(As a footnote to the Atlas Shrugged column, it is the largest circulated novel, and has gone through more re-prints than any other book other than the Bible. Get it and read it!)
You know, the Don Imus of the “nappy headed hos” fame, which got him fired? Well, he’s back on TV again on the RFD channel, (379 on Direct TV), and I’m glad he’s back. He’s not good looking, an ex-drunk, ex-druggie, and has an extremely shady past. I’ve got a biography of him, and he indeed has done a lot of crazy, wild things. He’s popular, because of his guests, who are usually newsworthy, a comedian he has, who does the most outrageous impersonations of famous people, and maybe a lot of other reasons, which I could care less about. Thursday morning, he had his wife Diedre on, and she was expounding on the evils of vaccines, with which I totally agree. She’s a smart, beautiful cookie, but then she got started on some Harlem outfit, and never have I disagreed more!
Diedre says this outfit needs $18 million to help these people, because they are racked with huge amounts of AIDS, alcoholism, TB, VD, and every known disease, plus filth, homelessness, murder, rape, and crime beyond imagining, plus short life spans, etc. and she rattled off a list of illnesses which would fill a dictionary. In other words, a little Africa, right in New York. A white person wouldn’t want to be caught there at night, or even in the daytime, I am sure. Know what will happen if this outfit gets $18 million? First of all, probably close to half of it will be eaten up with ’administration,’ but if nothing is used for that, where will it go? The dough will go to do a bit of who knows what, and another little bit of something else, but nothing will be changed. The scum who inhabit the slums of New York, or any other city, are there BECAUSE of endless handouts. The endless handouts from built-in-guilt-complex liberals and do-gooders has only created the mess, and has not helped it one itty bitty bit. I used to live in Filthydelphia, and we had season tickets to the Philadelphia Orchestra, which at that time was playing in the wonderful Academy of Music, which has perfect acoustics. Tchaikovsky conducted in it, and it is one of America’s most wonderful buildings. Idiocy reigned supreme when they built a new sterile concert hall across the street, with terrible acoustics and no class or character of any kind.
Mostly, when we were walking down the street to the Academy, we were stopped, and screamed at by occupants of cardboard boxes, who needed a dollar or something so they could buy more booze. Filthy, worthless, smelly trash, is all they were. If all handouts stopped, the scum would die, kill each other, or be shot dead by would be victims who were armed. Gun control is another issue, but handouts by governments or bleeding-heart-liberals and their tax exempt fund raising foundations, make me ill. Before welfare, there were no homeless, no slums, and damned little crime. Cops could shoot to kill, as could homeowners and storekeeps, and they still should. Voluntary handouts by private individuals and churches, are just wonderful, and when we help our kids or friends, that’s the way it should be. We pick out beneficiaries, in other words. We give a kid a few bucks to shovel our walks or cut our grass. We hire a needy person to WORK for us, and usually don’t give anything to tramps or creeps who park on street corners and ask for work, because they are a ’homeless vet,’ or other such nonsense. They wouldn’t work if you offered them a job, because far too many idiots give them money, and they live quite well. I heard the story of a lawyer who ceased ’practicing’ (why do they ’practice?) and took to the streets dressed in rags, and he made a ton of money.
I don’t give to any beggar, and I would hope you wouldn’t either. Just think of the balanced budgets, strong dollars, cleaned up cities, and lowered crime rates, if all federal and other governmental handouts were cut off. I know, “Who will care for the kids and sick?” Maybe their parents? Whatever happened to orphanages? Ask the Mormons about that. They have their own welfare system. Their needy aren’t given handouts. They work on church farms scattered around, and earn their keep and a bit of responsibility as well. Somewhere in my vast library of well over 2,000 books, I have a book on the subject of the welfare of a hundred years ago. It points out that those who got handouts were made to work for them. The welfare was administered by private churches or groups, and a person was made to not only work, but prove he or she really needed it. Nothing was given without payment in the form of WORK. Want a meal? Then chop wood, wash dishes, help with cooking, sweep the floor, shovel the snow, or do something for that meal. Know what? Things were a lot better then. Harlem, in days of old, after the whites left it, was black, crime free, and a place whites used to love to go to get the negro food and entertainment. No more, thanks to federal and other handouts, given because someone wanted it, and never lifted a finger to get it. How we have failed.
Now we have crime infested cities, worthless people sucking the workers dry when they aren’t committing crimes against them, huge taxes on everything, depreciating dollars, and increasing bureaucracy. Just like all the other civilizations which fell into ruin. Now you non handout givers have a great weekend, and a pox on you who give your coins or dollars to beggars.