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On another message board I frequent, I read this post that epitomizes everything I find most loathesome in the American psyche, and indeed in human nature. It fucking sickens me every time I think of it, and of how many people are surely saying this all over the country....
we are all vulnerable, whether from hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, mudslides, fires, or terrorist attacks. So, it behooves everyone to plan ahead the best you can. People used to laugh at survivalists, stocking away a year's worth of food, and building shelters, or having gas masks handy. Who's laughing this week?
If you think you are too poor to plan, quit smoking, or buy one less Dunkin Donuts coffee, or eat one less hamburger. Put 25 cents a week in a piggy bank, but don't sit, do nothing, and expect Uncle Sam or your neighbors (that's what used to happen sometimes before the *me* generations), to rescue you. It just doesn't work that way. We, as citizens, should take responsibility to at least try to have a plan to tide us over until the resources of the Government can get to us. That includes *not* ignoring evacuation orders because you've always managed to avoid disaster before. Possessions can be replaced - grandma and the dog can't. Granted, there will always be people who get caught in situations, and that is heartbreaking, but the sheer numbers of people who stayed tells me that some of them did so voluntarily, as ______ suggests.
What is WRONG with you? Some people are just so priveleged that just can't even imagine a life where they don't have a car, don't have bus fare, don't have friends with cars, don't have two cents to rub together. Actually don't have 25 cents to put in a piggy bank every week. I mean, Dunkin' Donuts? WHAT? You think those people stayed in their houses to save their possessions? THEY DON'T HAVE POSSESSIONS. THEY ARE POOR. Many of them disabled, chronically ill, elderly, or all of the above. Have an ounce of fucking human compassion. If you don't believe in helping out your neighbors in a time of need - I just don't know. I don't know what to say about you then. URRRRRRRGH!! |
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