How can you be SLOW, when you act BEFORE a disaster in an unprecedented manner??
How can a guy like Forbes completely ignore the facts? What's to gain??
he doesn't know the facts, that's why.
"How can a guy like Forbes completely ignore the facts?"
When people raise government to the status of "higher power" that can and should do anything and everything, and they are suddenly faced with the bald truth that this just ain't so -- they will believe all kinds of irrational things rather than give up their "religion"...
Unfortunately, this is an endemic disease of politicians and pundits, of all political flavors.