> 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?