Althouse: "I don’t think the government is doing anything... You can see how many humans are in need."

April 28, 2015

"I don’t think the government is doing anything... You can see how many humans are in need."

"This is the corruption and laziness in government... We look at the news, and every country gives us something, but the Nepal government doesn’t give to us."

13 comments:

Sammy Finkelman said...: The first step should be to stop trying to organize it all.; 4/28/15, 1:21 PM
traditionalguy said...: The government is designed as a one way valve. It takes in money but does not give anything back except maybe not killing you...for now.

The Separation of Powers and Limited Federal powers under a Constitution protected Americans from abuse until we are now held up as a standard for government.

Good luck with that. The UN Communists Bureaucrats now fully blessed by the Catholic Pope has zero use for the USA's model and is replacing it with the Absolute Tyranny model one crisis at a time, leading up to their big lie hoax crisis of Global Warming governance and world religion.; 4/28/15, 1:35 PM
Anonymous said...: Nepal is literally at the end of the earth.

There were few roads before, those that were have slid off the sides of mountains.

There are few airports,

it's high, some helo's dont have the envelope and cant lift at that altitude

they're poor to start with.

I argue, they dont need drinking water. They need water purification tablets and some ROPU's. moving water without roads is tough sledding.

The area looked to be near Gorhka. If the Indians were smart, they'd offer up one or two of their Gurka (same word, same tribe) battalions to spearhead the effort.

Currently there are 39 battalions serving in 7 Gorkha regiments in the Indian Army; 4/28/15, 1:36 PM
TMink said...: Governments never, never, never give as much as they take.

Never.

Trey; 4/28/15, 1:38 PM
Birkel said...: "This is... government."

--fixed; 4/28/15, 1:38 PM
Etienne said...: People are always shocked when the government fails.; 4/28/15, 1:43 PM
Anonymous said...: They need to give them alternative forms of marriage. That'll fix everything.; 4/28/15, 1:59 PM
Anonymous said...: Sad. Prayers for all the victims and their families. The numbers are bound to get larger. Talked to an immigrant from Katmandu this morning who is still awaiting word about his extended family. I was involved in some of the Kyoto relief work ages ago. You get numb.

Hmm. This is a reminder that future catastrophes are unknowable. All the (AGW) rain-dancing and self-flagellation will just make the first world more like a third world Bangladesh when the next unannounced disaster hits - because in the immediate days following a disaster. Where mother earth clearly ignored our worship and sacrifice of our children on the green altar for her. You learn quickly that the only people you have to rely on in any of these catastrophes are yourself, your family and your neighbors. Survival is often a matter of wealth and the amount of power (motive power, electrical power, and not infrequently ammunition and arms) you and your family have under your own control and those nearby that you trust, and who trust you. Perhaps your local government, but they too are often in the same dire situation. Me, I go looking for the local Bishop of the Church of Latter Day Saints because I know he both has supplies and a support and network that is much more practiced then most every civil-defense agency (the few that still exist).

We talk about stress-tests for banks. These disasters are stress tests for civil society and their governments. Which I think pretty much proves that any anti-growth policy is a policy that favors death over life. Imagine Yellowstone cooking off (we're overdue by maybe 100,000 years) - half of the U.S. will be dark, cold and hungry overnight. And even larger disasters are probable in near-geologic time – catastrophes that will make us regret we don't have self-sustaining colonies on the Moon and Mars and under the sea already. So any policy that discourages innovation with maximum exploitation of every resource (human and natural) is a potentially a species-ending mistake (you can even use the "precautionary" principle to argue this). Ditto for anything that interferes with least-of-us voting with our wallet as we decide best (not some bureaucrat).

Some can thump a fruit to tell when it's ripe or rotten. Same here. Watch the Malaysian government respond to a missing airplane. The World Health Organization behaving like the Keystone cops during the Ebola panic, with our own CDC not far behind. New Orleans compared to Homestead Florida. Haiti as an example how corrupt we've become. Institutions that lack competition (or a clear life at risk, family at risk motivation for individual employees) will always rust and fall to petty corruption without interference from the outside. I favor a sunset law, and/or a rule that moves every agency & institution, including congress and the white house, every 24 years to differing depressed areas in the U.S. Like Ysleta, or Detroit, or South East Baltimore. This would at least shake the fleas off - separating the employees who believed in the mission from those that believe only in the institution. Those who are committed to the mission will move and live anywhere. Less so the others (including lobbyists).

Well, I can dream.; 4/28/15, 2:08 PM
BarrySanders20 said...: great stuff, aritai; 4/28/15, 3:05 PM
lemondog said...: Neighbors China and India pledged relief. Are they delivering?; 4/28/15, 3:39 PM
Alex said...: tradguy - I'm sure that during Katrina the FEMA camps were providing much needed assistance.; 4/28/15, 4:33 PM
Anonymous said...: Government is simply the word for the things we fail to do together.; 4/28/15, 10:33 PM
HoodlumDoodlum said...: Nepali folks' greed runs a country in need.; 4/28/15, 11:51 PM