Comments on: All Disaster, Only Part Natural

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By: Brock

Brock — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:14:59 +0000

It is a common mistake to confuse a country’s level of redistribution with its system of economic organization, but it is a mistake.

I hope that you will be calling on conservatives, as well as your fellow libertarians, to stop smearing modest income redistribution policies, such as the minimum wage, with the label “socialism”.

By: Dain

Dain — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:45:04 +0000

Justin,

Unfortunately the reasons for the bumbling and inept response to Katrina (for instance) have little to do with the kind of variance found in the preferred public policy of any major candidate. Nobody is pushing a plan to abolish FEMA, most especially the public.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:11:10 +0000

It’s presumably also a function of our differing abilities to affect the quality of government. If I read that bad government exacerbated a disaster in the United States, I have a number of responses, starting with my vote. If I read that bad government exacerbated a disaster in Burma, that has very little to do with my response.

By: Dain

Dain — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:30:10 +0000

I wonder how much the impact of UN and US sanctions contributed to the destruction of Nargis.