Liberals have FINALLY found something they can hang on George W. Bush!
At least, they THINK they can…
At least, they HOPE they can…..
Watching Washington Week on PBS last night was educational..but not from the point that the liberals on the panel thought it was…
Gloria Borger, CBS National Political Correspondent, sat there rolling her eyes when President Bush’s name was mentioned…she ranted: “Poor African Americans are dying in New Orleans…this country failed them…they couldn’t even afford a bus ticket to get out…”
Hey! What about the 300,000+ people that DID listen to the warnings and leave??? THEY lost everything! But they figured better safe than sorry, right?? Is ANYONE talking about THEM??
Let's not forget who and what we are talking about here when we are discussing the plight of those that were "left behind"...
We are talking about none other than the product...the victims...of the "Great Experiment"...some would call it the "Great Society", created by none other than DEMOCRAT President Lyndon B. Johnson:
In 1965, President Johnson called for the establishment of the "Great Society." Its goal was to rebuild American cities through Community Action grants and a variety of other programs. This period also witnessed the implementation of Medicaid, monies directed to the poor for health care, and the signing of the Housing and Urban Development Act, which authorized the construction of 600,000 federally subsidized housing units.
But the largest Great Society programs—Medicare and Medicaid—proved to be highly inefficient and unwieldy; they ultimately became two of the most costly items in the federal budget. And the gap between the expansive intentions of the War on Poverty and its relatively modest achievements fueled later conservative arguments that government is not an appropriate vehicle for solving social problems.
Great Society entitlement programs facilitated a lethargic mentality among the poor that kept many on welfare and thus further institutionalized poverty. Unemployment rates increased during the tenure of Great Society welfare programs.
The irony is that until John F. Kennedys "New Frontier" and Lyndon Johnsons "Great Society" programs, poverty rates were plummeting in the United States, and especially for blacks, from more than thirty-three percent in the early 1950s to less than fifteen percent by the late 1960s. In other words, "dog-eat-dog" capitalism and the philanthropic sector it created was helping to eradicate poverty on its own.
However, within a few years of the congressional capitulation to Johnsons welfare state browbeating, poverty rates stiffened and even rose slightly. At the same time, inner cities, which received large amounts of transfer payments, began to be transformed from enclaves of prosperity to an urban reservation for the nations "underclass." Indeed, along with vast increases in welfare came accompanying expansions in unwed motherhood, drug use, crime, and overall moral decay.
The hue and cry has been about the people that 'were left behind'...
Hey - in every hurricane there are a percentage...a surprisingly large percentage...of people that choose - for whatever reason - not to leave...and, for the most part, they survive...maybe a few bumps and scratches...but they survive...
This debacle in New Orleans is no more President Bush's fault than it is yours and mine...
Rescuers were beaten back...BEATEN BACK...they TRIED to get in, but the mobs were driving them back...shooting at them...shooting at their helicopters...
Don't fall - for ONE NANOSECOND - for the liberal rhetoric as they try to turn this into a race issue...
And, if you do, well just remember one thing...THEY CREATED IT!
DR
