Welfare State & Katrina

Robert Tracinski authored A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State, an article making the rounds which basically blames the victims. Mr. Tracinski blames the chaos in NOLA on people not behaving the way you would expect them to behave and they're not behaving because they are products of the "welfare state."

Tracinski says : "But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about saving their houses and property? They don't, because they don't own anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen to their businesses or how they are going to make a living? They never worried about those things before. Do they worry about crime and looting? But living off of stolen wealth is a way of life for them...People living in piles of their own trash, while petulantly complaining that other people aren't doing enough to take care of them and then shooting at those who come to rescue them—this is not just a description of the chaos at the Superdome. It is a perfect summary of the 40-year history of the welfare state and its public housing projects...The welfare state—and the brutish, uncivilized mentality it sustains and encourages—is the man-made disaster that explains the moral ugliness that has swamped New Orleans. And that is the story that no one is reporting."

Trancinski believes capitalism is the only moral system and holds the usual neocon view that it's racism only when it involves Jews (nor does he ever mention the welfare state of Israel and the brutish mentality that encourages). He used to write on Clinton's policies being disasters, etc. And of course wouldn't ya know it, Larry Elders over at Townhacks also writes of the "welfare state" in connection to Katrina stating : "Some demand a commission to investigate the failures and breakdowns in Hurricane Katrina. Fine. Let's hope they put together a commission to investigate another hurricane -- that wrought by the welfare state and the irresponsible use of the race card." Larry, keep hacking and you too will get that Armstrong Williams reward. I wonder if Larry is listed in the Rent-A-Negro directory. Larry may not be "wrought" but he is bought.

Almost forgot, Star Parker also weighed in on the issue : "The charges of racism-inspired foot-dragging isn't just nonsense. It's pernicious nonsense." All the Townhack folks deny racism except of course in connection to Jews, and they often mention American Black leaders hugging Chavez and Mugabe these days as proof of some evil or another.