nowhres

I would be more apt to help someone I see walking down the road with an empty gas can, than I would someone just sitting on their ***, waiting on someone to just show up with the gas

Green2000

I need to watch what I type so as to not break the rules and get banned

jimmy21669

I will leave it at this...since ya'll are just cruel:

According to Mirriam Webster:

Citizen: a native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it.

End of fricking story.

I'm out of this conversation now.

nowhres

So Sandy was a govt funded storm?

jimmy21669

Where the **** did that come from?....cause your path of logic lost me at the fork in the road....

dukie564

everyone there is entitled for help after the storm, there's no arguing that. I'm just appalled that the person in that video had obviously done nothing to prepare for it, even though she had a ton of warning.

dukie564

and take it easy guys - this is the internet and arguing is pointless on the internet.

and i don't want to have to do any cleanup because i'm lazy

nowhres

"Citizen: a native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it."

Trying to figure out the logic behind you posting the definition of, "citizen"..

nowhres

You started it you ****er.

Lead by example

Lol

jimmy21669

There are those of us in our society who are weak. I am not talking about INTENTIONALLY weak, because I too have no patience for that BS....but genuinely weak.

They have lost the ability to know how to prepare, don't have resources...whatever the case may be.

I think it reflects poorly on us as a nation if we do not thanklessly reach out to help our weak in time of need.

Ok...now I'm done...stop baiting me...lol

nowhres

She seemed to have plenty of energy when the cameras showed up...

jimmy21669

Simply to state...we ARE entitled to protection from it.

Just like our military fights our wars, not us...so too can they help in times of extreme need, like a natural disaster.

It's what is expected, as defined by being a citizen.

It is what we get for paying taxes and supporting a government.

It is not a "sense" of entitlement. It actually IS one.

jimmy21669

Don't worry. Scot and I know how this works...lol

I don't actually get mad.

nowhres

So again, you are saying that Sandy was govt funded, or a govt conspiracy to wipe out the NE?

Protection from it, "it" being the govt., not a hurricane.

jimmy21669

From it meaning being given by. Not "Protect me FROM the government" but "protection provided BY the government"

If I got a gift FROM you....

Boy you took that in a whole nother direction....lol