Weve all heard the arguments post-Katrina and perhaps weve made the remarks ourselves: Why cant these people just pull themselves up by their bootstraps? They just sit and wait for government handouts. Okay, so it was bad, but why cant they see the opportunities this situation offers? Overcoming difficulty and pioneering ahead is the American way, after all.
Its natural that the situation would be viewed this way because the perspective most often expressed publicly represents the upper-middle
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