"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
In Sandy's Wake: Stories Statists Need to Explain
There’s another side of the disaster relief story that deserves more attention as well, and that’s the part about government failure—of waste and incompetence, of obstruction of private aid, of callous indifference to the losses of the victims.
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