Subj : Re: Larry King
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 19:19:08

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:
> RR wrote:
>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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. 

It will be thousand upon thousand.  Wait and see.  They haven't counted 
the dead yet because they are trying to use the resources that are 
available to rescue the living.  The dead can't be saved, the living can.

The up side for the tsunami victims, if you can really have one, was that 
the water would naturally recede.  The water in New Orleans will not 
naturally recede.  Every bit of it will have to be pumped out.  Yeah, it 
is stupid to put a city below sea level that is surrounded on all sides by 
water but, hey, we didn't put it there.  We inherited it.

>  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. 

You just described more of inner city New Orleans than you realize.

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