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Price of Gasoline Approaches Cost of Lives
Sep. 2nd, 2005 04:13 pmI welcome higher gas prices with open arms for a couple of reasons. First it's likely this is a temporary gouge and prices will reduce to their previously high levels before the hurricane. This means that in the long run the price of public transit, shipping and business in general will likely stay unaffected. But many people will be encouraged to reduce their energy use if only to save money.
Now as for the cause, the vast human suffering and generally terribleness of Hurricane Katrina... it is shameful. I wonder how much longer the average American populace has to be demonstrated that the current federal administration is failing at the very aspect that they spin as their strength? 9/11 was not the first event in a new age of safety and security in the world but the first major failing of US national safety and security.
Slate magazine has a particularly concise and scathing review of Department of Homeland Security's current screw-up in and about New Orleans. Also worth your time if you are not a native to the area effected or would like a little history review is their bit on the city of New Orleans. I think it's clear to most people that there is a socio-economic component to the scope of this disaster as well as the ineffectual federal response.
I refuse to sit in front of CNN with a box of Kleenex, sobbing for all the lives and whatnot. That is so entirely ineffectual and precisely what they want us to do. The news is selling us our own misery, designed to leave us depressed and jonesing for an SSRI. Perhaps it could be interpreted as callous, and I supposed that'd be an accurate evaluation. These are calloused times and I'm building a mighty fine carapace.
Now as for the cause, the vast human suffering and generally terribleness of Hurricane Katrina... it is shameful. I wonder how much longer the average American populace has to be demonstrated that the current federal administration is failing at the very aspect that they spin as their strength? 9/11 was not the first event in a new age of safety and security in the world but the first major failing of US national safety and security.
Slate magazine has a particularly concise and scathing review of Department of Homeland Security's current screw-up in and about New Orleans. Also worth your time if you are not a native to the area effected or would like a little history review is their bit on the city of New Orleans. I think it's clear to most people that there is a socio-economic component to the scope of this disaster as well as the ineffectual federal response.
I refuse to sit in front of CNN with a box of Kleenex, sobbing for all the lives and whatnot. That is so entirely ineffectual and precisely what they want us to do. The news is selling us our own misery, designed to leave us depressed and jonesing for an SSRI. Perhaps it could be interpreted as callous, and I supposed that'd be an accurate evaluation. These are calloused times and I'm building a mighty fine carapace.
