Seat Belt Violation

All I've heard, over the Katrina hurricane incident, are the questions of:

"What or who is responsible?"

"Why did the result happen?"

"Was there anything that could have been done to prevent it?"

"Why did it take so long for help to arrive?"

The most common type of answer, by watching and reading the news, seems to be that,

"it's everyone else's fault but mine"!

Well guess what, the true answer is quite simple, but of which no one in government or the citizens living in that "hole in the ground" are going to say, let alone admit fault with! Our government has spent a tremendous amount of time, effort and money in to "seat belt enforcement". It's like it's the number one threat to human life in this country. There are arguments, pro and con, for the dumb law. Some people's lives have "been saved" because of seat belt use. Some people have lost their lives, because of seat belt use, etc., etc. Whoopee do, there is no comparison to lives lost not using a seat belt, to the New Orleans debacle. With the seat belt law, our government and law-enforcement, feel that we are so ignorant that we have to be protected from ourselves. We are incapable of knowing right from wrong and acting accordingly. Our government has to "act" in our defense, otherwise we won't do it. Well, let's say for the moment that they're right.

There are three faults for the catastrophe in New Orleans and the last one is "hurricane" of which we had no control! The first one is "governments misplaced priorities". The second is the American citizens lack of common sense and intelligence. Not considering the third, which we're not able to control, which is a hurricane, lets look at the other two. If we have to be protected from ourselves, why did our government "allow" people to live in that "suicidal hole in the ground"? They knew it was a death trap, but politics would prevent them from doing anything about it. They should have either moved the people out, "filled up that suicide hole" and then let people back in or moved them out permanently. The argument that, everything's been pretty much ok up to now and not seeing anything changing that, is ludicrous. It's not any different than an individual deciding to commit suicide by jumping off of a building. Everything's just fine while they're falling, but eventually they're going to hit the ground. New Orleans has been "falling" for a long time and now they have finally ended the "trip" by "hitting the ground". Now if government wasn't going to do anything about this "suicide" trip, the American citizen should have used common sense and realized that living in a hole-in-the-ground with water over your head on three sides is dangerous and not something that rational people would do. That's where the general ignorance of many in this great country of America comes to light.

Now if our government would have put forth as much effort into the New Orleans situation as they did the seat belt law, the damage done would have been much, much less. Second if common sense and intelligence would have replaced ignorance………………, enough said!

It's governments duty to protect us from threats outside of our own control and the American citizen's duty to protect themselves from themselves. It is the responsibility of government to "govern" and our citizens to "live the life of their choice" as long as it doesn't harm others. If the choice of our citizens is to put your life in "harms way", then that's their choice and not the responsibility of government. It is also not the responsibility of the common sense citizens in this country to support and rebuild the lives of those who choose to "commit suicide" and fail. The old adage that says, "you reap what you sow", is still true today. Accept the results of your choices and not expect others to "pick you back up" when you live "stupid" and "fall down"!