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Originally Posted by smooth
Why do you keep posting comments like this?
You act as though all the poor, black residents were unemployed and on welfare.
Where are you pulling this information from, if not your own predispositions?
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Perhaps you misunderstood me. I did not mean to imply that all the poor black residents were unemployed and on welfare. There were many people that couldn't evacuate that were not on welfare. The point I was making was that Louisiana and New Orleans created and ran a welfare state for the last half a century. It was this created welfare state, as well as a poor education system and corrupt government officials, that kept the people poor. While the people with means were able to leave, people without means had no choice. Now why did they have no means? What was it that caused them to be poor, employed or not, actually receiving cash welfare payments or not? I argue that it was the welfare-state and handouts created by liberalism in New Orleans. I argue that it was the system "created to help the poor and needy" that kept them poor and needy, and that is why they couldn't evacuate. I also argue that when the government allows the people to rely on them for assistance, they had a responsibility to not leave them alone in a time of crisis, but give them an equal opportunity to leave the city as any wealthy citizen has (That is the liberal ideal, is it not?). I argue that it is that local governments' responsibility to evacuate the dependent.
Here's a quick breakdown of the welfare state in New Orleans created by Louisiana:
Background statistics -
Total pop: 485,000
Black pop: 326,000 (Why are so many of the poor black? Because there are a high percentage of African Americans in New Orleans)
as of 11/20/03
43,650 (9% of pop) NO citizens recieve cash welfare payout
82,450 (17%) of NO citizents reside in public or subsidized housing
43% of households in NO did not have a vehicle
Of married families in NO, 17% had no spouse employed
28% of NO families had no adult employed
82% of low-income families in NO are African American
http://www.state.la.us/tanf/needsassess.htm
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Originally Posted by pan6467
I guess you missed the whole point of not dividing the nation further and keeping politics and partisanship out of saving people's lives.....
Aw well, some people understand and some don't let's hope to God the majority get over the Goddamned partisan politics and finger pointing bullshit.
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I think the way to save people's lives is to find the problems that caused such a disproportionate percentage of the population to be poor and dependent on the government. If we can solve these problems, next time people will have the means to save themselves and there will be no one to blame. Don't you agree that we should take an in-depth look at the root of these problems? Ignoring them because they appear partisan does not solve it, but looking into the root of the problem does.