Sunday, September 03, 2006

"The Real Lesson of Katrina"


Cox & Forkum presents an interesting argument from Robert Tracinski regarding the effect of excessive government handouts to New Orleans residents before Katrina. Here is some of what he had to say:
[T]he disaster in New Orleans was caused, not by too little welfare spending, but by too much. Four decades of dependence on government left people without the resources -- economic, intellectual, or moral -- to plan ahead and provide for themselves in an emergency.


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