Archive for January 17th, 2010

What Do We Really Owe?

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Haitians are getting upset about the delays in being helped.

“Angry Haitians have reportedly been using corpses to set up roadblocks in Port-au-Prince to protest those delays. Photographer Shaul Schwarz said he saw at least two downtown roadblocks formed with bodies of earthquake victims and rocks.

“They are starting to block the roads with bodies,” he told Reuters. “It’s getting ugly out there, people are fed up with getting no help.” ”

Oh? They’re getting fed up with getting no help, are they? So they use dead bodies to block roads and stop aid traffic, with the plan of taking what they want?

I don’t blame starving people from being desparate for food. But being “fed up with getting no help”? Not a damn thing is owed these people and they have zero right, none, to complain about not being handed food, water and shelter by some aid worker.

The Hatians are typical of humans rich or poor. You give us an inch and we want to take a mile. When in a desparate situation, we struggle alone to do what we can with what we have, right up until some charity comes along to help us out. Then we think we were entitled to the charity all along, and start making demands just like the Haitians are doing now.

This idea of entitlement is the foundation of Liberal Left thinking. This innate mental flaw, this stupid, greedy, thankless arrogance that says everyone else should pay my way because they can.

Take a good long look at this, exemplified so clearly now with the Haitians response to all the charity being given them, and then take a good long look at Liberal Left thinking, and maybe you’ll see where this push toward making America a socialist state is going to take us.