Send Cash -- Party Struggling

Can someone please explain why we're sending Billions of dollars to these people? Clearly they're not struggling. If these people truly needed money, they'd be trying to work, working for food, or at least sitting on a freeway off-ramp with the old "Will do nothing for food" sign.

But no, we'll continue trying to buy their votes with billions of *MY* money. This shows, yet again, that government is utterly incapable of administering any sort of charity program. And keep in mind -- it's NOT charity, love, or even helpful in any way, shape or form, when you're using someone else's money.

Oh, and just down the road from me, in Salisbury, NC, there are hundreds of trailers with giant "FEMA" signs on them. They're supposed to be free trailers for "victims" of the hurricane to live in for free. No, really, free houses to anyone who wants one -- but you see, they're in Salisbury because government (that's who owns them) has a rule that says they cannot put mobile homes in "flood-prone" areas.

So that enormous pile of government cash will sit here, doing nothing but rusting away... until, of course, the North Carolina government finds out about it -- you see, there's laws against "unsightly" rusting mobile homes in this state. When the state finds them, if they're rusty, the state can fine the owners and tow them away to the junkyard.

Is there anything that government can actually do right? I really don't think so. I'm not an anarchist, but if I need to be to get "compromise" and meet where the Constitutional Republic exists, I'm all for it. Remember this when you're looking at your paycheck and listening to Congressmen saying they can't cut taxes because they can't afford it.

Posted by: Ogre at 02:09 PM

Comments

1 I wonder ... how much many tax dollars does it take to buy 9-foot Betty Boop cane? And is there anyway I can claim part-ownership and write that off on my taxes? haha

Posted by: The Realest White Boy at February 28, 2006 09:59 PM (gMpkp)

2 YOU ask the same question as me. Not one more dime of my hard earned money will go to this "relief" effort. AND...the MSM is all over the Mardi Gras like it's the best thing. Yep. Party hearty while you beg for help. MorOns.

Posted by: Raven at February 28, 2006 10:09 PM (u+qhH)

3 No, but if you say you're from Nawlins, the government WILL give you free housing for at least 6 months.

Posted by: Ogre at February 28, 2006 11:58 PM (CyQ4M)

4 Ogre - I live in a resort area my own self, and you're off base on this.

Look at these people - do you think they are LOCALS? They came to party, and to give the tourist businesses a boost with some actual earned money instead of a handout. Good for them.

Posted by: Peter Porcupine at March 01, 2006 03:28 AM (6MYkI)

5 So you're saying none of the locals participate in this? I'm not buying that. Sure, the tourists might generate some revenue for the locals, and that's good, but to say that the locals are hard-working people, trying to get by after losing so much? I'm not buying that one.

Posted by: Ogre at March 01, 2006 12:34 PM (/k+l4)

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