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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?
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To: Andrew Martin who wrote (11689)2/14/1999 12:15:00 AM
From: dfloydr  Read Replies (1) of 13994
 
A thought:

Executive orders such as you cite allow our government to respond to hurricanes, floods and the likes a lot better than most. For example, when Japan had their last big earthquake a friend of mine was over there and no one knew what to do. None of the required authority was in place to get anyone to do anything. Nothing happened for six or eight days and then only in the most haphazzard way. Almost the first help to arrive were a team of Swiss with trained sniffer dogs. They had to come from half way around the world. The Local authorities were all locked in arguments over budgets and authority and boundries ...blah, blah, blah ... while people were dying.

Maybe there are benefits to having such orders in place. True, they look pretty frightening if they were to fall into the hands of an American Hitler or an American Stalin.
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