Big government conservatism...

According to Yahoo! News:

"For those people who say, 'Well, I can take care of myself no matter what, I don't have to prepare,' there is an altruistic element — that to the extent that they are a burden on government services, that takes away from what's available to help those who can't help themselves," Chertoff said. "That is a matter of civic virtue."

Well, there you have it. Republicans and their appointees in the federal government believe that government's role is to "help those who can't help themselves".

Of course, government's role according to our Constitution (remember that??) is to secure the rights of individual Americans to be secure in their lives, liberties, and property. Nothing more, nothing less.

Sadly, government schools and the infusion of communists into our government and media have infected whole generations of People in this country with the false notion that government services are a right, and personal responsibility is something only rich people ought to practice.

The article goes on to state that getting the public to heed government preparedness warnings will likely prove difficult. Gee, you think? After decades of being told NOT to take care of themselves and their families, they think people are just going to wake up and decide to sacrifice their carefree lifestyles in favor of disaster preparation planning?

Last week, Jeb Bush stepped up to the plate in chastising Floridians who were unprepared for Hurricane Wilma despite numerous efforts to warn them and remind them to make necessary arrangements ahead of time. Instead of providing for themselves, Florida's bottom feeders wasted no time in complaining about the "slow response" of FEMA and other government agencies, some barely waited for the storm to pass before they began their cries for government help.

But Dr. Vincent Ferrandino, executive director of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, cautioned against using the schools as messenger except "when it's absolutely necessary, and we consider it an issue of national importance."

"Schools need to be a place where important issues are discussed," Ferrandino said. "But we need to be careful that we don't use the schools constantly for everybody's latest and greatest new idea."

No, sir. How about using schools constantly for the age-old, tried and true ideas handed to us by our founding fathers about each man pulling his own weight and taking precautions for the well-being of his own family?


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