This was just sent to me by a very dear friend of mine, and I could not agree more with what the writer is saying. We are responsible for ourselves, and should not expect or demand that the government and by extension the rest of the tax paying citizens to bail them out. If we get off our butts and pitch in, we can live, rebuild, survive and move on faster than any govenment subsidy ever could. I could go on and on, but you read and decide
Up here, in the "Mile-Hi City", we just recovered from a Historic Event--- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions"--- with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.
FYI:
George Bush did not come.
FEMA did nothing.
No one howled for the government.
No one blamed the government.
No one even uttered an expletive on TV.
Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.
Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else.
Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.
CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5 snowstorm.
Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.
No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.
No one looted.
Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.
Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.
No Larry King, no Bill O'Rielly, no Oprah, no Chris Mathews and no Geraldo Rivera.
No Sean Penn, no Barbara Striesand, no Hollywood types to be found.
Nope, we just melted the snow for water.
Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.
The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny.
Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snowbound families.
Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.
We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns.
We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die".
We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for “sittin’ at home” checks.
Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate."
It does seem that way, at least to me.
I hope this gets passed on.
Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a living.
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Ooo are they guilty of all that?!
Absolutely positively guilty as charged
You mean the people in Denver are guilty of, gasp, personal responsibility? I thought we had weeded that out.
I agree with the point wholeheartedly, though I do question the comparisons between a snowstorm and a hurricane.
E-
Now we are going to mince hairs about what a natural disaster is, and how it impacts a community should determine the amount of media attention paid, or the response by the feds?
Bottom line, Kudo's to the folks in CO, who had their act together and were organized. Pity those fools in LA and MS, who are still digging out, waiting for more FEMA handouts and have not taken the personal responsibility for their own community.
I know you are a long time reader, so you know I sympathize with those impacted and effected by Katrina, but it is in an interesting comparison in the responses to the two natural disasters, and I am a bit pissy this moring.
Jef
Wow! I cannot imagine all that snow! But.. my hats off to the people who live there and understand the meaning of "community" Heck, if the Governemtnt had gotten involved they would have screwed it all up..The snow would be melted before they figured out whose jurisdiction the cleanup fell undr!
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