A Hard Wind's Gonna Blow

To those who are stuck on stupid, the ones still publicly blaming President Bush for the failures after the Gulf States Hurricane, I have a few things to say.

I’m almost glad it happened. Yes you heard me right, I am almost glad it happened. Like many other people I tried to help my American brothers and sisters who had lost everything they owned and had no job, no place to live, and nothing to eat. 95% of those who lost some or all, got busy with the task of rebuilding their lives. But to me it does appear that about 5% of those who lost something, are spitting in the faces of those who rushed to help and the taxpayers who are still being asked to help. No one minds helping someone who is helping themselves. And no one enjoys hearing people constantly complaining that other people are not doing enough for them, while they sit on their duff.

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.

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.
2. Our bloated bureaucracy has created massive agencies that cannot handle a problem of a large magnitude. Don’t delude yourself; 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, a job she is unqualified for. And the President would have been blamed for other peoples failures. John Kerry could not have directed the government response any better than George Bush, because he still would be dealing with the bloated bureaucracies of FEMA, and other agencies.
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 banned from government work places, and about 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 business.)

And I want to end this article on a positive note.
The brightest moment in the whole gulf coast hurricane disaster, was when our military showed up. The soldiers, doctors, police and firefighters were welcomed as heroes. And well they should, for it is they that are doing something worthy of their wages; even though in most cases they are underpaid. They are not the problem. I remember the pictures that showed the National Guard showing up on the scene of all the misery; People had happy smiling faces, and looked relieved. People smiling while standing in or near the ruins of their life. Those pictures are a testimony to the thankfulness America has for its warriors, here and abroad.