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September 24, 2005

Hurricane Katrina's Aftermath: Where Are We Headed?

This entry contains my copied comments from RappCity's post: "Nature is an Awesome Force" GW Bush

You had me right there with you JC, right up until “Especially if Mr.[President] Bush gets the Supreme Court he wants and women don't even have a "morning after" pill to take with their morning after coffee.” Although I can agree with you on most points (aside from your unquestioning certainty about global warming) I am curious about your population control philosophy. Is that really the answer? Abortion and the morning after pill? I am just trying to get you to clarify what you are saying there. If earth's immune system is trying to fight anything off, I would propose that it is the steady decline of morals and personal responsibility that this statement represents.

“Seeing sick, starving, homeless people on our front steps is something a little harder to ignore.”

While this statement on the outside is very caring and understanding of a sensitive topic, it ignores the underlying issues behind it. What we were confronted with after hurricane Katrina was a segment of our population that was “set up for the fall.” Much of the poverty in our country can be traced back to years of learned reliance on welfare. We have a whole segment of the population that could not help themselves if given the tools to do so because they are so conditioned to having someone else do it for them. For every poverty stricken person who was waiting for rescue in New Orleans, I can show you a person new to this country (perhaps not even here legally), unable to speak the language, and yet completely capable of beginning a life here – and able to evacuate themselves and others in their community. I am not saying there should not have been better evacuation plans. There certainly should have. I am saying that we are not addressing the real problems resulting from overwhelming teenage pregnancy, absentee fathers, welfare reliance and dropout rates. It takes a responsible family to raise a responsible child and we are completely ignoring this issue. We have a whole segment of our population caught in a cycle of degeneracy: broken families, welfare, crime, violence, drugs and alcohol abuse. These are all symptoms of a disease that nobody likes to admit plagues America: decaying moral values.

You can poo poo Pat Robertson and his ilk, but they are on to something that some seem too willing to overlook. They are very conscious (more than most of us) of the deterioration of our values, families and communities. The good works of these faith-based organizations are shunned, ignored or unnoticed by those offended by the idea of religion. The battle these groups are fighting to preserve our country's moral fiber should be accepted by all of us as critical to the survival of our society. The path we are headed down is a dark one. Even one who does not believe in evil should be able to recognize that. When headlines read of newborns dumped in trash heaps and we have different levels of sex offenders on our streets, it is time we woke up and recognized the seriousness of our degenerating society. Regardless of beliefs, we all have a common interest in climbing out of this hole we are digging for America. We are kidding ourselves if we think there was that much difference between what we witnessed in New Orleans before and after Katrina. What we saw was a snapshot of what this society is becoming. It quickly degenerated into a pit of hopelessness, moral decay and suffering. To blame government for this free fall into misery is both ignorant and wrong.

Posted by capecodcyclist at September 24, 2005 09:00 PM

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