8 housing and then the lowdown gang member will move in with her. There was an entire apartment complex that had to be cleaned out. There may have been more, but I only remember one. So, now, we have gang bangers living off of us.
I’m just surprised that the Reverends haven’t shown up to make the “white boy” apologize to Jasper for enraging her by being in her line of sight. (Just
think what would have happened if that had been a white woman who said,
“shut up black boy?” Yeow!
First time commenter here. Luv ya Michelle!
No surprise here. When you raise your children in an atmosphere of hate don’t be surprised when they end up becoming exactly what they say they are against. This is not rocket science, just human nature. Yes I am negotiating uncharted waters here, shhhhh, don’t speak about the racism endemic in certain alcoves of our society, if you do, you might be a racist. Up is down, right is left, night is day, carry on. It is only a matter of time before every American sees through this, just let them keep talking, idiots always dig their own graves (always have always will), that’s one thing I like about them.
Oh Rose, HA HA HA! Next you will want equal protection under the law… it’s the wat it is.
way it is… sorry.
As MLK said, Red, “I have a dream!”
They are all part of that secret guvment institution, the Department Of Unemployed Grifting Hucksters, or, DOUGH! for short.
Listen, I can fully appreciate the frustration people feel when they look at Sharon Jasper and think “There goes my tax (or charity) dollars.” But we’re NOTall like that. Most of us are just like you, but with better jambalaya.
TXRose…OMG S&H green stamps….& the redemption book that went w/ them….& the appliances you could get!
RetFireman… A whole lot more is dying besides the Music ‘Industry’ & the MSM. We are in a revolution that is going to see this country returned to sanity, or perish. I might be wrong, but i think this lifestyle, & its elected enablers are going extinct.
it’s that culture-evolution thing.
I wonder when we as a people are going to take this country back. I don’t care how you look at this, it is crap.If we really new how much waste there really was…… Someone said if that was a white woman saying shut up black boy there would be hell to pay, and there in lies the problem. The people who think this is wrong white or black need to raise hell.
Of course you are not. Anymore than all Russians were Stalinists, all Germans were Nazis, all Americans were slave owners. Only fools judge all by the actions of some. I will guarantee that if the crap hit the fan the people I would raise to defend America would be multicolored not because I decided that that should be the way it is, but because people know a winner when they see or hear one, We will whip the asses of anyone who dares get in our way. Want to test my theory? Go ahead, make my day. I have family who in the civil war were on the North as well as the South, a Southern Cross recipient on one side, he lost, hold it, we won. Yep, we all won so that should tell you that even when we lose we win! Step up and be dispatched, all enemies of America I dare you.
…no fun bein’ one ‘less yo’ axts like one.
Questions. 1) Whatever happened to welfare reform? I thought lifetime welfare payments were limited to a certain number of years. What gives?
2) Was there anyone in this country with any degree of influence, whether a politician, media person or blogger, who opposed the rebuilding of New Orleans? I drew a diagram on the board for my students showing a cross section through Louisiana. I showed the land sloping gently down to meet the waves of the Gulf. Right before the edge of the land and the beginning of the waves I drew a deep indentation in the land in the shape of a cup, with the waves of the Gulf lapping at the edge of the cup. I asked them if we should build a city at the bottom of the cup, with the Atlantic Ocean looming overhead. Yet our great prez went down and promised to reverse the course of nature. Had Gore won in 2000, there would have been no difference. Put New Orleans out of its misery and close it down for good.
My Mother was widowed at 32 and left with 6 children to raise by herself. The
oldest was 10, the youngest, 2. Luckily we lived where we could raise a lot o
our food and we had livestock. Mother was an RN and fortunately, could support us
fairly well as long as we had our cows, chickens, and garden. Unfortunately, she
had anger problems and still does, but I won’t go into that. We all turned out
well and are living productive lives. It took some doing, but whatever needed
doing, we did even when it meant not going on dates because we were working
part-time jobs.
If I told someone like Jasper this story she would probably tell me that my Mother was a fool for working when she could have sat at home on welfare.
As I said before, we all would have preferred to be dead because that was the
thinking at the time and still is in our family.
The main thing we all learned from this was, you don’t sit on your rear expecting the government (or anyone else) to take care of you. You get up and go to work even if it’s flipping burgers. You work!
