09-12-2005, 05:06 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-12-2005, 05:12 AM by Chaerophon.)
Wow. The one time that I would have thought that the knee-jerk libertarian impulses would have been temporarily quelled, they jump out in full force.
Two thoughts:
Higher corporate tax rates would translate into more centralized government money to allocate in times of stress such as these. Welfare leads to weakness? Better welfare programs would have helped the ghettoized minority poor to get a leg up. They wouldn't have been trapped in their own city. End result? Far fewer dead. Sorry, proof is in the pudding. No other industrialized nation has such an epidemic of ghettoized poor, and contrary to the belief of many, the U.S. is not alone in its diversity.
I doubt if we will be relying, depending on the likes of UNICEF and the Red Cross when we get our 'Big One' (predicted earthquake) here in Vancouver.
Two: shooting at cops?!?! Shooting at the national guard?!?! The first instinct in New Orleans was for everyone to arm themselves, and start shooting. Contrary to Doc's claims, what was the result? Anarchy. NOT discipline and control. I'll bet top dollar that a hell of a lot more innocents died as a result of the proliferation of (often looted) guns than did criminals. Gun culture led to a grisly and unruly result. Under a more controlled, less prolific regime, legal owners could still protect their property, and there wouldn't be automatic weapons in store windows waiting to be snapped up.
I'm done.
Everyone else has an opinion, so there's mine. Piss on it if you'd like.
Two thoughts:
Higher corporate tax rates would translate into more centralized government money to allocate in times of stress such as these. Welfare leads to weakness? Better welfare programs would have helped the ghettoized minority poor to get a leg up. They wouldn't have been trapped in their own city. End result? Far fewer dead. Sorry, proof is in the pudding. No other industrialized nation has such an epidemic of ghettoized poor, and contrary to the belief of many, the U.S. is not alone in its diversity.
I doubt if we will be relying, depending on the likes of UNICEF and the Red Cross when we get our 'Big One' (predicted earthquake) here in Vancouver.
Two: shooting at cops?!?! Shooting at the national guard?!?! The first instinct in New Orleans was for everyone to arm themselves, and start shooting. Contrary to Doc's claims, what was the result? Anarchy. NOT discipline and control. I'll bet top dollar that a hell of a lot more innocents died as a result of the proliferation of (often looted) guns than did criminals. Gun culture led to a grisly and unruly result. Under a more controlled, less prolific regime, legal owners could still protect their property, and there wouldn't be automatic weapons in store windows waiting to be snapped up.
I'm done.
Everyone else has an opinion, so there's mine. Piss on it if you'd like.
But whate'er I be,
Nor I, nor any man that is,
With nothing shall be pleased till he be eased
With being nothing.
William Shakespeare - Richard II
Nor I, nor any man that is,
With nothing shall be pleased till he be eased
With being nothing.
William Shakespeare - Richard II