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Originally Posted by Kitsune
Imagine what would happen to the US if we spent a few $billion on burying utility lines rather than spending hundreds of $billions liberating people who did not want to be liberated.
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Uh, well, that was some unexpected logic. Did you just tie hurricane-induced power outtages with the Iraq war on a random whim or is there more to this than I'm reading?
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Its called guns or butter. Either we spend $billions on a airplane that did not have a function for decades - the B-1 bomber never worked for nearly a generation - or we build schools. We could be rebuilding our infastructure OR we could liberate people who don't want to be liberated.
Many are now advocating we enlarge our military. Its too small. Screw the people in FL. We will drop a massive debt on their kids and leave them to keep replacing their power lines. Better to invest $400billion on Iraq.
Currently with a president who literally perverts science and undermines in four years what professional diplomats and generals accomplished over 40 years - then little solutions such as making FL hurricane resistant can not happen. Do we rescue the world when the world does not even want to be saved - or do we advance America. Sorry if I view from a larger perspective. But I am asking what will we be doing 10 years from now - still putting electric lines back up on poles while enlarging a military that is already larger than the next five countries combined. Fighting how many more Arab insurgents while killing off another 800 Americans every year? This neocon thinking is always a first step to destruction of a world leading power. It starts when we don't even improve our own infastructure.
Some people see damage in FL as something to be repeatedly repaired. I see it as a mistake that we should be eliminating now so that it does not happen again. But that means we must have our people working where they can be productive - not wasting time trying to restore electricity where Saddam had no problem doing same.