Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 21:24:57 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Tyler Trafford wrote: > 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. They require periodic maintenance and filter replacement? -- Jim .