Quote Originally Posted by pomtzu View Post

How do you tell these folks to just deal with it?
No, I don't ask them to deal with it.

I want them to rise above it.

Having been thru a few 'natural disasters" I know enogh not to depend on the city, state or government for aid?

After the 94 Earthquake I remember seeing - will use this term with a great amount of respect - wetbacks working their arses off, cleaning out homes and yards of earthquake rubble.

The ones that had no cars, piled the stuff out on the street. The ones with cars charged a fair fee to load up the rubble and take it to the dump.

The impotent knuckleheads left the piles of trash in front of their homes for the city to pick up. It was MONTHS before you could drive down a street and not see a pile of brick, drywall, wood and stuff that wasn't EQ damage on the streets.

The people who wanted to move on with life didn't wait for anyone to show up and help.

Most of the people who got FEMA money spent it on other things, not home repair..

What I am suggesting is that people make the most of a situation.....

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Let's put this into terms we all can appreciate?


During the winter I read stories of people who could not shovel a drive or walkway in front of their homes.

They had to wait for a neighbor or relative to shovel the snow.

Wait for your local government to come out.

What do they tell you?

They'll clear out the street and gutter- sidewalk and path to your house?

Pay more taxes!

Sometimes you get a bunch of kids, who have no fear of work, get together and start up a little neighborhood company.

I'll shovel the snow on your walkway, once a week for 10 dollars.

Those are the kids that end up with a 500 jillion dollar company.

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If people deal with it? They are the folks you see on the news complaining about the assistance from the government.

You'll never hear about the people who do thins for themselves.

They don't have time to talk .

they are rebuilding their lives?