[extropy-chat] New Orleans - A 40 Year Disaster

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Dirk Bruere <dirk.bruere at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/12/05, nvitamore at austin.rr.com <nvitamore at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> > 
> > THE TRUTH ABOUT NEW ORLEANS
> > An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of
> the
> > Welfare State
> > 
> > by Robert Tracinski
> > Sep 02, 2005
> > 
> > "It has taken four long days for state and federal officials to
> figure out
> > how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. I can't blame them,
> because
> > it has also taken me four long days to figure out what is going on
> there.
> > The reason is that the events there make no sense if you think that
> we are
> > confronting a natural disaster. "
> > 
> > Read on ...
> > 
> > http://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-9_4_05_RT.html
> > http://tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1026
> > 
> > 
> And here's my succinct analysis
> New Orleans = Mogadishu

Worse. Imagine if Mogadishans had come to expect food aid shipments
from the west as their right.

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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