I am starting to become outraged that deserving Americans have been ripped off by these, what should I call them, leeches? Unacceptable! I demand change and I will write my congressmam (Campbell) and he will listen, otherwise I and others will toss him out, wont have to worry about that, he is honorable. Hey, wa’d ya expect from California… moonbats? Please! Don’t be fooled by the mmm, anyone who believes what they say is dumber than a rock. Hunter for President, ok, VP the only true conservative American patriot in the lot. Thompson with a Hunter backup, just in case!
Did you notice Goldilock’s Teeshirt? Pictures of the Bush Administration with the caption “wanted for mass murder.” What hath our welfare system wrought?
Don’t confuse “on the dole” with welfare, meaning cash payouts. I have no idea, obviously, specifically what governmental benefits Jasper gets. The ‘96 welfare reforms are a completely separate issue, and dealt mostly with the cash payouts, overall eligibility, and the food stamp system.
My opinion (which along with a few bucks will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks) is that she’s also getting other benefits besides housing. But I have no way of knowing that for sure. Regardless, I used the term “on the dole” deliberately because she’s NOT self-supporting if she has gubmint housing.
As far as the rebuilding of New Orleans – that’s a complicated issue, far beyond a simple bowl analogy. My home is above sea level and so are many neighborhoods. Furthermore, as the home to the busiest port in the world, the second largest fishery, and an integral part of the petrochemical industry, New Orleans is a critical part of this nation’s economy. Quite a lot of the population has moved north and west of the city limits, which is excellent. A lot of neighborhoods aren’t going to come back, nor should they. But the entire city will not be abandoned, nor should it be.
To be clear –
in addition to housing benefits, which she admits receiving since she was 6 months old.
If that TV is high def, it’s wasted on her. She’s way too close to the screen to truly appreciate the glory of high definition.
Hey I live near the coast in California and people have been saying for decades (much longer than New Orleans) that we are going to fall into the Pacific (totally retarded thinking). I demand some gubment assistance, retroactively! I have been watching the ocean for fifty years, it aint changing, erosion, sure, pollution, more than 30 years ago, tides rising… no.
I may be remembering what I read, wrong, but it seems that there were
barrier islands that protected NO when hurricanes headed that way. It also
seems that I remember that a lot of these barrier islands have been done away
with because of all of the dredging to allow the oil companies to use bigger and bigger equipment to move their product.
TX Rose, we’ve lost a lot of coast for various reasons, mostly previous storm erosion. As it happens, we are the only state which doesn’t receive 50% of the oil revenues drilled off our shores, so we’ve actually been putting billions of dollars into the federal coffer since the Eisenhower administration. Most other states use that money for coastal restoration or to mitigate other industrial/environmental damage. Frankly, I don’t know whether our previous politicians could have been trusted to spend the money wisely, but it’s a moot point. A lot’s changed since Katrina, including getting a good governor elected. I’m actually quite hopeful for the future, and my family is working our a@@es off to be part of the solution.
LauraC….
Good for you and your family. I think that what NO needs is a lot of people that
will work for the good of the city despite the mayor. I don’t know what is going
on with him but it seems he wanted that job so badly that he left the Republican
party to become a Democrat. I guess he thought he could only get elected that
way but from what I saw, pre Katrina and post Katrina, neither he nor Gov Blanco
impressed me at all, especially when they got into a spitting contest over who
would get the most “face” time as Katrina was moving in.
And that’s a perfect reason to drill off California, we have tons of oil and gas and ? The waters now are too polluted to swim in close to shore, not from oil, from drains, cities drains mostly. Lets drill and then we will have the money to fix LauraC’s jetty’s once and for all.
Actually, believe it or not, Nagin was the reform candidate, and before Katrina, did a decent job of fighting corruption. That’s why he got re-elected, instead of Lt. Gov Mitch Landrieu (part of the political machine known as the Cajun Kennedys). Of course, Nagin has completely lost his mind, but I’d still rather have him than Landrieu. In any event, I live in the ‘burbs now so I didn’t vote in that election. Louisiana politics can be a bit perplexing if you don’t know the back stories. It was a struggle to get Jindal in, but I think at the end of 8 years of Jindal ethics reform (see, I’m an optimist!) it’ll be easier to attract better candidates for office.
Was just listening to local Fox News because we’ve had weather moving in and was reminded that “low income” families can get their electricity payments subsidized by certain agencies. How had I forgotten about that?
