Corruption in Louisiana goes back to when Standard Oil ran the state. As for NOLA’s so-called culture of dependence, most of the deaths occurred in the Ninth Ward, the highest concentration of Africian-American home ownership in the city. The Ninth Ward was described to me by a white native of NOLA and retired P.E. teacher as “the backbone of the New Orleans working class.”

OK, tax cuts increase revenue to the government. Like a typical lib you indicate there would be more money if those cuts had been offset. In reality, we would need to cut unnecessary spending (like the 400 pages of stuff for LA when only NO needed help).

I have referenced the federal government website in a number of posts dealing with taxes, who pays them and the percentages as well as how the tax cut affected each portion of tax payers. Search this site and you will find the posts with the links. I got them from the government, not the WaPo.

Businesses here have a higher tax rate and more regulation than most any other country. That is why they go to other countries to do business.

Capital gains taxes? We already pay taxes on the money we invest. Why should the rate of what we make on the investment be astronomically high? What did the government do to earn the money and why are they entitled to it? Why are you entitled to the money that is taken and redistributed when you did not take the risks associated with investing it? Socialism might be one reason. What gives government the right to continue to take more and more of OUR money? Government has no money, they TAKE it from those of us who work.

You should stop drinking Kool Aid and read once in a while. Then you would be better informed.

NO is a crap hole and is one of the leading cities in murder. Irresponsible government filled with cronyism and corruption and certainly illegal confiscation of legal weapons as in Nazism.

Maybe you have not figured it out, I have no love for the city of New Orleans. I feel badly that they got hit with a bad storm but I have little sympathy for those who made matters worse.

You have a chip on your shoulders and blame racism for your problems. You make allegations that are not based in reality and continue to be disparaging. I don’t really blame you. If I lived there I would feel that way as well.

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If you don’t like the trough comment, too bad, get over it.

I am against subsidizing anything.
The government HAS NO MONEY. So don’t give me crap about them having it if it were not for Iraq because the government has NO money. It confiscates money from the taxpayer and redistributes it. That is the problem, you think it is government money when it is money that comes from others.

BTW, military spending and war are in our Constitution but you won’t find welfare or bail outs or NO after hurricanes in there at all.

I have a suggestion for you, learn before you speak. The tax burden shifted to middle class?

The lower 50% of wage earners pay 3% of the taxes. The top 25% of wage earners pay 87%, the top 50% pay 97%. Tell me how that burden has shifted. Greater than 50% of the people in NO don’t pay taxes because they are at or below poverty level.

Learn the numbers before you speak.

What does the fact that a phrase has been around for a while have to do with anything? Looks to me like you took a saying that applies to instances of genuine pig-like greed and applied to people doing their best to make it day to day. I mean, do you seriously think that poor people don’t work?

The color of people means little to you? I’ve scrolled through your blog. It’s black this and black that. And yet I’m the race baiter…

If the govt doesn’t have money it’s because we’ve tossed it down the rathole of Iraq and because the tax burden has been shifted from corporations and the very wealthy to the middle class.

Oh, well, it is good to know that you’re opposed to subsidized grazing fees, subsidized water, and subsidized water for western ranchers and farmers.

I never owned a black person and I never lynched one. I have never been involved in Jim Crow laws so Earth to Citizen K, I DON”T OWE YOU OR ANYONE ELSE ANYTHING.

The government causes poverty and if black people would stop following the Democrats and think for themselves they would be able to lift the burden of poverty that is meant to keep them UNDER government control.

Citizen K, the color of people means little to me. How they behave and how they conduct their lives means more. The fact is those (of any color) who live off welfare are not contributing to society.

And here is another news flash, the government has no money to give them or the people of NO. All that money is confiscated from people who pay taxes. I pay taxes and I have a right to express how I feel about the way they are spent. You might not like it but since the money comes from taxpayers and not the government we taxpayers have a right to express our disgust over the matter.

Slavery ended a long time ago and a lot of white people died to make it that way. Jim Crow ended decades ago and the Republican Party got Civil Rights laws passed. Quit making excuses and get busy. Since I am paying I want to see your rear end working.

At some point emotions will give way to facts and folks like citizen K will come to grips that the gimme mentality (while not ALL of NOLA met that criteria) was a factor in the recovery.

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This “culture of dependence” canard has been around for a long time. It’s the exact same rationalization that the British used to deny meaningful relief to Ireland during the Famine. It worked so well then that it displaced and starved to death 2.5 million people.

As for code words being for morons, where have you been? The guys who came up with the concept — Kevin Phillips and Pat Buchanan — freely admit it.

There is not and has never been a trough. No one gets fat off of poverty. The federal govt intervened in Louisiana and other southern states the first place because Jim Crow had created an oppressed class based on race. There were lynchings, for God’s sake. Black men were “boys.” They couldn’t look sideways at a white women without risking their lives. Whites exploited their labor and then took what little money they had by controlling business. It was a vile, brutal world without a single redeeming characteristic. And earth to you: IT WASN’T THAT LONG AGO.

The most the federal govt has accomplished has been to curb the worst excesses, end political disenfranchisement, and make it possible for people to live in mere poverty instead of abject misery. Oh, and we expect gratitude for our generosity when it took moving heaven and earth and the deaths and beatings of Civil Rights volunteers to accomplish even this month.

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