It's Time To Grow Up

We all were horrified by the devastation that hurricane Katrina brought to the Gulf Coast last year. It was horrible to see the suffering and loss that the citizens suffered, and we all wanted to help in whatever way we could. Some people sent money, some sent food and clothes, and the rest of us lobbied hard to get the government to step up and help. When push came to shove, Americans were willing to help, but charity has it's limits.

I read an article today about a woman who is being asked to leave the house she and her three children have lived in rent free for the last year. After seeing her featured on the Oprah show (you knew she had to be involved in this somehow. ), a church group from a Chicago suburb drove down to Mississippi and rescued this 23 year old, her three illegitimate kids and her deadbeat boyfriend from a tent in a parking lot. Talk about being good Christians. The group cleaned and painted the old house that the church owned for it's pastor, and told this upstanding citizen she could move in rent free. All this was with the understanding that she was to stay for a year while she got her life in order.

What a surprise, she's doesn't want to leave. This leech has only worked for a month or two in the last year, and then decided she wanted to "focus on her kids". The "father" doesn't live with them and has said that he has no way to support them. Now the woman is crying that the church has asked her to leave.

Where do I begin? While most of my anger is of course pointed at this loser woman and her no account sperm donor boyfriend, I have to save a little for the church group. I applaud their kindness, but how stupid are they? Did they really think that a 23 year old who started pumping out welfare babies at 18, and then added two more to the teet, is going to make the right choices with her life. I'm sure she really had a lot of motivation to find work and start rebuilding her shambles of a life, seeing as she was living rent free and people had given her everything she needed. I'm no bible scholar, but I remember a little passage that went, "God helps those who help themselves." I hate people who do nothing for themselves and just figure that others will help them. Grow up you lazy skank! If you want to focus on your kids, go get a job, take advantage of the child care you've been offered, keep your legs closed for a couple of months and build a life for them so they don't end up a needy, dependent waste like their mother.

Harsh? Maybe, or maybe I'm suffering from what experts are calling "Katrina Burnout". Most right thinking people agree that people sometimes need a hand up, but then lazy, shiftless leeches take advantage and it just turns into a hand out. I think you should be able to get things started in a year. Sure it isn't easy, but maybe if you took stock of the situation, you could make some better choices on this new path. It's time to take away the FEMA debit cards, free hotels and all the free stuff, and actually make people work a little for what they need.

That's it. I think you get my point. Have a great weekend and don't forget to listen to Laura an I on WGN Saturday night/Sunday morning from 1-5 am CST. Later...Brian