Polite society says not to point fingers, but without facing consequences, how can people learn? Legitimately placing blame is a key to better humanity.
Michael, your comments only fortify what I have thought for decades. To bring in government to solve a problem, create anything that may improve the condition of man, or to explore new horizons will only result in disappointment. Any government solution will cost more, take more time, and perform poorly, when compared to private solutions The end of this is not to try to find good people as even when out founding fathers constructed our nation, they knew that it would work only if it were managed by angels. They also knew that men are not angels,as is so plainly demonstrated each and every day.
Michael, you are hinting to this but is good to spell it out.
If we use the very successful corporate model developed over time to deal with this kind of situations, placing blame is just one step. The organization has to complete the process performing root cause analysis and to develop and then to implement corrective actions and ultimately a system which prevents the issue to repeat.
Many times a task force is set up to do this and to supervise the completion until the issue is solved, the corrective actions are implemented and the system is created.
Instead of this American has become a kindergarten where factions point their finger at one another and try to catch the other side making a mistake, after which they run to the audience and try to get some political benefit from it.
If somebody would try to devise the best solution for burning the place down, this would be it.
In the 40 years since I came to America from an Eastern European Communist country, and I admired how well America was managed, America has become a textbook example of how not to do things, with finger pointing being one of the symptoms, completed by lying, mass media propaganda doing this professionally, and a plethora of other Communist like poisonous actions including mass indoctrination, political correctness, promotion of Marxism in all its forms, and culminating with things like the use of Justice as a political weapon and the process being the punishment, which make me feel that I travelled back in time to where I came from.
America should be very grateful to the Founding Fathers who have foreseen this, and have put in place a system to deal with it. But while this system may prevent total collapse for now, is completely overwhelmed and full of cracks which multiply each day, until it will ultimately fail unless dramatic action is taken, which I am very skeptical that will happen.
I hope I am wrong and once again America will raise above the challenge and will overcome it. Each one of us has a duty to do everything possible to make this happen, and you are a great example of somebody who does this whose example we should follow.
The premise of the post is exactly that. Sometimes the person who tries to ignore it needs to have their nose rubbed in their mistake by those it impacts.
People always said I shouldn't let "politics" make a difference in my attitude toward people. And I always said: "It's not "politics" it's not about "Party" or even "Trump"--I'm arguing for morality. I'm arguing for basic human decency. I'm arguing for what I see are basic premises. I'm arguing for survival.
Michael, I agree with your premise...the only change I would make would be to replace 'blame' (which has a distinctly negative connotation and evokes defensiveness) with 'responsibility'. Semantics? Sure, but the result should be the same.
That's not really true is it? While DeSantis spent time, money and effort on hurricane readiness, California state and local leaders ultimately created all the conditions that resulted in this disaster, many of these problems have been known for years. Clearing brush is a known response - not done. Prescribed burns a known response - not done. Building more reservoirs and capturing more water - a known response - not done. Less than a year ago, California had record rain and snow - and most of the excess water went into the sea. As a matter of fact, money was pulled from firefighting in LA County and statewide to spend on other things - like DEI programs, high speed rail to nowhere and others. Never mind that the California Coastal Commission has not, and will not, approve any desalinization plants to tap the Pacific Ocean for water.
Plus the risks in California go beyond the wildfires - the rains will come, as will the landslides - so this disaster has a fast moving component and a delayed component that magnifies the long term damage this lack of preparedness causes.
Newsome and Bass are at the head of this snake, so that is where the accountability falls.
So not the same at all.
Covid was an unknown actor, wildfires have raged in the West of millennia. We had no defense against a manipulated virus that leaked from a lab in China. Trump had no vaccine or therapeutics and the public health cabals worked against him at every turn - Biden had multiple vaccines and the full support of the public health community and more than twice the people died under his regime (almost 900,000). As it turns out, there probably was little we could do given the fact that the vaccines do not prevent Covid and actually injure some people who were at very low risk from the virus.
So, yes, please continue to make these arguments. They are very helpful in illustrating the differences between California and Florida.