I don’t know if that is what is going on in NO but wouldn’t be surprised if
that is how a certain person with a gi-normous tv set is paying her bill. I
know, I am rather cynical at times…but not all of the time. I have to be very
careful when I am counseling or I wind up empathizing to the point where I
become ineffectual.
#18 ajmontana said:
Maybe topped off just a “little” more with a bag of pork rinds and a “Free Michael Vick” tee-shirt.
This is what welfare and dependency on the government breed – an entitlement attitude. The idea that we are all entitled to the American Dream of having lots of nice “stuff”. The American Dream is about people working hard and making a living for themselves – not expecting the government to give it to them while they do nothing! Our poor in this country have a/c, heat, Playstations and cable TV. Yet they also want their welfare check to help them get it, instead of going out and getting it on their own. It comes down to materialism, greed and laziness.
When I was growing up and my family was living below the poverty level (whatever it was in the 80s) and our tiny house had no central air, we had no cable tv and bought all our clothes from Wal Mart or my grandmother sewed them. We ate a lot of Spam and hot dogs. We grew our own vegetables in the summer. My parents never considered welfare. We didn’t have much, but we worked together as a family and were happy.
But people insist happiness is found only in nice cars, fancy houses and all the stuff they can put inside the house. Too bad they haven’t realized that all that will go away and that there is more to life than just big screen TVs!
To Rick (and Michelle): Your general warning from comment #79 is taken specifically by me. I apologize to both of you and to Michelle’s readers for my rant which, thinking back on it, rightly caused Rick’s “itchy finger” to delete my comment. I deserved to be banned for saying those things on your forum. As I find myself still able to comment now, I am grateful for the second chance and intend to use it more wisely.
I will ask this… having been away from the news most of the day, has Sharon Jasper responded in any way to the attention that Michelle’s blog has brought? As vocal as she has proven herself to be, I’d think she’d be screaming for the opportunity to offer a sound rebuttal to lament the labeling and beg for help, presswise and legally. At the risk of inviting trouble, I don’t see any updates, though; where is she?
#157 jenmom said:
I think you are so right. This is less about perceived poverty (read the other posters who detail what real poverty looks like in other countries) and more about perceived unhappiness through materialism. If I was constantly pumped with cable shows about high school drop-outs “pimpin’ their cribs” and “pimpin’ their rides,” I’d be unhappy with my 60″ plasma and my free housing too.
However, if I compared my existence with many others living “middle-class” lives around the world, I’d be thinking to myself, “Damn, I’m lucky as hell to be living in the United States of America.”
LauraC, I am going to take you to task on the Jambalaya comment. I happen to be a Jambalaya fiend. One of the things I was just DYING for when I visited Nawlins was real, honest to goodness Jambalaya from it’s very womb. I think Zatarans is good, but my buddy’s mom’s, (the one that is no longer with us) is by far the best ever tasted.
Well, i must have tried Jambalaya at every place I could. While there is just no beating the brunch at Branigan’s (I think that was the name) and there is also no beating Cafe’ Du Monde, especially late at night, I could not find a decent bowl/plate of jambalaya anywhere in that entire city.
Imagine my surprise when our tour guide of the cemeteries, a 5th generation Nawliner, who told us, and remember, this was February of 2005, that if a hurricane ever hit Nawlins that due to it being so low and the fact the City was so corrupt and had no real plan and that the parrishes couldn’t ever get together on an evacuation order amongst other things, that the City would be completely destroyed, that the best Jambalaya, and the one that most natives eat is…you guessed it…Zatarrans.
So unless you know something that a 5th generationer and I, after searching that city high and low, doesn’t know about the Jambalaya there, I will take umbrance with that claim and stick with my late best friend’s mom’s Jambalaya’s recipe thank you very much.
The next time this woman jumps up and unsolicitously yells, “I ain’t no slave,”, someone else should respond back with, “We know, because then you would be WORKING!”
oh dear Lord I am so sorry for that horrible joke and for all the starving pandas in China….
Or would be within 10 minutes…
There is a cure for poverty—–it is called a JOB.Get one.
Racit. She ain’t no slave.
Sorry, racist
Veering off the conversation of this woman:
I caught the news clip on YouTube that showed the protesters getting pepper sprayed. Naturally, you had one of the talking heads interviewing the guy who got the full blast of it on his face after he recovered.
He was talking about how he was a citizen of New Orleans who had the right to go to this meeting and how he got “brutalized” by the police.
