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	Name:	MAJ USA RET -
	Subject:	Hierarchy of Needs
	Date:	12/6/2009 9:12:30 AM

You are correct. Creation of, or increasing, entitlements simply creates or increases the entitlement culture. According to B.F. Skinner, “Behavior is a result of its consequences.” The consequence of entitlement is that the consuming culture dips into the largesse of the producing culture without having to make any effort. Free lunch is free lunch… day after day. Entitlement is a reward for indigence.

The producing culture regards breeding as a sacred blessing and contemplates the resources necessary to raise children in a wholesome family environment. Fatherhood is an obligation at conception.

The consuming culture breeds indiscriminately, regardless of the lack of resources, because the government (funded by the producing culture) will also fee the offspring. Fatherhood carries no special obligation.

In the case of New Orleans, the members of the producing culture will rebuild. Homeowners and businesses deserve grants or interest free loans. That much of New Orleans will rise out of her ashes… ummm… silt. Industry and perseverance must be rewarded.

However, in the case of the New Orleans entitlement class, they looked first to government to save them. When the municipal and state government did not, because of gross incompetence and neglect, they cried, “foul” and went after the federal government. [A constitutional note: The federal government may NOT enter a state for an emergency without the specific request of the governor of that state. Louisiana did not ask until it was too late. The surprised federal government, FEMA, threw money and resources at the problem… with reckless abandonment of good management and control.]

Now they want to find reason to sue any agency so that they can hit the lottery. The Corps of Engineers has become a nice plump target. The indigent (and their lawyers) will aggrandize themselves and the producing culture will pay the bill. There will be a fresh canvas on which to restart the squalor as widescreen TVs and Cadillacs move back onto the flood plains of New Orleans.