Generations of some segments of the New Orleans population have grown up living off you, me and other working and taxpaying USA citizens. These individuals have a welfare mentality.

They are the ones who stayed in New Orleans after they had been told to evacuate the city, crying out for the government to help them, to give them food, drink and shelter. And they are the ones who are protesting the destruction of New Orleans’ housing projects, something that should have been done decades ago, and threatening to demonstrate at the bowl football games.

The bowl games are good for all of New Orleans. They bring people and their money into the city. The visitors spend a lot of money. And that cash flow eventually benefits every New Orleanian.

But do the welfare mentality freeloaders ... living off city, state and federal government entitlement programs ... care? No. They only know one thing: “gimme!”

What the welfare mentality freeloaders need to learn: Education plus hard work equals $UCCE$$!”

From among all of the insanity came a simple voice of reason.

While welfare mentality activists ... frustrated by a recent unanimous vote of the New Orleans City Council to demolish the public housing projects ... were saying they may use the city’s role in the Bowl Championship Series to draw new attention to their cause with at least one organized effort aimed to assemble demonstrators at the Louisiana Superdome for the Sugar Bowl and BCS Championship games in early January.

Samika Boyd, 24, said she grew up in public housing and told WDSU-TV NewsChannel 6 that she hopes any demonstrations put the spotlight on something other than the buildings themselves.

“If you’re going to get out here and fight, go out here and fight for the right cause,” she said. “With an education, you won’t have to perpetuate this cycle.”

Amen! You are so right, Samika.

With an education and hard work the welfare mentality freeloaders can get off government entitlement benefits and become successful and productive members of USA society. They can get off the public dole. But they have to want to, and so many of them do not.

The welfare mentality freeloaders want us, the US, to support and take care of them. They want to just hang around, waiting for their next government check and/or handout. They would rather demonstrate, biting the hand that feeds them, than to actually work.

They are a disgrace to themselves, their families, their race, their fellow New Orleanians, USA citizens everywhere and all humanity.

Dan Hanchey is a Northsider.