Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 21:30:10 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Tyler Trafford wrote: > Jim Larson wrote: >> 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? > > Yes, they are exactly the same. I have always suspected. -- Jim .