Yesterday on a busy downtown Atlanta street a collection of activists gathered together to protest conditions for the “poor.” According to these activists, fish were better off than the city’s poor because the fish have a “$200 million home and the poor have nothing. These activists (socialists) were referring to the Georgia Aquarium, which opened last fall. Home Depot Co-Founder Bernie Marcus used his own money to finance construction of what is now the world’s largest aquarium. Apparently, Marcus should have used this money to build homes for the “poor.” Apparently Marcus should have given these people yet another handout with which to squander.

What these advocates want is nothing more than wealth re-distribution (i.e., socialism). “From each according to his worth…to each according to his sloth and lack of motivation to take risks and achieve on his (or her) own volition.”

Since opening to great fanfare last fall, the Georgia Aquarium has become a lighting rod for socialists and others in pursuit of their various agendas. Even before the facility opened, advocates for the homeless, were demanding that Aquarium officials hire the homeless to work in the new tourist attraction. If the Aquarium refused, advocates threatened to shut the facility down with massive protests.

Marcus and his team were not intimidated and rightly so. The homeless, by and large, by virtue of their station in life, have demonstrated a lack of responsibility and commitment to hard-work which makes them poor candidates to be hired for even the most basic of tasks and the same can be said of the poor at large.

Rather than deriding others who have made the sacrifices and commitments in order to achieve, advocates for the poor should ask themselves why the individuals they champion continue to make decisions which ensure their continued poverty, why they continue to have children they can’t afford, why they reject education and refuse to teach their children the value of education and why they refuse certain jobs deemed beneath them. What the poor of Atlanta and every other city need is an awakening, not a handout.
http://www.georgiaaquarium.org/