The hurricane Sandy is a big catastrophe. Even the "Big Apple" couldn't prevent it. What the US and state government can do is minimizing the damage, and maximizing the preparation for the relief effort after the storm.
The department responsible for such thing, FEMA, until now do an excellent job. Here is one big pattern that everyone notice: FEMA SUCKS ASS everytime the POTUS is a Republican! Yes, not only during the Bush Jr., FEMA also sucks during his father's time, Clinton fixed it, Jr. ruined it again, now Obama had fixed it again.
How so? Simple, because Republicans think that Government IS the problem, and dismantle FEMA everytime they got a chance.
They hated Obama and government so much that their hate override the fact that government CAN do good like coordinating disaster relief. When governor Christie praised Obama, the GOP was enraged. ENRAGED!! How dare you saying that Obama and/or government can do good! HOW DARE YOU! People even start talking that Christie practically made a political hara-kiri with that praise. YES, they are that nuts! Fortunately, in my observation, in every comment section of such news, people just shaked their heads in their disbelief that a governor was criticized when he praised his president. There is hope indeed. If Christie is a genuine moderate Republican, there is hope that we can get our old GOP back, the party of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Eisenhower, etc., not the party of Bachmann, Gingrich, Akin, etc.
Back to FEMA, I remember Paul Krugman once said something like:
"There is a saying that there is no atheist in foxhole. Many dispute that. Actually, there is one more accurate statement: there is no libertarian in a crisis."
Amen. Sandy just prove that prof. Krugman. Time for the libertarian to suck up their myth and return to the real world. Time to make sure they STAY AWAY from the POTUS office at least for another 4 years.
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