My God you have to admire the Japanese people’s calm and orderly response to this disaster. Just think if this was happening in the United States.
We can learn from the Japanese people.
I am not sure how their political system works. That is one problem we have.
Take a look at Hurricane Katrina. President Bush made a total mess out of that.
On top of that you had a large number of people blaming the mostly black people of New Orleans. There is no question that Fox News and right wing Republicans would have felt different if it had been Dallas and not New Orleans.
You also had Republicans blaming the state government of Louisiana and pointing out that it was Democrats in control of the state. You had state leaders blaming the federal government.
The looting and violence that took place in New Orleans shows the difference in American cities and states and Japan.
We need to study what took place with Hurricane Katrina and see what we can do to help change things and improve things.
The people of the United States opened up their hearts and pocket books to the people effected by Hurricane Katrina. Texas took in more than 300,000 refugees and made them welcome.
There is nothing wrong with the American people. I think there is something very wrong with the way our system is working.
I fear things are getting much worst for us. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The rich people feel “I got mine” and fuck the rest of you.
Our public infrastructure is getting older and older and is falling apart and there is no real desire by the American people to fix it.
We have never funded a real social safety net for Americans and the very limited one we have is about to be cut big time.
It is again politics that is the problem. It is also our system. Republicans also want zero regulations. Then our system of government makes it very hard. You have states and cities that do not want anyone telling them what to do. You have people like the Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) that wants to make Texas friendly to big corporations so he does not want any federal/national regulations on things like air and water. He wants each state to control things like that.
One problem is money. The Republicans have been very successful in making not only “Democrats” a bad word they have also made “taxes” a bad word.
They even started a major war costing tons of money and refused to tax people to pay for the war. (I am talking about the Iraq war.)
I think we got some real hard times ahead for all of us. I hope we are not tested like the people of Japan. I hope when our time comes that we can act more like the people of Japan.
Japanese people are teaching us many lessons I hope we can learn from them.
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