Responding to Catastrophe

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Originally Posted by Griff

Looking at Japan right now, I'm wondering how America would respond to a similar disaster. We came together after 9/11 but a lot of us believe that coming together was hijacked for a different agenda. We had a serious financial crisis which, arguably, was not dealt with seriously and now a government debt crisis is turning into another left / right opposition to reality festival. Would we have the stones to survive a natural disaster of the scale that Japan is dealing with? We're probably better at dealing with immediate disasters, but I'm having my doubts about America's vision.

At the risk of sounding highly cynical...
We would provided there was money to be made by doing it. I'm sure Bechtel and Halliburton, et al would be all too happy tp pitch in if the price were right. Otherwise it's gonna be school bake sales and church rummage sales.