Indeed, I am so amazed that in the aftermath of Hurricane, Super Storm Sandy that left-leaning socialist thinking political pundits are using this horrible storm as a launching point to purport into the mass media that this is exactly why we need a big government. That is to say that we need enormous agencies and big government to help rebuild and save people from catastrophe. Well, personally, I'd say that is nonsense, in fact the reality is just the opposite. Let me explain.
There was a troubling piece in Government Executive News on November 1, 2012 titled; "GSA rushes supplies to Sandy response teams," by Charles S. Clark and you might want to look that article up and check out the picture attached.
Now then let me ask you all something; if the government can't even supply its own teams trying to help out, then how the hell is it supposed to help the people its suppose to serve? It can't, and just look at the accompanying picture. This is your government at work, they put in the dikes, drew up the flood plans, and engineered this potential failure, wake up the government cannot protect you, it cannot even supply itself to keep the people there it has sent in.
Look the truck terminals, ports, and many rail heads -- if not the tracks leading into the area which had the most damage -- are still out, and most will be for 3-5 days. Power is expected to be back in most areas by November 11, but the storm occurred on October 29-30. FEMA and first responders have hijacked most of the remaining bandwidth on the 3G and 4G wireless networks for their own uses. Thus, businesses cannot help themselves or get their services up and running.
So when left-leaning folks say that business and the free-market cannot move mountains to fix the damage or restore society and civilization, it's not that they can't, it's that they are not allowed too. Meanwhile, the government, the most bureaucratic organization on Earth comes in to take control to feed their own engine up and beyond the needs of the people, and then they will duly deliver to the people what "they deem" appropriate, not what the citizens or those in need, truly want or need.
When it comes to disasters in the US, the government doesn't do nearly as much as they claim they are doing, and on those rare occasions they do, it's usually through the help of businesses, or individuals which just happen to be amongst their ranks, who probably could have done much more through the free-market to help out. Look, I know for a fact what I'm talking about here. I've been amongst the private sector in times of chaos and calamity.
I can't tell you how many times the government stopped us from serving those who were truly in need, blocking off roads, or preventing passage, and even threatening arrest if I helped my fellow man. It's BS what goes on, just ask anyone in the know, and those who think otherwise, they don't know, they just spout off this big government BS, and demand that everyone else feed the bureaucracy with tax monies. I'm quite frankly tired of it.
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