The most thorough blog coverage of Hurricane Katrina that I’ve seen thus far is from Brendan Loy, whose “Irish Trojan’s Blog” I had never seen until earlier this evening. Behold the mystery and wonder of the Internet.
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Check out this gem, from a news article posted in a newsgroup:
“It’s been 36 years since Hurricane Betsy buried New Orleans 8 feet deep. Since then a deteriorating ecosystem and increased development
have left the city in an ever more precarious position. Yet the problem went unaddressed for decades by a laissez-faire government, experts
said. “To some extent, I think we’ve been lulled to sleep,” said Marc Levitan, director of Louisiana State University’s hurricane center.
A government which spends billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money on levees, pumps, etc., and which spends billions more on disaster relief every time private property built in danger zones is damaged by irregular, but quite normal natural phenomema – which should be 100% covered by private insurance – that’s a laissez faire government, according to “experts”.
What a long, uphill battle which Austrians and Libertarians are facing.
Louisiana’s AG is already on the warpath:
Even in the face of disaster, the faith that state agents place in violence remains unaffected.
They better put a stop to that price gouging, or suppliers might have more incentive to store up an adequate inventory in advance next time. Why, if nothing is done, people from outside the affected areas might even help out with shortages, and we certainly can’t have that, because… interstate trade deficits and stuff… yeah.
It becomes more difficult to mock the statists when the violent stupidity that falls out of their mouths can’t possibly be exaggerated any further through sarcasm.
“Even in the face of disaster, the faith that state agents place in violence remains unaffected.”
If the director of LSU’s hurricane center is to be believed, the problem comes from not enough state violence in the past. More violence in the future is certainly the solution! Besides, if violence weren’t the answer to everything, what role would there be for the State?
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