rakkasan said:
… After people lost their homes they just went to the next house to help the fight. No whining, no screaming at the government, no looking for payouts.
…. Just hard work.

Contrasted against post Katrina New Orleans, people on welfare don’t know the meaning of ‘hard work’ or why to help themselves out of trouble let alone why to help someone else. Welfare is the most ugly social experiment ever perpetrated upon US citizens. The claws of its evil grip have so deeply impaled poor inner city black people with a culture of dependency that they are as unable to experience any satisfaction in giving charity to another person as much as they are unable to be thankful for receiving it. What liberals have done with welfare is worse than slavery because slaves had the dream of FREEDOM; they suffered slavery but, for that dream, did not allow it to break their souls. They had the hope that someday their children and grandchildren would be blessed by God and be free. Most people on welfare have no hope at all because there is no dream. They have been broken; broken by liberalism.

On June 16th, 2008 at 10:50 am, Boomer said:

… you will never hear them demand a hand-out like the professional victim class like those in New Orleans that have yet to get up off their lazy butts and rebuild.

Well said. I live in a city outside New Orleans and the news is daily filled with different stories about people caught up in situations where the Gov’t hand-outs are coming to an end and “what are we expected to do now?” or “who is gonna do it for us?” seem to be the only things they know how to say.

It’s been almost 3 years! If you haven’t started working on your house by now, what do you expect?

Of course there are some stories about people doing it themselves (oddly, it’s usually elderly or even disabled folks) and someone calls the TV station hotline to get these poor people some help.

Help usually floods in right after the broadcast.

Note to others waiting for someone to do it for them: Maybe you could start!!!

I too live outside of NOLA and I agree with you 100%. It’s just sad that most will get the perception that all Louisianians are the same but I know differently. I saw so many of our neighbors putting their lives on the line and using their own boats to help those who should have left and didn’t. Many of the volunteers had their weopons taken from them and still went into that hell hole to help. Thousands of us volunteered in shelters for weeks. Too bad you didn’t see much of that in the media. Our small community always takes care of our neighbors. Even when they may not deserve our help.

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Someone commented about Iowa’s voting record. Western Iowa is culturally, politically and climatologically more like Nebraska than the rest of Iowa. Until this year, most Democratic candidates hardly bothered to visit our side of the state. We tend to vote Republican, and Steve King is our representative.

A FEMA rep has been wandering about Nebraska and Iowa since the damaging storms began over three weeks ago. He had good words to say about heartlanders.

Free speech can be rough, but its still free speech.

These stories are why I love Americans. Great people…

Now THAT’S funny!

“The local and state governments in Iowa are probably a bit more efficient than in NOLA.”

Even better.

This one is a no brainer. No perpetual victims + no racist mayor in charge = Pride and passion…

No Sean Penn. No Dixie Chicks. Just hard work.

That’s because there aren’t enough democrat constituents on welfare in Iowa.

I guess that depends on how you define “enough.” My sister used to fill out welfare paperwork for folks in Des Moines too stupid or lazy to fill it out for themselves.

But the people getting themselves back on track will take care of their neighbors, too, without their intellectual betters pleading for other people’s money (without contributing a dime of their own, of course).

And the bit about the Iowa National Guard being understaffed because of the war is BS. My brother’s in the Guard and hasn’t been activated yet because they enough people on the ground already. He sounded disappointed.

From Boortz:

… How the residents of Cedar Rapids, Des Moines and other cities in Iowa haven’t been waiting around for George Bush to rescue them from the flood waters….

But seriously, Paul Green, not all is hunk dory in Cedar rapids? Really? I’m shocked.