[lbo-talk] Evacuating half a million people

knowknot at mindspring.com knowknot at mindspring.com
Tue Sep 6 15:26:30 PDT 2005


On 9/6/05, Doug Henwood wrote:

> John Lacny wrote:

>

>> 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.

Any bets what portion of whatever is the final congressionally-appropriated sum will actually be (non-corruptly/non-wastefully) paid for the purposes (purportedly) intended?



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