Maggie's Farm

Resisting the Obvious in New Orleans

Steve Chapman writing in Human Events points out the obvious. Rebuilding NO is a waste of money. The current figure being bandied about is 40 billion dollars. His math works that out to be about 60K per NO resident or for a family of four about $250,000. Asking the question would they take the money and run or stay in a floodzone waiting for the next hurricane, he correctly predicts most would leave.

A quite significant point he fails to touch on is whose money are we talking about. Of course it is the taxpayers, yours and mine. I for one do not want to give a family of four a check for a quarter of a million dollars because they wanted to live in a disaster waiting to happen.

We are truly at the point where our country is no longer more capitalist than socialist. It is now socialist with a patina of capitalism. We have long since passed the quarter of a million dollar "government" money give away to our African-American brothers and sisters. I'm sure the tariff in that demographic amounts to tens of millions per capita. It's similar to rebuilding New Orleans where it currently is and it must stop.

Similarly large segments of our Congress want a replay of the great give away to be repeated by adopting 20 million illegal aliens. That was stopped, or more accurately a hiatus from that goal initiated.

From the geography of New Orleans to the social engineering of our population the government is porking and redistributing the taxpayers money with manifest irresponsibility. It must stop. But who will do it?
The Republican Party now spends more than the Democratic Party does on social engineering and pork.

Who will save us or will it take a massive tax protest of not filing taxes? I am quite sure that if 50 to 100 million Americans refused to file there would be nothing the government could do. The savior there is that the rich and super rich pay about 93% of all taxes anyway and they will file, so the government will simply be forced to contemplate a revolt of the masses, and adjust accordingly or pay the consequences.