Get your Hand in Handouts.
Unfortunately, after excitingly bringing up to a number of doctors that I might have Asperger's I got laughed out of the room. I guess I'm just so obnoxious that I've honed it into an art that can only be classified as a disorder, but actually is not one.
So that's a bummer. Here I thought I would be basking in "govment" disability handouts so I could get to get enough dough to buy the obligatory new sneakers and a plasma.
Speaking of which! If you saw the HBO special on Katrina (four hours long?!!!) there are couple of points that are worth mentioning.
1) They showed a woman who had her house destroyed by the Hurricane. Habitat for Humanity had built her a new house. When she was giving the tour of the new house and being interviewed for the piece she was standing in front of a 50" HD projection tv. Ummm......WTF? Did it come from Electronics for Humanity?
2) When they were showing all of the pictures of the Hurricane from 1911 or whatever, all the photos were pictures of people rebuilding homes - days after the disaster. Granted, shack like structures, but the people were active. From Katrina, they showed everyone sitting on porches, drinking beer, wandering around aimlessly, ONE YEAR after the disaster. The only activity these people had shared was collectively petitioning for trailers. Now granted, building codes have gotten tighter since then, but I think the REAL issue is what is considered a home.
NOW - not to get into my McMansion rant, but what is wrong with the log cabin? What is wrong with shanty towns?
My belief is that every generation of beareaucrats is forced to make new regulations. In 100 years how many regulations is that?! My father believes that for every law passed one should be removed. This is wise. Consider our country is a camel....Which is the law that will break the camel's back?
So given that shanty towns and log cabins are unsafe - which, well, they are. We are forced to deal with the fact that all of these people that are standing around drinking beer have basically been forced to do that by law by simply removing the ability for these people to help themselves.
So FEMA, USA, Any modern government....If you are listening. The FIRST THING YOU NEED TO DO IN ANY DISASTER IS ENABLE THE STRONG AND WILLING! The will set an example for the rest of the beer swillers and gawkers, and push them to get something done. Stop regulating int these situations, and actually remove some regulations. Don't remove our rights though - oh wait, those are mostly gone now anyway. Regardless, please - in an emergency situation identify leadership and let them get to work. It's one of the few things that builds countries. Reward these people. Give them land or something. It used to work for kings. We should give it a shot.
So that's a bummer. Here I thought I would be basking in "govment" disability handouts so I could get to get enough dough to buy the obligatory new sneakers and a plasma.
Speaking of which! If you saw the HBO special on Katrina (four hours long?!!!) there are couple of points that are worth mentioning.
1) They showed a woman who had her house destroyed by the Hurricane. Habitat for Humanity had built her a new house. When she was giving the tour of the new house and being interviewed for the piece she was standing in front of a 50" HD projection tv. Ummm......WTF? Did it come from Electronics for Humanity?
2) When they were showing all of the pictures of the Hurricane from 1911 or whatever, all the photos were pictures of people rebuilding homes - days after the disaster. Granted, shack like structures, but the people were active. From Katrina, they showed everyone sitting on porches, drinking beer, wandering around aimlessly, ONE YEAR after the disaster. The only activity these people had shared was collectively petitioning for trailers. Now granted, building codes have gotten tighter since then, but I think the REAL issue is what is considered a home.
NOW - not to get into my McMansion rant, but what is wrong with the log cabin? What is wrong with shanty towns?
My belief is that every generation of beareaucrats is forced to make new regulations. In 100 years how many regulations is that?! My father believes that for every law passed one should be removed. This is wise. Consider our country is a camel....Which is the law that will break the camel's back?
So given that shanty towns and log cabins are unsafe - which, well, they are. We are forced to deal with the fact that all of these people that are standing around drinking beer have basically been forced to do that by law by simply removing the ability for these people to help themselves.
So FEMA, USA, Any modern government....If you are listening. The FIRST THING YOU NEED TO DO IN ANY DISASTER IS ENABLE THE STRONG AND WILLING! The will set an example for the rest of the beer swillers and gawkers, and push them to get something done. Stop regulating int these situations, and actually remove some regulations. Don't remove our rights though - oh wait, those are mostly gone now anyway. Regardless, please - in an emergency situation identify leadership and let them get to work. It's one of the few things that builds countries. Reward these people. Give them land or something. It used to work for kings. We should give it a shot.
posted by Ace Emery at
1:44 PM
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