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  • Daily Kos: Oklahoma Tornado Casualties Show That ‘Free Market Conservatism Kills’

    05/25/2013 1:20:30 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 54 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | May 25, 2013 | 08:36 | Tom Johnson
    If you were looking for righty-bashing blog posts related to the Moore, Oklahoma disaster, Daily Kos was the place to be this past Wednesday. Ian Reifowitz argued that conservatives’ childish hostility to government regulation boosted the tornado’s death toll because neither state nor local law requires safe rooms or shelters, and that absent a mandate, such life-saving structures quite often won’t get built. Reifowitz wrote:Free market conservatism kills? Yes, that’s right…[T]here were no rules in Moore or anywhere else in Oklahoma mandating that buildings…have so-called “safe rooms” or underground shelters to protect people during a storm…