Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 21:30:20 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Tyler Trafford wrote in news:3nmhufF2a02bU1@individual.net: > 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. Abhorant but still true despite what people might want to believe? Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .