Wednesday 26 May 2010

 
Mr. President, Defend America
The problem, Dylan, is that you think the government in general - and the President in particular - can actually do something, The "people who caused it" are the only ones with any expertise and even they don't know how to fix it. The military don't know, the state and local and officials one the ground don't know, so who in the federal government do you think could do anything other than slow things down and make them worse? 
       On sending in the military: have the state governors's asked? If they haven't, the president cannot send the military without violating the constitution of the United States and any general would be required to consider it an illegal order. Have the states asked the feds to nationalise their national guard units? Because if they have not, the President cannot order troop one to do anything
       Basically, Dylan, all this call to "do something" is frustration about the best we can do being not good enough and then looking for someone to blame for it. Especially someone other than ourselves. Because, deep down, we know that it is our own attitude to oil and our own complacency that have caused this - or at least allowed it to come about. Financial crisis: ditto.

       Besides carping from the sidelines, Dylan, what are you doing to fix the problem?  

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