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RedState.org Response: Fend for Yourself. That's right! (Sorry, Sharon)

by HadIt

Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:06:08 AM PDT

Update [2005-9-4 14:33:51 by HadIt]: For the record, this refers to the Far-Right-Wing website, Redstate.org. It does NOT refer to residents of states that went for Bush. If I meant it that way, then I would be like those folks at Redstate.org...

I stumbled onto a recent diary at Redstate.org (where I almost never go) which is a summation of the Conservative response to the horrors in NOLA and the lack of competent Federal action.

See the full text below, but the central relevant point is:

If I'm told by authorities to evacuate the area,
I am responsible to see my family safely away from the area.
I am responsible.
I was not raised to expect help from anyone but myself.

And you know what?  I think I agree completely!  
See what I mean below the fold...

See, he talks about how he expects nothing from anyone and doesn't need anyone's help with anything.  He makes a good case...

Who is Responsible?
By: FireFireFire · Section: Diaries

Who is responsible???
I am.
I want all Americans to go thru AA rehab.
I learned almost 16 years ago that I am responsible.
Not George Bush,Not the Government,Not the Republicans,Not the Democrats,Not The liberal left,not the blacks,not the whites.
I am responsible.
I am responsible for the care and feeding of my family.
Me.
If there is a snow storm coming to my section of New England,I am responsible to make sure we have food and fuel.
If a dirtbag criminal breaks into my home,I'm the one who is responsible to protect my family by shooting the dirtbag dead.
If I'm told by authorities to evacuate the area,
I am responsible to see my family safely away from the area.
I am responsible.
I was not raised to expect help from anyone but myself.
I don't expect Teddy Kennedy to help me pay my bills.
I don't expect Michael Moore to make a film that presents a story in an unbiased way.
I don't expect my kids to clean their rooms unless I stand there and watch them.
I don't expect the federal government to be all seeing and all knowing.
I don't expect anything from anybody, because I am responsible.
No one else,Just me.
Try it,You'll like it.

Hmmm, Maybe I will...

Here's my additions.

  • If I need a road to drive to work, I don't need Teddy Kennedy to get funds to make a highway!  I'll build it myself, because I'm responsible.
  • If I need to send a letter from North Carolina to Oregon, I don't need some sissy Postal Service!  I'll walk it over myself, because I am responsible.
  • If I need emergency medication because of Anthrax exposure, I don't need anything from the National Stockpile for poor loser rejects!  I'll extract antibiotics from bread mold, because I am responsible.
  • If I need advance warning of a hurricane, I don't need any Nation Weather Service for lazy bums!   I'll form my own global meteorological data collection and analysis system from leftover Chinese food containers, because I am responsible.
  • If I need to be rescued from a roaring flood, I don't need any wussy National Guard, run by a competent and well-organized FEMAle agency, to pull me out on a wimpy helicopter!  I'll sprout wings and fly away, because I'm responsible.
  • If I need to believe that I never use anything run by the government and think you shouldn't, either, I don't need any morons like you to convince me!   I can do it myself, because I'm delusional.

Anyone else here care to join in the fun?  How will YOU prove YOU'RE responsible?

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  •  And so now I see... (4.00 / 7)

    And so now I see why this way of thinking is so popular.

    It's so damned EASY!

    ...until it all goes wrong.

    by HadIt on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:04:55 AM PDT

  •  I really liked this one (none / 1)

    I don't expect my kids to clean their rooms unless I stand there and watch them.

    ... because I can't teach my kids to be responsible.

    by nomadic on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:05:11 AM PDT

  •  asdf (4.00 / 4)

    If Osama Bin Laden blows up buildings in my country, I don't need the government to hunt him down.  I can form my own army and do that myself, while the U.S. government spends all its resources on an unrelated war.  Because I am responsible.  

    by dtj on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:06:09 AM PDT

    •  More important (none / 0)

      You have the Second Amendment which gives you the right to bear arms.

      Liberal: "I still think it's a respectable word. Its root is "liber," the Latin word for "free," and isn't that what we are all about?"--Mary McGrory

      by mini mum on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:25:05 AM PDT

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  •  New Name (none / 0)

    So the new day dawning in the USA means that we need a new name. How about the United States of Anarchy? We can keep the same initials and I'll take responsibility for that.

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    by DEFuning on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:09:25 AM PDT

  •  "I was not raised to ... (none / 1)

    ...to expect help from anyone but myself."

    Too bad Mr. RedStater wasn't raised in my loving household where I was taught and shown by example that "I am my brother's keeper."

    He got some bad "raisin'."

    When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. -Thomas Carlyle

    by Caldonia on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:10:06 AM PDT

  •  Another (4.00 / 4)

    I am responsible for learning to include spaces after commas.  I have failed to accept that responsibility,but I am still responsible.  Nobody can tell me otherwise,not the liberal left,not Michael Moore,not the Democrats,not George Soros,not anyone.

    by dtj on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:10:09 AM PDT

  •  Good luck (none / 1)

    If you need any help building up the levee in your sinking town, don't look around; just get busy, asshole, 'cause you're on your own.  Jesus.  What is it about pooling our resources to accomplish projects for the good of the community that these anti-tax assholes don't get?

    I wish all the anti-government, anti-community people in this country would secede and leave those of us who want to care for one another the hell alone.  I think Camp Casy is a good microcosm of what a functional community looks like, and I didn't see any dead bodies wasting away out there on the plains.  Sheesh.

    by Lisa on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:15:02 AM PDT

  •  If I need to eat (none / 0)

    I will grow my own food, putting it by for cold winters, because then I won't depend on those roads built by the Fed.

    I will not pay taxes because I am responsible for my own personal safety, the welfare of my children, and their education.  I won't leave my own children behind.

