More and more evidence continues to surface that we must give decentralized disaster relief more freedom in responding to crises. It seems as though worries over jurisdiction, licenses, and other bureaucratic nonsense hampered various small scale initiatives to provide assistance (article). Could there really be something to the wisdom of free-market economists' saying that a central authority has no hope of efficiently (or even workably) coordinating all relevant information and making the right decisions? Ok, so why do people clamor for stronger government response and protection after disasters? That's right, because then they do not have to take responsibility for their own actions and safety.
Apparently there is also a dispute over whether Amtrak was available to help move people out of the city (article), substantial emergency funds were unaccounted for or mis-spent before the fact (here and here), and my favorite of all religious groups in America - the envirowackos - strike again, causing more death and destruction (article).
More red tape (article). Just makes me upset.
No real profound economic thoughts, just been doing lots of reading lately - mostly about voting methods, rent-seeking, and various other facets of public economics and public choice. Played football (among other things) with friends from church yesterday, very sore all over today. So much fun....
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