Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : RR Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 21:45:30 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. Ted Hence the phrase "*America's* Tsunami". I don't think anybody using the phrase is equating us with the poorest countries of the world, but it's a unique event given the circumstances and location. -- RR "It's been my experience that every time I think I know 'where it's at,' it's really somewhere else." - William Holden - S.O.B. .