Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Why I'm not contributing to Katrina relief
I'll be declining Orin Kerr's invitation to aid in the Katrina relief effort. I suppose that makes me a selfish, heartless prick, even by libertarian/neocon standards. Here's why:
- "Let the bastards freeze in the dark"
- These victims knowingly lived in a hurricane-prone region, on land that is below sea level
- The federal government is going to contribute millions of dollars, which came from me and other taxpayers, for "emergency relief"
- That program was rife with corruption after last year's Florida hurricanes
- I'll be personally contributing one or two thousand dollars extra this year to petroleum companies, some of which extra, including the current spike, will be blamed on Katrina
- I'm an unemployed software engineer, while the industry is claiming visa quotas must be lifted due to a desperate labor shortage
Comments:
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
