Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 21:18:30 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape "RR" wrote in news:bLnRe.214661$gL1.142863 @tornado.texas.rr.com: > John I wrote: > >>> I see somebody stated that it was America's tsunami. I know people >>> have been killed and homes lost but blimey over react much? I know >>> hundred odd dead but there was warning and the U.S. has a hell of a >>> lot better response and rebuilding facilities. >>> Ted >>> >>> >>> >> >> The strongest theme for the failure to evacuate story is simple >> poverty: >> >> http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2005/08/index.html#007548 > > Precisely. A hurricane hitting an affluent area is a bad thing, no doubt. > But when it hits a place where people have no money - hell, most of these > people didn't even have cars, so vacating the city was a difficult if not > impossible prospect - it's a whole 'nother ballgame. To say this is > "America's Tsunami" is hardly an exaggeration. > A couple of hundred dead = Thousand upon thousand dead. Hardly compares. More people probably die of cancer a day in the US. You live in the richest nation in the world with the greatist ability to look after the people displaced. The tsunami not only wiped out thousands of people but completely wrecked the infrastructure of some of the poorest countries in the area. These were people with fuck all to begin with and they lost everything with little chance of getting it back. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .