Operation Citizen Relief Update…
Well, things aren’t looking to well for this. I heard back from the trucking company. They also repeated the montra of “we are giving to the Red Cross, the Red Cross says that it’s best we go through them. The Red Cross tells us that other people trying to help can sometimes cause more traffic congestion and hamper resuce efforts.”
Of course they would say that! Because that’s what the Red Cross tells them to say! Besides, how else would they get they’re tax breaks? So this is it. This is what the country is comming to. It seems ‘we the people’ are conditioned to let big daddy government to handle eveything……
… guess I was ranting again. I will give this until 3pm today.
Some more pathetic thoughts:
My brother called up a local wholesale distributor and inquired about the price of a skid of bottled water. For 1 skid of water; 60 cases, each case holding 32-16oz bottles. Thats 60×32=1,920 bottles of water. Keep in mind this is for Just 1 skid.
The price: about $270.
I live in Wisconsin. Now according to the US Census bureau the population of Wisconsin for 2004 is 5,509,026 people.
If every citizen in WI were to give $1 to a single emergency fund:
The math: 5,509,026/$270 = 20,403. This would mean we could purchase 20,403 skids of water. Which is equivalent to (20,403 x 1,920) = 39,173,760 bottles of water…. from 1 state!
My point – how about a new tax. $1 per citizen per state. To go into a never changing very watched over account. Maybe even divide the states responsibilities respectively into other categories of food and other provisions.
There would be no more begging for disaster money. Then all we would need to do is each state would need to have their goods in a ready to go format. All we would need to do is hook the containers up to helicopters and drop them where needed, without waiting 3 days to plan how were are going to plan, on getting the plan to help people!
That said – who would manage such an account? I believe the states would be in charge of their own. It’s already been proven that the federal government doesn’t know how to handle money…
…ok ther I go ranting again. I’m just disheartened by all this.