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Originally posted by CamB
Jeff - this isn't really a fair comparison. Your starting point is:
a) liberals are vote sucking mongrels who buy votes with welfare
b) conservatives want what is right (even if it loses votes?).
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Cam, of course we both know it's never that cut and dried. Both sides honestly believe what they are doing is right. My post was a vast over-simplification of just a very small part of the problem, and admitedly meant to be just a wee bit inflamatory.
We have had multi-generational welfare in our country; it sounds like you might have some of that in your country as well. I find it interesting the catagories left out of your welfare statistics. That's an age-old trick of politicians, but a rose is a rose by any other name... Anyway, in America, we are making no headway in weaning our welfare population from this lifestyle. The images being broadcast to the world from New Orleans serve to highlight the problems encountered when this class of people are asked, in a life-threatening emergency, to dig in and show some strength of character. They simply cannot. They have never been asked to in their entire lives. Remember all the stuff you though really sucked as a kid, the stuff that your folks told you "built character"? I'm not sure these folks even have those experiences to draw upon, or the moral guidance to tell them what they mean.
The point I was trying to make concerning all of this is that we have tried one approach for longer than my lifetime. For several generations. That approach is the coddling; the free ride championed by the left. It is showing no signs of working. How long do we give it? When do we try another approach? Most folks have to learn to work for things; our innate nature is to take the easy path. I think the "tough love" approach may be the next to try. Make them start earning their way; stop the handouts. Maybe after such a national "character building" exercise, we won't see any more New Orleans-esque behaviour in another disaster.