Wind in my hair, sun on my face

Here are a few excerpts from an old article I wrote about the Great Gulf States Hurricane of 2005. I refuse to refer to it as Katrina, because the suffering of New Orleans was but a small part of the devastation from that storm. If you say the word 'Katrina', most people think about the ugliness of the events in New Orleans, where the city, state and federal governments did what governments do best….waste taxpayers money and fail to solve the problem.

Tell me now, have the trillions (yes trillions of dollars extracted from the wallets of working Americans, enabled the Federal government to win the ‘war on poverty’? We’ve been fighting that war since ‘All the way with LBJ’, do you see any results?

Have the billions of dollars of taxpayers money spent on the ‘War on Drugs’ had any measure of success?

If we continue to pump money into New Orleans, Louisiana, and other sinkholes of taxpayer’s money, do you think it will do a moniker of good?

The Great Gulf State Hurricane of 2005

I know it was a painful, costly and ugly event, but it should have opened the eyes of everyone who cares about this wonderful nation of America.

Louisiana, and particularly New Orleans has been a liberal state and city, yes a liberal Democrat controlled state and city for decades and decades. What happened when the wards of the city and state needed help? The city and state governments did almost nothing to help the ones without automobiles to flee the wrath of the storm.

While hundreds of school buses were left fueled and parked in rising flood waters, the lazy bureaucrats of Louisiana headed for high ground, caring not a whiff about the poor citizens who were being traumatized.

Funny how no one blames the government of New Orleans, Louisiana, for any of the failures of that event. Why New Orleans even re-elected Mr. Chocolate City Nagin as Mayor.

Somehow the blame was shifted to 1600 Pennsylvania Street, Washington D.C.

Even while the mayor of ‘someday will be a chocolate city’, was fleeing to Baton Rouge, almost everyone was blaming George Bush for everything that happened before, during and after the storm. While everyone in the media was spewing out hatred for George W. Bush, the congressperson representing New Orleans was commandeering National Guard resources to visit his home to rescue bags of goodies from his home……you know the home where he kept his pilfered money in the freezer. Mr. Cold Cash Jefferson.

Did you hear much about his blatant thievery and corruption from the Maimed Street Media??????

Mentally Maimed, Mentally Drained and the laughingstock of real Americans. But then again, we don’t need ‘em…..and even if they pretend to be on America’s side……laugh at them, don’t watch them, email them and yes, even spit on them if you must walk near them. The Mean Spirited Media of America is not worthy of the freedom my ancestors fought and died for. They spit on our flag, our soldiers……our president…….I think is about time for us to do some spitting. I mean that, and don’t apologize.

Here are a few observations and conclusions of mine.

1. The only government agency, department or program that works when there is hard work to do is the Military complex; I consider police, firefighters and medical personnel to be a part of that complex when there is a disaster. But when there are no disasters, everyone but the military is doing substandard work. Must I take you as a passenger in my 18wheeler and even while paying attention to traffic, point out the waste and thievery of those designing, building or maintaining our roads? Sure we have good roads compared to Kenya, Africa. But we are not getting what we are forced to pay for. Taxes are taken from us to build roads…….but like that old Wendy’s commercial…..I must ask, ‘Where’s the roads’? Or how about this legal citizens of the USofA, ‘Where’s the fence?’

2. Our bloated bureaucracy has created massive agencies that cannot handle any problem of large magnitude, and does a pitiful job with the small problems. (Go watch your government in action at the motor vehicle department).

Don’t remain self deluded!

We as a nation are unprepared for a huge catastrophe.

Our government is broken.

It is so large, wasteful and dishonest,

that it cannot do a quality job for its citizens. It is taking a large percentage of our wages to maintain, and it is unable to provide quality, fair or timely service to the ones who pay the bills.

3. If it had been President Kerry in the White house when the hurricane struck, the same exact scenario would have occurred. Ray Nagin would still have not had a clue, or know where to get one. The governor of Louisiana would still have been a dunce with a fancy title and high paying job she is unqualified for. And John Kerry could not have directed the government response any better, because of the bloated bureaucracies of FEMA, and other agencies of government.

4. It is convenient to try to blame your political enemy for the failures of the whole system, but there is not a man or woman alive that could get quality work out of our Government Agencies. It won’t happen. It can’t happen. The largesse of the government has rendered it helpless in a crisis. (I am working on some suggestions on how to solve the problems I mention, but none of the solutions would be popular, since no solution will work until the government workers start working. Tenure is suicide to government. Unions should be illegal for ALL government worker including those in the government school buracracy, AND AT LEAST one third of the federal governments unproductive parasites should be fired, yes fired. This would be a good start, but I doubt we have the desire to correct the problems of our decaying government, so we must live with the results. After all, most of us know someone, or are related to someone that would be out of work, if government was run like a profit making business.)

And I want to end this article on a positive note.

The brightest moment in the whole gulf coast hurricane disaster, was when the military showed up in the city that Ray Nagin left when it needed him the most. The military was there within the hour……and worked day and night until the rescue job was done. To the loudmouth liberal…..I suggest one thing…..research the facts. Within minutes the military had helicopters hovering, ships and airplanes on the way, and the good citizens of America were volunteering by the thousands to help. The Salvation Army was on the road, good people were on their knees praying, and Ray Nagin was leaving town in his chauffeur driven limousine. There is no better illustration of the failure of Liberal Governments than when you compare New Orleans to Gulfport Mississippi. Liberals head away from the battle………….ANY BATTLE, think about it?

Should we as a nation turn over our military to Liberals? The cowards of democracy, the parasites of freedom and the roadblockers to success?