Private vs Government help with Katrina
In Harry Browne's 1996, Why Government Doesn't Work, Harry argues that government cannot work. They are so riddled in red tape, and they don't even have an incentive to do a good job, or to find a better way to do it. It is not even the people involved, it is the system that causes the problems. Most people have waited in a long lineat the BMV. Many people have been put on hold for a long time when calling the IRS, and only to receive wrong information. When we deal with Government agencies on a personal level, we often see how ineffciant they are. Why do we assume that the ones that we don't deal with would be any better? Why would you rely on such a system to make your life better?
Katrina will certainly go down in history as one of the worst hurricanes. We forget most names of hurricanes. We remember the name Andrew, because of the devistation it did to Florida in 92. Katrina will be like that. What is worse is that the videos coming from New Orleans have a haunting resemblence to the videos of the Tsunami. I also find it weird that aid from FEMA (our national agency that is suppossed to help out people who are victims of big disasters) cannot make its way to the Superdome and the Convention Center; however, reporters are down there (they are the ones filming everything).
While listening to a radio station this morning, they just finished a big fundraiser to get aid to the Mississippi Delta region. In 13 hours, they brought in 40 tons of food (or a number around there) and $200,000 in donations. The trucks left Cincinnati at 9:00pm on Thursday. I would guess that it got there by noon. By nightfall, a lot of people will have lifesaving food and clean water. The federal government, after 4 days, is finally starting to provide help. So why are we sending our tax money to Washington DC so that they can send it right back to the cities to do a bad job at helping victims of catastrophies? It seems like the private sector has found a much faster and cheaper way to help out. You see, that radio station had no redtape to trip over. Why do we demand that government help us out when businesses seem to be doing a better job at providing help?
Katrina will certainly go down in history as one of the worst hurricanes. We forget most names of hurricanes. We remember the name Andrew, because of the devistation it did to Florida in 92. Katrina will be like that. What is worse is that the videos coming from New Orleans have a haunting resemblence to the videos of the Tsunami. I also find it weird that aid from FEMA (our national agency that is suppossed to help out people who are victims of big disasters) cannot make its way to the Superdome and the Convention Center; however, reporters are down there (they are the ones filming everything).
While listening to a radio station this morning, they just finished a big fundraiser to get aid to the Mississippi Delta region. In 13 hours, they brought in 40 tons of food (or a number around there) and $200,000 in donations. The trucks left Cincinnati at 9:00pm on Thursday. I would guess that it got there by noon. By nightfall, a lot of people will have lifesaving food and clean water. The federal government, after 4 days, is finally starting to provide help. So why are we sending our tax money to Washington DC so that they can send it right back to the cities to do a bad job at helping victims of catastrophies? It seems like the private sector has found a much faster and cheaper way to help out. You see, that radio station had no redtape to trip over. Why do we demand that government help us out when businesses seem to be doing a better job at providing help?
posted by CincinnatiLibertarian at 1:47 PM
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