Like their French cousins in Paris, the government of New Orleans, tried to do it's best to house, and supply the basic needs of the poorest of the poor. New Orleans acted on a basic impulse to "do something" while ignoring the needs of human dignity, and failing to providing a sense of hope and opportunity for a better future. Instead, state centered socialist solutions were favored over all other considerations.
In an effort to be all things to all people in need, the do-gooders with a socialist plan warehoused human beings on a massive scale and left them little hope for a future as bright as the one they could see all around them demonstrated by those who were free of the state's smothering embrace. In addition to New Orleans, we have seen the failure of this approach time and again in places like Toledo, Ohio and South Central Los Angeles.
Religion plays a key factor in what is happening in Europe, but what unites the problem in Paris, New Orleans or Toledo more than a race, cultural or even a religious issue is the failure of government to provide a solution to every problem faced by it's citizens. Just as France faces the problem of assimilating an alientated Moslem immigrant population into the mainstream of French society, we have the same problem integrating aliented sectors of our population.
In the rebuilding of New Orleans, Democrats are already calling out for more of the same failed socialist remedies which left so many trapped in poverty and despair, unable to fend for themselves at a time when no government could help them. Remember that lesson, and remember Paris, as we rebuild New Orleans and deal with other social ills. Giving all our citizens a chance to live the American dream, not a socilialist nightmare, is the right thing to do.
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