Thoughts on Disasters and People
1. You are responsible for you. Get your crap together and shut your pie hole. I am sad that so many people are acting like they and they alone are suffering. Remember, you are NOT an endangered species. According to the leftwing enviro-wackos you are just part of the “infestation”. If you agree with the lefties then you have bigger problems then a damned hurricane.
2. Unless you have a contract saying otherwise, the government does not owe you a damn thing. Appreciate as much or as little you get. There is someone somewhere paying for that or donating that. There are people who have put their personal life on hold to get it to you. Show some gratitude. If they have done more then you have to help you then you have bigger problems then a damn hurricane.
3. Disaster Relief is just that. Relief. It is not a $2,000 or a $20,000 handout. It is not an entitlement to improving your life to a better standard of living then what you had before the disaster. It’s not even a entitlement to get you back to where you were. YOU have to do something. If you made your 26-year-old mother a grandmother, twice, then your life is always going to suck. So will your offspring. If you are a crack addict, a felon, etc, then your life will always suck. Unless YOU make some changes you have a problem bigger then a hurricane.
4. The next time you hear the word “Hurricane” on tv or radio PAY ATTENTION! Every weather person in the nation was talking for 5 days about these. On tv they show a picture with projections on where these storms were going to hit. Here is a clue, IF you live between the two outer lines you need to start getting ready. That means first and foremost, GET A FULL TANK OF GAS. Call your cousin in Birmingham, Memphis, St Louis, and Chicago and ask if they can put you up for a few days.
5. Try to be the first one out. There are more options when you are the first to evacuate. You have some control. Last one gets hind tit, whatever and whenever. No options. You owe it to your kids. If you don’t understand this then your kids have a bigger problem then a hurricane.
6. This is a good point to insert this. Don’t gamble! At best It’s only your life. At worst it’s the lives of your children. The mayor of New Orleans gambled that folks would be in the Superdome and Civic Center for only a few hours and then they would go home. That’s why he didn’t let the Red Cross set up and stock those shelters. That’s why he didn’t use the school buses. He was more concerned with possible criticism (over money spent) had he used those assets and the storm was a flop like so many before. He lost that bet. If you can’t learn from other people’s mistakes then you have bigger problems then a hurricane.
7. Elect reasonable adults to run your local and state governments. Stop looking at elections from the “what’s in it for me”. See number 1 above. Do not accept corruption.
8. Afterwards take care of yourselves and your community. Get off your ass and help. Be part of the solution. If you are in a shelter, volunteer to help out on the food line. No one is there to serve your every need even though they will try. Remember this…
The response will be coming from the outside. They will tend to what they find as they find it. They will prioritize. They have too. Response assets are not unlimited. IF you are in the middle of the effected area don’t be so childish to expect help before those further out from the center. It’s just not possible. Remember number 1 above.
9. RACE. We all have one. They are assigned at birth. We have no control over it. Look at the people that made this a racial thing. How do they make their living? Look at the majority of the people doing the rescuing. Now look at the majority of people getting rescued. Look at whose extending help and relief. Do you see the ACLU? NAACP? LULAC? NO!! Figure it out on your own. (Here’s a hint) Look at the second half of number 3 above. Then get over it.
10. Economic advantages and economic warfare. (AKA Class envy) Here is a fact of life. People who work hard, get an education, don’t have children before they can afford them, avoid addictions, develop good work ethics, follow rule number 1 above, WILL be better off the those that don’t. Examples? Bill Gates, Walter Williams, Michelle Malkins, Thomas Sowell.
Granted there are those who are members of the “golden sperm club”, born into money. Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, for example. And there are the guilty rich. Made a lot of money and feel guilty about it. Look at the Hollywood “A” list for example. But in this country those four suggestions will get you ahead. If you don’t believe it, try it and prove me wrong.