I’m not kidding, and I don’t say that lightly. But its not what you think.
Our nation found itself at a crossroads in the days following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. We were ready for a national discussion on what it meant to be American. President George W. Bush and the federal government did exactly what they should have done during a natural disaster. They saved lives and offered resources, treasure and coordination to the local boots on the ground that are responsible for their people. But all of that wasn’t enough. The media and the race pimps, with an inadequate mayor as accomplice, stirred up the populous that became too animalistic to take pride and responsibility for itself. And they all came looking for Nanny Government to bail them out. Where is my money? Where is my shelter? Where is my trailer, and my debit card and new house? Where was the federal government to come save the people from the unsavable? Where was the federal government to provide for all their wants and needs?
It doesn’t matter that its not the federal government’s job. It was never the federal government’s job. It was never the President’s job, nor FEMA’s, nor the American public. Never had been, but that didn’t matter to the race pimps and the liberal media looking for someone to blame. Local governments take care of their localities. States take care of themselves. The federal government offers resources and assistance, and some over-arching coordination… but it is the job of the individual state to deploy resources, ask for treasure, seek help and protect the populous. That is how it always has been.
But everything was different with Katrina. The news media and Hollywood were almost giddy to exploit the citizenry. The pictures of the young African American boy asking for help… the masses crowding the Super Dome, the riots in the street. If only Nanny Government would bail these people out. Give them all a new home, new clothes, new money, a new start.
It was at that point that President George W. Bush failed our nation. Not because he didn’t do enough, but because he didn’t defend what was right. As a nation, we needed to have a national debate. We needed to be reminded of what government was for and why states exist. We needed to understand what citizens in Mississippi understood, what the citizens in Florida or Coastal Carolina previously understood, or what the citizens in Iowa have just recently faced. We needed to shine a light on the structure of our government and remind our citizens of the truth of our founding.
But we did not. President Bush didn’t defend himself or our government, and he let the liberal media frame the issue. He ceded to the likes of Kayne West, Spike Lee and Sean Penn… giving up our federalism in the process. He could have used the national address to pray for the people and the nation and remind them of our federal government’s purpose. But he failed to do that, an in a moment he failed us all.
Now text books and the populous accept that Katrina was a failure of our government. And the same people who accept that as truth expect so much more. From the same people who wanted new homes and debit cards for Katrina victims brings you bailouts, welfare and a redistribution of wealth. They praise the current President as a Messiah and ask him for a new home, or better benefits for their job at McDonald’s, or unemployment income equal to the job they just lost. They expect the tax payer to pay for their home, and the gas in their car, and the health care for their child. They expect the government to forgive the mortgage they no longer want, or pay off the house they no longer can afford. They don’t need to work, they don’t need to make it on their own way. The bootstraps to pull them up belong to everyone else. There is no more failure, no more responsibility, no more self reliance. And thus there is no more motivation for success. And the slippery slope of Nanny Government, The Mother of all Bailouts and welfare run amok takes hold. In a few short years we have cultivated and nurtured a culture so reliant on the federal government and expectant of federal help that it simply can’t separate itself from the government’s tit.
And the ObamaMessiah absolves them from everyone else’s sins, apologizes for the government’s past failures, and promises salvation at the expense of generations to come.
George W. Bush is going to be blamed anyway, so let’s at least blame him for something that is actually his fault. Yes, the current economic debacle and decline of democracy were aided by President Bush… he simply didn’t stand up against the forces of liberalism and socialism when he had the chance.
Just a generation ago, people were too proud to accept help unless the help was unavoidable. My how things have changed. President Bush may not have seen that change coming, or maybe he had to much self respect to even understand it when it slapped him in the face. But the truth can be denied no more. Once a proud strong nation, built upon values, self determination and faith… we are now nothing but a mob of whiners, blaming everyone else for our troubles and looking for a handout. Our identity and our strength as a nation have both been lost.
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