MarkTTU
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Hey Tim, before I respond I just thought I'd say while we may not agree on things I always learn something from these discussions and hope you and others realize nothing I'm saying should be taken personally.
Now, you said:
As for comments about the stock market I'll just throw this out:
The public stock market already contains the controls and regulations that have been talked about here and Lancie1 is correct, it is not a zero-sum game.
Now, you said:
You are quite correct, I sure would hope that if I wound up on a rooftop that someone would come by and help me out. At the same time if someone told be that there was a very good chance that I would wind up on a rooftop or facing a wall of water (or fire) a few days (or hours) before I'd make sure to leave the area. Also if I did wind up on that rooftop I wouldn't just hang out and wait for help to arrive if I was still able bodied (true, not all were, but lots of them were).TimothyMoulder said:...if I did wind up on a rooftop for any reason, I'd still hope someone would happen by with a boat. So would you.
This is very different than Katrina and New Orleans. There is a difference between being unlucky when the "experts" are wrong about a storm track and being unlucky when they're right. Believe it or not the "experts" are enough correct in their predictions a large enough percentage of the time that I for one will listen to them. Its not a perfect science, but to use an analogy my boss likes to use; on a foggy night would you prefer to drive your car with your eyes open or closed? Eyes open may not be much better than eyes closed, but why would you choose to not take every little advantage available to you when your life is on the line?TimothyMoulder said:Then the storm took a sudden veer eastward and clobbered our southen neighbors. They didn't evacuate - it wasn't supposed to hit them. Alot of people died.
When dealing with these things, it's a complete ****-shoot. Tampa was less than 24 hours from promised destruction before we were spared. Alot of Orleanians were hoping for the same, but they were wrong.
What was our federal government's response time from the moment the tidal wave hit Sri Lanka to the time our people started active rescues on the ground there? What was it for Katrina? I think that you will find that we got to New Orleans a bit faster than we got to Sri Lanka. As I recall even the media didn't say federal aid wasn't present in New Orleans, their complaint was that there wasn't enough of it.TimothyMoulder said:The armed forces. We had military rescue to the tidal wave victims in Sri Lanka quicker than we were picking survivors off rooftops in New Orleans. How asinine is that?
As for comments about the stock market I'll just throw this out:
The public stock market already contains the controls and regulations that have been talked about here and Lancie1 is correct, it is not a zero-sum game.