we spent how much federal money on the tsumani? 200 billion? 60 billion? not even a fraction of that.
is our only measure of compassion now, how much we spend on this? look, everyone agrees regarding the spending to repair the public infrastructure - roads, bridges, ports, levees. but if the Bush "formula" for how individual relief will be provided falls apart, and it simply becomes giant waves of handouts, then where are we? in the name of compassion, we will simply do nothing different then the welfare state has done since the 1960s.
So let's condemn the entire premise now.