The era of American exceptionalism is over (part 253 in a continuing series)

[baxil]

 
Massive earthquake shakes China [5/12/08]: Within the day, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao -- who is a geologist by training -- is personally on site to supervise rescue efforts and shout words of encouragement to trapped students.

Massive hurricane floods New Orleans [8/29/05]: Bush plays guitar, Condi goes shoe shopping, and the FEMA head jokes

Comments

Let the market handle it!

[kevynjacobs]

No! You're wrong! New Orleans showed how perfectly the free market and private business can cope with every situation that might ever happen, for ever and ever! The free market must come before everything else! FEMA needs to be privatized! Those Chinese, they're COMMIES, that's why their government has to step in to rescue the quake victims, because they don't believe in letting the market take care of everything, etc. etc.

(I need to go disinfect my fingers now, for typing all that garbage...)

Re: Let the market handle it!

[baxil]

Invisible hand, you're doing a heckuva job!

[heron61]

Here's the best comment I've seen about the US reaction to all this.

[frameacloud]

Painful.

[joysweeper]

*sigh* I don't even like China, but they're pretty much reacting the way a government should, at least according to this and the little I've heard elsewhere. It's depressing that this isn't the norm. Burma... That's even more depressing. Man...