Re: Katrina and the Evacuation: Market Failure?

2006-05-14 Thread Anton Sherwood
(I tried to send this on September 7 from my other account; didn't notice until now that it was rejected for that reason.) Michael Giesbrecht wrote: . . . I am engaged in arguments with people who are claiming that after the regional government threw in the towel and told everyone to fend for

Re: Katrina and the Evacuation: Market Failure?

2005-09-07 Thread Fred Foldvary
The government (local, State, and Federal)appropriated responsibility for the Mississippi River levy system, the drainage systems, the pumping systems, the road ways, and the bridges, but apparently, they left it to the market to provide the service of evacuating the poor and the infirm. ---