The Road Home: Punishing the Self-Reliant
Harry Shearer has a wonderful (even if depressing) post at the Huffington Post you should take a look at:
New Orleanians get no shortage of hortatory messages about self-reliance from other parts of the nation they thought they belonged to. So Sunday’s Times-Picayune sends the message right back. Here’s a story full of as many touchstones of self-reliance as one can bear—a Charity Hospital nurse, a widow who raised nine children, children who came to her aid when the floods struck, children who rebuilt their own home and rental properties with no government assistance. Read the journey.
