[lit-ideas] Re: Katrina and the French Heat Wave
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:14:07 -0700
Teemu bit:
> One was about failing to evacuate people and
>provide relief, the other about failing to check up on
>the elderly.
>Dodging responsibility is a common theme
though.
ck: Which makes me wonder what we Americans and Euros deem a government's
"responsibility." An essential question, in this time of "nation-building"
and redefined democracies under neocon rule. Is it the government's
responsibility to check up on elderly folks, or is it the family's and
church's? But is a government charged with evacuating *healthy* people to
safety? Why? Some people have access to boats--or air conditioners, or
whatever they might need in a crisis. Others don't. Is it up to the
government to equalize disparities during a natural disaster--but not at all
times? Such simple questions define humanity.
It's voting day here. I'm off to cast my lot with Arnold's next adversary.
later,
Carol
----- Original Message -----
From: "Teemu Pyyluoma" <teme17@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:41 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Katrina and the French Heat Wave
> For starters, the French government at the time and
> Chirac in particular were never popular. (One of the
> funny recuring episodes pre-Iraq war was an American
> telling a Frenchman that Chirac is corrupt! Really...)
> Based on what little I know of French political
> history, it seems to me that French governments in
> general are unpopular.
>
> And it was complete different kind of catastrophe than
> Katrina. One was about failing to evacuate people and
> provide relief, the other about failing to check up on
> the elderly. Dodging responsibility is a common theme
> though.
>
>
> Yours,
> Teemu
> Helsinki, Finland
>
>
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