Small-minded government
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purpletigronhttp://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v437/n7056/full/437169a.html
Nature 437, 169 (8 September 2005) | doi: 10.1038/437169a
"Last week's debacle in New Orleans highlights failings not just in the Bush administration, but in how the United States chooses to govern itself.
The term 'natural disaster' doesn't really do justice to the scenes that unfolded in the southern United States last week. For a start, the main cause of death in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will have been drowning as a result of the flooding in New Orleans that sprang from a widely anticipated failure of the city's flood defences. There is an overwhelming sense that the human calamity that befell the city was avoidable and represents a failure of the US government to protect its most vulnerable citizens.
..."
Nature 437, 169 (8 September 2005) | doi: 10.1038/437169a
"Last week's debacle in New Orleans highlights failings not just in the Bush administration, but in how the United States chooses to govern itself.
The term 'natural disaster' doesn't really do justice to the scenes that unfolded in the southern United States last week. For a start, the main cause of death in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will have been drowning as a result of the flooding in New Orleans that sprang from a widely anticipated failure of the city's flood defences. There is an overwhelming sense that the human calamity that befell the city was avoidable and represents a failure of the US government to protect its most vulnerable citizens.
..."
