In the aftermath of the Nashville flooding, there have been some startling revelations about this tragedy stemming from the media coverage and the public in general. Specifically, there are no calls to text to a number to donate money, there are no Facebook buttons with links to help or donate, very late mention on WhiteHouse.gov for donations, and not much of a word has been whispered by the news media. This all lies in stark contrast to the coverage and outpouring of concern over hurricane Katrina that devastated the Gulf coast (notably New Orleans) and the earthquake that basically destroyed Haiti.

I wonder aloud and publicly about why this is. Do you? Is it because there aren’t self made victims seen from helicopters holding signs that ask the govt. for help? With not much of a peep from the media, is it because “people helping people” works better [Nashville] than “government helping people” [New Orleans] and that doesn’t fit the script?

Katrina was a great example of why the supporting tenants of Liberalism and the reliance on government does not work and will fail individuals every time. The lesson from Nashville is that people who rely on themselves will be far better off than those looking for a nanny state. It is interesting that the wealthiest socialists, progressives, and liberals among us are saving for their retirements in stock plans, IRA’s, 401(k)’s, Roth IRA’s, and offshore accounts, all the while preaching the positives of Social Security, Welfare, Medicare, and all other “free” government services. Government controlling the masses and being the Great Provider to everyone is wonderful as long as the elite have their golden, self-made, capitalist parachutes.

The Grand old Opry Hotel isn’t scheduled to reopen for seven months and the Grand old Opry was flooded to the point that people were having to canoe across the stage. However, Nashville will rebound. People came streaming into that city willing help in anyway they could, even showing up at people’s houses not even knowing who lived there. The best of the human spirit was on display in the nation’s heartland after record breaking floods.

The example of Nashville proves that free people, free from the bondages of bureaucracy, are always the best solution to a problem. New Orleans is an example of what happens when people rely too heavily on the government to take care of them. In our progressive rush to allow government to “give away” free healthcare, free insurance, free college tuition, free retirement money, free housing, free mortgages, and on and on and on, we destroy the nation our forefathers worked so hard to build. The internal destruction of Greece is as far as we have to look to see our coming future when we vote ourselves money from the federal coffers in the form of a socialistic nanny state.

When only 53% of Americans are paying federal taxes, but the free stuff from the government keeps increasing, we enter the tunnel of destruction, where, if this continues, the light at the other end is simply the headlamp of the oncoming Revolt Express locomotive.

I’ll leave you with two quotes:

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”


The Cycle of Civilization
“Man begins his existence in bondage, and rises:
from bondage through spiritual faith,
from spiritual faith to courage,
from courage to liberty,
from liberty to abundance,
from abundance to selfishness,
from selfishness to complacency,
from complacency to apathy,
from apathy to dependency,
from dependency back into bondage.”

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