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...major city on a low-lying swamp in a hurricane corridor is about as intelligent as building a house of cards on a bowling lane. The only way to absolutely protect New Orleans from a Katrina-like situation ever happening again is never to rebuild. It is wrong to blame the Bush Administration for decades of inaction by many, many administrations. Low taxes are not to blame, and less government is not to blame. A society that promotes dependence on government to always get it out of difficulties has only itself to blame. The problems caused in the wake...
...Germany's Opportunity Surely the outcome of the elections in Germany provides a golden opportunity for the two largest parties to form a grand coalition [Oct. 3]. They can work to institute urgently needed economic reforms without taking exclusive blame for the temporary pain they will cause. The two parties could each appoint an equal number of experts to an economic panel that decides what the most suitable reforms are. Tony Pupkewitz Johannesburg...
...federal minimum wage. There are plenty of possible reasons why Kerry didn’t capitalize on the living wage movement in Florida. Many, including Jenn Kern, national organizer for the Association of Communities Organizing for Reform Now (ACORN), the group that spearheaded the Florida living wage campaign, blame Kerry. “Kerry,” says Kern, “failed to seize the opportunity to use the issue to connect with voters.” Regardless of who is responsible for Kerry’s loss in Florida, one thing is clear: a living wage initiative...
Germany's Opportunity Surely the outcome of the elections in Germany provides a golden opportunity for the two largest parties to form a grand coalition [Oct. 3]. They can work to institute urgently needed economic reforms without taking exclusive blame for the temporary pain they will cause. The two parties could each appoint an equal number of experts to an economic panel that decides what the most suitable reforms are. Tony Pupkewitz Johannesburg...
...army. Thousands of volunteers headed into the mountains, carrying shovels, pickaxes and iron rods to dig for survivors. Down in the main cities, well-wishers donated tents, blankets, food and even cloth for burial shrouds. Among the first responders were militant Islamic groups, who seized on the catastrophe to blame Musharraf's alliance with the U.S. in the war on terrorism for incurring Allah's wrath. In Chehla Bandi village, members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an outlawed group sympathetic to al-Qaeda, cooked food, helped bury the dead and shoveled through the debris to find the living. "They saved...