>The spectacle of government officials appealing for volunteers and
>donations to the Red Cross and so on is sickening beyond words for
>any decent person, when clearly it was the government's
>responsibility to get on this immediately.
Even now, they're crowing about the $400m pledge to various charities. That's lovely, but in a few hours, even our dumbass Congress appropriated $10.5b, or 26 times as much. There's really no substitute for the public sector in something like this.
Doug