Today at Sam's Club, the man in front of me was buying three five-pound blocks of mozzarella cheese, two five-pound bags of pepperoni, 16 pizza boxes, and a canister of crushed red pepper. You tell me what he does for a living. The people behind also seemed to be running a small business or stocking vending machines based on their own purchases. And then there's me, being very judicious about what I buy because a person living by oneself and a store like that is a strange combination.
Let's go back to the last post. I don't 'get' the president's commitment to the hurricane rebuilding efforts, but I do get his vision when it comes to Iraq. I at least understand the idea and the vision and the hope to change the whole Middle East and the willingness to continue the war for that purpose despite any currently low opinions or tarnished short-term legacy. This is his chance to change the world and leave a long term legacy. Rebuilding New Orleans isn't going to be any sort of legacy, because people don't remember things for going back to normal, or some semblance thereof. People remember change, not what it was like to go back to the store to buy groceries.
I'll admit that the entire New Orleans thing is a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking. The city was prepared to a point and the pumps and levees were designed to a point. But that point was exceeded by a low probability, though entirely plausible and perhaps expected, event. Part of me says this because California is prepared for an earthquake, to a point. Maybe one day, the mother of all quakes will come and everyone will Monday morning quarterback and say that the state should never have been built up along fault zones so much. It's not like the people and state did not prepare for earthquakes. We just won't know if we're prepared enough until it happens.
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