Texas just experienced Harvey, and as I write this Florida
is about to experience Irma. The results
will be thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands, of lives forever altered,
property losses measured in the billions of dollars, and a recovery cycle
likely to take a decade or so. I expect
as a nation we will get through this, we will help each other, and it is
fundamental to our nature to move from the bad to the better, and hopefully
toward the good. That said, we see in
this and every disaster, the evil and greed of mankind manifest within
individuals, corporations and the government itself.
It is for this reason I grieve. We condemn the companies who will seek profit
over compassion when they raise prices to suck the most out of those who are
living in fear and panic. As we enter the recovery phases there will be
insurance companies who will nickel and dime the insured until they give up in
frustration, or the unscrupulous contractors flooding into the areas promising
to help the victims restore their homes, but who are only interested in taking
as much from the victims as possible.
These are all horrendous examples of man’s inhumanity to their fellow
men, but they pale in comparison to the graft and greed we see in our
politicians.
We expect the Congress and the President to work together
to provide funds to those in need. The
house votes for $8 Billion (that is billion with a B), for initial relief for Texas (and maybe FL), the
Senate doubles that amount.
Those who resist are called heartless SOBs. I wonder how many politicians will pad their
retirement funds from this taxpayer largess.
Spending other people’s money is easy as long as you can
take your cut.
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