@SPAM+++++++++ Re: [Vision2020] Mississippi and FEMA

[Andreas Schou]

To all --

A translation:

Personal accountability


Blame the victim. 

Self-reliance


Blame the victim. 

State Sovereignty


Blame the State. 

The difference between a helping hand and a handout


Blame the victim. 

The government can't make life perfect - only the individual can do that.


Blame Nature. 

The state exists to handle eventualities and risks that no citizen, not even 
the richest, can handle. We do not expect people to hire private bodyguards 
to protect them against muggings. The police force does that. We do not 
expect people to put out their own fires. We have the fire department to do 
that. We don't expect people to pay for whatever unforseen medical disorders 
they may encounter in their later years. We have Medicare for that. We 
cannot expect peopel to 'just deal with' a hurricane on their own: living 
through a hurricane is something that someone will do, once, maybe twice in 
their life. We cannot expect people living through a hurricane to make 
informed decisions: we have, as a society, delegated disasters from your 
stove being on fire to a massive hurricane to the government. 

We expect the Moscow Fire Department to not get drunk and run into trees, 
and when they arrive, we expect actual professional firefighters, not the 
mayor's brother's college roommate's daughter's cousin. Why can't we expect 
that from our federal government?

-- ACS
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