Hello everyone On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:32 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dan: > I'm surprised at your attitude toward the Katrina disaster. I mean, why > condemn the hurricane victims for expecting help from the government. Isn't > it that the point and purpose of the Federal Emergency Management Agency? > Isn't Bush infamous for appointing a totally unqualified person to lead that > agency? The phrase, "Heck of a job, Brownie" still haunts my brain.
Hi David Well, I wasn't really condemning the Katrina victims as much as drawing comparisions. And no, I am not a Bush fan. Still, don't we have some responsibility to take care of ourselves? dmb: > As I understand it, the administration took that disaster as an opportunity > to show the world how the free market could deal with disaster situations > better than the government can. They certainly failed to do that. Free market > disaster relief? I don't know how anyone expected to profit unless they were > paid handsomely by the government and or rescue only people with money to pay > for their services. Anyway, as a result of the attempt, the government did > NOT do what it usually does and what everyone reasonably expected it to do > again. Nobody had any reason to think that FEMA would act differently than it > had in many similar situations in the past. To dismiss their complaints as > the result of their diseased expectations is kinda mean. It strikes me as a > pretty harsh case of adding insult to injury. Dan: >From what I understand, the situation in Japan isn't any better. But the way the people are conducting themselves is better. That is the comparision I was attempting to make. Again, I am not sure when we suddenly began expecting the government to take care of us. Some years ago, 1996 if memory serves, my community was flooded by a so-called 100 year flood. It rained like it would never stop. Then the water rose so fast that we barely had time to grab a few clothes and get out... it just started bubbling up out of the ground. It was the damnest thing I've ever seen. We lost everything. The government didn't come to our rescue. Oh sure, they declared it a disaster area so low-cost federal loans were made available to those who like to jump through hoops. But that was it. It was up to us to go back in and clean up 2 feet of mud from our living rooms and bedrooms, tear out all the drywall and floors, and start over fresh. It took a while but we did it. I guess I don't understand this need to be taken care of. Maybe I've been taking care of myself too long. > > My two cents, And mine, Dan Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