Michael, your comments only fortify what I have thought for decades. To bring in government to solve a problem, create anything that may improve the condition of man, or to explore new horizons will only result in disappointment. Any government solution will cost more, take more time, and perform poorly, when compared to private solutions The end of this is not to try to find good people as even when out founding fathers constructed our nation, they knew that it would work only if it were managed by angels. They also knew that men are not angels,as is so plainly demonstrated each and every day.
Michael, you are hinting to this but is good to spell it out.
If we use the very successful corporate model developed over time to deal with this kind of situations, placing blame is just one step. The organization has to complete the process performing root cause analysis and to develop and then to implement corrective actions and ultimately a system which prevents the issue to repeat.
Many times a task force is set up to do this and to supervise the completion until the issue is solved, the corrective actions are implemented and the system is created.
Instead of this American has become a kindergarten where factions point their finger at one another and try to catch the other side making a mistake, after which they run to the audience and try to get some political benefit from it.
If somebody would try to devise the best solution for burning the place down, this would be it.
In the 40 years since I came to America from an Eastern European Communist country, and I admired how well America was managed, America has become a textbook example of how not to do things, with finger pointing being one of the symptoms, completed by lying, mass media propaganda doing this professionally, and a plethora of other Communist like poisonous actions including mass indoctrination, political correctness, promotion of Marxism in all its forms, and culminating with things like the use of Justice as a political weapon and the process being the punishment, which make me feel that I travelled back in time to where I came from.
America should be very grateful to the Founding Fathers who have foreseen this, and have put in place a system to deal with it. But while this system may prevent total collapse for now, is completely overwhelmed and full of cracks which multiply each day, until it will ultimately fail unless dramatic action is taken, which I am very skeptical that will happen.
I hope I am wrong and once again America will raise above the challenge and will overcome it. Each one of us has a duty to do everything possible to make this happen, and you are a great example of somebody who does this whose example we should follow.
Whistling past creates the graveyard.
Ahhh, I somewhat disagree. Ignoring consequences leads to the conclusion by the guilty party, "I can get away with it!"
The premise of the post is exactly that. Sometimes the person who tries to ignore it needs to have their nose rubbed in their mistake by those it impacts.
People always said I shouldn't let "politics" make a difference in my attitude toward people. And I always said: "It's not "politics" it's not about "Party" or even "Trump"--I'm arguing for morality. I'm arguing for basic human decency. I'm arguing for what I see are basic premises. I'm arguing for survival.
Michael, I agree with your premise...the only change I would make would be to replace 'blame' (which has a distinctly negative connotation and evokes defensiveness) with 'responsibility'. Semantics? Sure, but the result should be the same.
That's not really true is it? While DeSantis spent time, money and effort on hurricane readiness, California state and local leaders ultimately created all the conditions that resulted in this disaster, many of these problems have been known for years. Clearing brush is a known response - not done. Prescribed burns a known response - not done. Building more reservoirs and capturing more water - a known response - not done. Less than a year ago, California had record rain and snow - and most of the excess water went into the sea. As a matter of fact, money was pulled from firefighting in LA County and statewide to spend on other things - like DEI programs, high speed rail to nowhere and others. Never mind that the California Coastal Commission has not, and will not, approve any desalinization plants to tap the Pacific Ocean for water.
Plus the risks in California go beyond the wildfires - the rains will come, as will the landslides - so this disaster has a fast moving component and a delayed component that magnifies the long term damage this lack of preparedness causes.
Newsome and Bass are at the head of this snake, so that is where the accountability falls.
So not the same at all.
Covid was an unknown actor, wildfires have raged in the West of millennia. We had no defense against a manipulated virus that leaked from a lab in China. Trump had no vaccine or therapeutics and the public health cabals worked against him at every turn - Biden had multiple vaccines and the full support of the public health community and more than twice the people died under his regime (almost 900,000). As it turns out, there probably was little we could do given the fact that the vaccines do not prevent Covid and actually injure some people who were at very low risk from the virus.
So, yes, please continue to make these arguments. They are very helpful in illustrating the differences between California and Florida.