[extropy-chat] Fill it in a pave it over

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:

> --- Dan Clemmensen <dgc at cox.net> wrote:
> > Does the government have any legal obligation to turn the pumps
> back
> > on?
> 
> Maybe not, but it's a suicidal (career-wise) mayor who ignores the
> very
> vocal wishes of a majority of the city's voters.  Or maybe the pumps
> are controlled by the county or state - either of whom has similar
> motivation to do so.
> 

Ah, well, you are assuming that he still has a city to get reelected
in, and that he isn't maneuvering for multiple tens of billions of
dollars of federal reconstruction aid to be at his disposal to give
contracts and jobs to anybody willing to support his candidacy. Can you
say 'slush fund', or 'kick-back', or 'cronyism'? He's simply following
the pattern established by dozens of third world thugs receiving
foreign aid from Uncle Sugar.
> 
> Few if any of us are New Orleans residents.  Most of them don't want
> minimal government involvement - they might like lower taxes, but
> they *definitely* want the pumps running. Quite a few of them
disagree
> with
> logic, too: they want stuff they don't have to pay for, and strongly
> resist any attempts to impose reality on their fantasy (and tend to
> suffer the consequences thereof, quite unwillingly).

Particularly wrt the NOLA levee boards, which have a well established
reputation of corruption, cronyism, nepotism, and other off political
activities and little in the way of actual accomplishments.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
Founder, Constitution Park Foundation:
http://constitutionpark.blogspot.com
Personal/political blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


	
		
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