[net-gold] UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY : LIBERTARIANISM : DISASTERS: A Natural Disasters History Lesson for Ron Paul
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- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:30:04 -0400 (EDT)
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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY :
LIBERTARIANISM :
DISASTERS:
A Natural Disasters History Lesson for Ron Paul
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A Natural Disasters History Lesson for Ron Paul
Posted: 8/30/11 03:54 PM ET
Andy Horowitz
History Ph.D. student, Yale University
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-horowitz/
ron-paul-hurricane-irene_b_942350.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3vas4sb
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As Hurricane Irene pummeled the East Coast this weekend, flooding homes
and businesses, knocking out power, and killing at least ten people, Texas
Congressman and Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul asserted that
the federal government should not help with disaster recovery. Americans,
Paul said, need to "transition out of the dependency on the federal
government." He implied that federal disaster assistance was something
new. "We should be like 1900," he said. "We should be like 1940, 1950,
1960." Without a doubt, the role of the federal government grew
tremendously over the course of the twentieth century. But Paul's
imagination of a mythic American past of individual self-reliance is bad
history. A brief review of major storms shows that these events have long
involved federal help and, in fact, have been catalysts for a more active
government.
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Let's use Congressman Paul's timeline, which starts in 1900. That was the
year a major storm decimated Galveston, in Paul's home state. Because of
the failure of existing structures to deal adequately with rebuilding, the
hurricane prompted citizens to centralize power in the hands of municipal
managers and experts. They wanted to make government more active and
useful in times of crisis. The so-called "commission form" of government
was a key innovation of the Progressive Era, a period conservatives today
look back to as the beginning of the end for local self-sufficiency.
Texans at the time, though, celebrated their new sea wall and other
improvements they achieved through their newly empowered government.
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In 1950, Congress passed the Disaster Relief Act, allowing the President
to authorize federal agencies to offer direct assistance to state and
local governments. In the same year, Congress passed the Federal Civil
Defense Act, creating a national system of first responders for disasters.
Both of those mechanisms helped when Hurricane Audrey struck the Gulf
Coast in 1957. Almost the entirety of Louisiana's Cameron Parish, on the
Texas border, was washed away by a tidal wave. Hundreds died. Experts came
to study the damage as a proxy for nuclear war. But the amazing thing is
that with the hard work and tenacity of local people -- and the efficient
coordination of local, state, and federal resources -- the Parish rebuilt
in under a year. In the 1950s, when the federal government was engaged in
massive infrastructure programs (think of the Eisenhower Interstate
Highway Act, or urban renewal), rebuilding was considered a federal
prerogative.
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By 1965, when Hurricane Betsy became the first American hurricane to cause
over a billion dollars' worth of damage, even intransigent southern
politicians, who for decades had fought against federal involvement in
their states because they rejected federal civil rights initiatives, had
come to see the importance of the federal role in disaster relief.
Louisiana Governor John McKeithen testified before a Congressional
subcommittee that his state had seriously weighed its chances with
seceding a second time after civil rights legislation passed, opting not
to only because the federal government had the atomic bomb. But the active
federal response to Betsy gave him and his fellow Louisianians a more
liberal perspective . . . .
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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