Topic: A must read for Americans

bulldogg · November 3rd, 2006

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Here are a few lessons learned from Katrina:

1. Don't depend on government to meet your needs, learn to paddle your own canoe. Imbued with a sense of self-reliance, free people are more likely to positively respond to a crisis than those who consistently suckle at the breast of nanny government. This is not to denigrate the positive influence that free government can have within the milieu of a liberty based society but in a liberty based society, everyone knows how to paddle their own canoe.

2. When faced with an emotional crisis, even the most "conservative" neo-conservative will sound more like a socialist, i.e., a liberal, than they will sound like a traditional conservative. Newt Gingrich offers a classic example of a neo-conservative selling out his "limited government" mantra for liberal big government ideas when faced with emotional images on T.V. Promoting the expenditure of billions of dollars of Federal funds, placing large parts of three States into Federal reconstruction districts and doing away the posse comitatus act, Gingrich sounds more like Hilary Clinton than a real conservative.

3. Anytime a race related issue causes neo-conservatives any embarrassment, they find Southerners useful as a scapegoat. After many days of looting and violence in New Orleans President Bush dutifully noted that the lawlessness was a legacy of "racial injustice." If the looters are not responsible for the lawlessness, who is responsible? The inference in Bush's remarks is that if it is not the looters' fault for the violence down South then it must be the arch villain in America, Bubba and his cohorts. According to the manager of the New Orleans Wal-Mart, the only thing not looted in his downtown store was the Country Music CD's. You see, Bubba was busy "paddling his own canoe" and didn't have time to do any looting; yet, it is the South, the hard working, conservative voting South that is, by inference, held up to the world as the villain for race problems in America.

4. Until we place quality for voters on the same level as quantity of voters, we will continue to elect officials with the lowest common denominator of the voters. When the tax consumers out vote the taxpayers both the property and the liberty of the minority is held hostage by the tax-consuming majority. It shocking when one considers that more knowledge has to be demonstrated earning the privilege of driving a car, getting a hunting license or cutting someone's hair than it takes to qualify to vote. Why should someone who is a convicted felon be allowed to vote? Why should someone living on government subsides be allowed to vote? Why should someone who files bankruptcy be allowed to vote? In all of these cases the individual has proven he is not responsible enough to manage his own affairs. Being unable to manage one's own affairs should not be a qualification for running the affairs of state.

From Louisiana my suggestion for all Americans is to keep paddling your own canoe but learn the lesson of Katrina.

http://www.kennedytwins.com/canoe.htm

Point four is the most provocative and profound and the most intelligent reflection on the American body politic in my adult lifetime. I know the reasons why the problem exists... the victim mentallity touted by the hippies of my parents generation... but I say its time to remove the deadweight from the process. If you are not a responsible productive member of society you should not have the privilege of voting and let us be perfectly clear on this point. The founding fathers based voting on the ownership of land, they believed that voting was a privilege and NOT a right. Its time to restore order and clean up the toilet. The louder the whinging shiftless lazy welfare hounds cry the more you know you're on the right track.