    If I need something I will barter for it and not use money because there will be no need for it.  It would have no meaning without the full faith and confidence of the US Treasury.  Right?

    If a huge commission of evil happens against this country, I will not make a move to defend her, as she is not really mine.

    (Sheesh, this IS too easy!)

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    by kfred on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:16:00 AM PDT

  •  Vaccinations and Medications (none / 0)

    IF I am worried about communicable disease, I will develop my own vaccines for my family.  If anyone in my family becomes ill, I will develop medications to cure their disease.

    by mcinma on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:18:00 AM PDT

  •  Have faith in levees they will not burst (none / 0)

    I don't expect the federal government to be all seeing and all knowing.

    Hey dirtbag, responsibility means taking responsibility, not making excuses.

    Adam raised a Cain, dirtbag.

    In God we trust. All others must pay cash.

    by yet another liberal on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:23:18 AM PDT

  •   West Virginia? (none / 0)

    So if we take personal responsibility for our lives and leave all of the areas of the US subject to natural disaster such as earthquakes, vulcanism, hurricanes, tornados, drought, flooding, blizzards, forest fires, that leaves what? West Virginia maybe.

    Oh crap! I forgot about asteroid hits.

    I guess I'll stay in Tennessee where the only threat is the occasional tornado and ice storm, knowing I have a government that will provide warning for these events, and help when and if the event actually occurs.

    Isn't it discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit? (Noel Coward)

    by Mid10Dem on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:23:42 AM PDT

  •  I (none / 1)

    will not expect a doctor to perform a life-saving operation on me. I'm responsible.

    I will not expect that my boss will give me a paycheck. I'm responsible.

    When my co-worker's husband is in a car wreck, I won't take up a collection at work, because she's responsible.

    When my sixty year old mother can't carry something up to her apartment, I won't, because she's responsible.

    When my cats meow for food, I won't feed them. Huxley, Cookie and Squeak should get off their lazy cat asses and go look for a job. They're responsible.

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-02-19-mccain-roe_x.htm

    by joojooluv on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:24:05 AM PDT

  •  Yea, well (none / 0)

    Bush hasn't figured out he's "responsible."

    by Dunbar on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:26:33 AM PDT

  •  I am responsible (none / 1)

    When I have a government that is corrupt, incompetent, and evil, I will not wait to vote in concert with other citizens in some silly group exercise, I will chase the bastards down and string them high, because I am responsible.

    Sheesh ... doesn't this guy realize where such thinking leads? Well, it can lead to an American revolution. And I keep thinking maybe we need another one. But didn't those patriots work together?

    "There are four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order." Ed Howdershelt

    by JuliaAnn on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:33:37 AM PDT

  •  My only comment for the far-right... (none / 1)

    ...is if you really believe your B.S., I dare you to go to a large group of the refugees and homeless in Mississippi and Alabama and tell them it's all their fault. I promise there won't be anything left of you when you're done. Cowards.

    by Darrin on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:39:46 AM PDT

  •  Irony... (4.00 / 2)

    If I need an outlet to express my childish views to the world, I should create my own website and pay for it myself, rather than expecting a large bastion of conservative idiocy to disseminate them for me...  because attracting and maintaining an audience of readers and viewers of my opinions is my responsibility, not redstate.org's.

    2008 RNC Convention information :)

    by Redpin on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:42:44 AM PDT

  •  I'm not sure why this guy (none / 0)

    wants everone in America to go through AA.  He obviously missed the entire point.  It's not about taking on the responsibility for everything, it's about letting go.  He seems pretty wound up.

    "One man with courage makes a majority." ~Andrew Jackson

    by Bodean on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:44:30 AM PDT

  •  New Orleans was expected to be obliterated (1.00 / 2)

    by a category 5 storm.

    This forecast was known to the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisana.

    The Governor of Louisiana had thousands of school buses available for evacuation.

    The mayor had hundreds of RTA buses located nearby and probably many school buses.

    Charter bus companies are listed in phone books.

    There are thousands of police cars in the State of Louisiana.

    Most people had relatives with a car. All people in New Orleans had neighbors nearby with a car.

    The storm hit just before the first of the month. Most people probably had money to pay rent and mortgages which could have used to buy a way out alive.

    If anybody was relying on George Bush to save them, they were more of an idiot than he was.

    by SingleVoter on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 11:59:52 AM PDT

  •  I am responsible (none / 0)

    I will not rely on Japanese automakers and cheap montly payment plans from any dealership for my SUV because I am responsible.  I will build a steel mill in my basement, raise rubber trees in my greenhouse and build my SUV myself in my shed.  Because I am responsible.

    I will not rely on foreign imports for gas to drive my self-made SUV.  I will dig for oil under my lawn and refine it in the kitchen sink.  Because I am responsible.  

    I will not shop at Walmart and depend on goods produced by lazy decadent over-paid Communist Chinese laborers. I will manufacture my own Tshirts and DVD players and America the Book with naked Supremes (to use for kindling).

    On the other hand. . .

    When the libruls complain about global warming from my SUV-driving and ground water and air pollution from my backyard factories. . .I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE.  

    When the libruls complain about the minimum wages and lack of benefits I provide to my Mexican laborers. . .I AM NOT RESPOSNIBLE.  

    When the libruls complain about the "suspected looters" I "accidentally shot" at the local mall. . .I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE.  

    Et cetera, et cetera.

    by Rithmck on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 12:04:45 PM PDT

  •  This moron (none / 0)

    should go buy a small island somewhere and live by himself.  The first thing I think of is "it takes a village to raise a child."  Well, it takes a community to make a community, and we're all the community of humanity.  This person has NO humanity.

    Pennacchio for Pennsylvania

    by PAprogressive on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 01:35:31 PM PDT

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