Am I the only one that sees a complete lack of self-sufficiency concerning the Katrina event in New Orleans? I am a bit baffled at the way this is being covered. I mean if Helen Keller can learn how to speak, read, and write, a group of black people can figure out how to move out of a city in two full days.
Furthermore (not to be too blunt) what kind of idiot shows up at a shelter without 3-5 days of food and water for everybody you are with? Just using regular household containers, you could come up with a large supply of water, not to mention these people had plenty of time to make a (cheap but full of needy things) trip to the store.
Who stays in a city with a category 5 hurricane. Is having sympathy for people who failed to follow the Boy Scout Motto "Be Prepared" the right thing to do. If every one of these people would have owned a rifle (and known how to use it), brought food and water to the Superdome (or gotten out of the city like a sane person would have done), and had a survival attitude rather than a handout attitude, MOST of this problem would have been solved. In fact, they really didn't even need a rifle. Food, water, and a will to survive and adapt and improvise a way out would have sufficed.
The elderly, children, and the disabled certainly needed help. But, for the most part I saw nothing but able bodied people doing nothing to help themselves during this whole event. Screaming "we want help, we want help!" Come on, they obviously carried their regular lifestyle out and sat around and did nothing but wait for government assistance.
All of these liberals are saying "If this had been a white city it wouldn't have been like this." IF THIS HAD BEEN A WHITE CITY 99.9% OF THE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE LEFT.
Being poor is no excuse for not leaving. The reasons they didn't leave (except for the old, very young, and disabled) was because they were some combination of unprepared, lazy, and stupid.
Should we really be rewarding stupidity with sympathy?