Kind of hard to hear how you got brutalized when you are upright and able to talk. I’ve been hit by pepper spray as part of a chemical weapons class. You know what I learned from it? When a cop points the pepper spray at you, take the hint, do what he says, and make “sir” a big part of your vocabulary.
My husband used to work in Newark, NJ as an electrician. He went into apartments in “poor” neighborhoods all the time that had big screen TV’s.
I used to take back roads home from work through not so nice sections of East Orange in my 5 year old Neon. Many of the cars I passed parked on the street were MUCH more expensive models that my Neon (which was my first brand new car – all my cars prior to that were used hatchbacks)
Unfortunately there are people in this Country that will take whatever the govt will give them (except a kick in the butt)
Sure I want a chicken in every pot, but the govt shouldn’t be putting it there.
I say load the lady and her other thugs on a plane and fly them to Zimbabwe. Mugabe and her ought to get along great. He can “give her” a piece of one of the white man’s farms he has been stealing all over the country. Of course she won’t have any food to feed her rotund girth nor a 60″ TV to watch. She will be forced to march against whitey oppressing Zimbabwe!
I’m a little confused as to how this posting could not be expected to trigger racist comments.
Perhaps it’s because we’re expected to understand that race does not determine a person attitudes or their actions. Enough bad examples of personal conduct and wrong-headed attitudes can be found in any race to condemn that race if you want to use the broad brush way of thinking.
For example, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin, Ted Kennedy, and Chuck Schumer have all displayed behavior and attitudes which I find highly disagreeable. I could notice that all these people are caucasian and use that to believe that white people in general aren’t worth a crap. But I know better than that. It is not their race which makes them such pinheads, it is their way of looking at things.
A person should be judged individually by their actions and the way they carry themselves. There may be societal influences that need to be changed, but condemning a race of people for the actions of some its members is not clear thinking.
Well said backwoods conservative.
derel, are you saying that there should be no negative postings of bad behavior of people of certain races because of possible negative reactions? Which race or races is it ok in your mind to post negative things about?
Someone please inform Ms.Jasper that it was her own ‘African folk’ who sold her relatives into slavery. It was the muslims who did the bulk of the Trading, & STILL DO! It was WHITE Northerners who died to liberate Slaves in America, & who helped them set up the underground railroad. Only 5% of the Slave trade ended up in America. & finally, America is the only nation to ever go to Civil War to abolish Slavery.
Dear Ms. Jasper, this is also a good read.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/009139.php
WORK IS FOR SLAVES!
My point is that I find it disingenuous to post racially charged images and text and then feign incredulity when people respond with racially charged commentary.
Clinton knew what he was doing when he went after Sista Souljah; as Jesse Helms knew what he was doing when he used the “white hand” advertisements; as George Bush knew what he was doing when he aired the Willie Horton ads.
These images are deliberate efforts to inflame racial passions, once inflamed, the person responsible for presenting the image needs to be honest about their intent.
This woman created her own image, and was playing it up for the cameras just as the others were in the video. it was an out of control circus and she was looking for the “dont tase me bro” soundbite. The entire event was poor theatrics at best.
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Holy Carp! stop the presses!!
Rep. King is on FOX talking about his endorsement for FRED! geez, about time, what 3-4 days before it gets any play?
Tancredo people coming out for Fred Thompson as well he states… whoooo hooooo…
I’m a great believer individual responsibility. The protesters in the video chose to express themselves in an obnoxious and racist manner. I do not.
This woman is a wretched ingrate. Rather than complain about her free housing, she should be thanking everyone of us who pay taxes because we are the ones supporting her.
This is just one example. Imagine the thousands – the millions – of people who are being handed all they want for FREE, paid for by hard working middle class workers via the government’s “convenient” payroll deduction.
And that excuses it how? If you can’t afford the necessities of life, you shouldn’t be splurging on luxuries(with my tax dollars most likely), no matter how you’re financing it.
There is another possibility though. She may have gotten during the looting of New Orleans, seeing as how big screen tvs are necessary during hurricanes and all.
Hail & Blessed be the Hour & Moment
in which the Son of God was Born
of the Most Pure Virgin Mary at Midnight
in Bethlehem
In piercing Cold…
in poverty, wrapped in swaddling cloth
in a Manger surrounded by Animals
because there was
NO ROOM @ the INN!
Alleluia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNnRovyUJ_M