Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : Tyler Trafford Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 21:23:43 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > "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. Analogies are like vacuums. -- Tyler Trafford Don't ever slam a door; you might want to go back. .