Outrageous headline mirrors Republican world view

[central scrutinizer]

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/12/28/e1.bz.quake.1228.html

Poverty lessens impact of tsunamis

excerpt:

NEW YORK - The devastation in southern Asian areas hit by tsunami waves on Sunday had far less of an economic impact than it might have, given the extreme poverty of many of the regions.

One of the biggest immediate concerns was the potential impact on tourism.

end excerpt...

In other words, thank God that these were desperately poor areas so there was no insurance company exposure. What a stroke of luck that these people had nothing to lose!!!! I am sure these people who lost everything including their families will take great solace in knowing that they are not burdening the rest of us with their losses.

Bush to tsunami victims: "Oh, you are poor and brown, take a hike, we don't give a shit. How soon will the child sex brothels reopen? My brother Neil doesn't want to change his travel plans."

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Shit... good thing they're poor...

...less to lose. :grr::grr:

That's the fucked-up worldview of the freeper, for sure!

[JohnOneillsMemory]

17. Psy-ops: "Disaster=natural and a chance for profiteering-um, Capitalism!"

This psy-ops tactic is used against environmentalists, too.
This is Social Darwinism-'thinning the herd'-justification for death which translates into good old Nazi eugenics in national policy.

This is to deliberately minimize EMPATHY FOR FOREIGNERS 'cause the White House is sure gonna kill lots more of them and needs the American public to see it as inevitable 'progress' and not weep for them.

Everything in the media is a chance for psychological operations to make you think and feel the way corporations want you to.

Every...damn...thing.

Look out for it. "What would Hitler do?" That's what the press's job is, set you up to ACCEPT ATROCITY.

[lonestarnot]

2. Heartless freaks!

[SariesNightly]

3. Repukes are taught since birth..

.. to be dead inside. Compassion is something alien to them.

[InvisibleBallots]

4. how repulsive

[Kathy in Cambridge]

5. That is truly disgusting

what kind of people are these? they devalue human life and always take the side of business/management. :puke:

[SmokingJacket]

6. "How's it going to affect MEEEEEE??"

That's all they care about.

Will the tsunami wreck the stock market?

Is there a way I can make money here?

:puke:

[SheilaT]

7. And as we all become desperately poor

here in the Bush regime, the loss of social security, any kind of meaningful health care, job security, none of these will matter as much if we don't have as much to lose.

I feel much better now.

[Krupskaya]

8. On NPR this morning...

they were talking to some guy who said, "These things are actually good for poor areas, because then there's a huge influx of rebuilding, and then people get jobs! So in the long run, properties will be improved and employment will go up..."

Oh. OK, then.

[Aristus]

10. Yeah, nothing says "Happy days are here again" like

63,000 deaths!

Monsters.

<shakes head sadly>

[bleedingheart]

9. "when you have nothing, starting over isn't so hard"

that is the main point...and it is disgusting.

[gratuitous]

11. It's the "lucky ducky" syndrome

Somewhere, some poor person might get something that he or she didn't sweat blood to attain. A good parking space near the store entrance. An extra $41 last month in their disability payment. A clerk counted out the wrong change, and they got an extra buck. Such grievous instances of financial redistribution of wealth must be tracked down and redressed at once!

Did you know that when poor people die, they can pass on every last penny they've managed to save to their survivors? But a man who robbed, cheated and stole from others all his life to amass a personal fortune of $150 million can't just hand that on to his progeny? Those poor trust fund kids have to begin life at a serious disadvantage by taking only $90 million out of dear old dad's pile! That's double taxation! Or something. Wait, the kids didn't pay a dime in taxes on anything they got.

Well, I'm sure that any of those poor people who lost everything won't get a dime more in compensation than is absolutely necessary. Folks like Dick Cheney (who "earned" over $175,000 last year from Halliburton, and picked up an additional $90,000 in tax cuts he voted for himself) will dole out the aid with an eye-dropper to make sure that none of those lucky duckies actually "profit" from this disaster.

[librechik]

12. warning was withheld because of threat to tourism

therefore, the tourism industry's importance must be downplayed (what tourism???)to protect against demands of accountability. At the same time the industry will be bolstered by reports that everything will be back up and running as soon as the trash is removed from the beaches.

[PST]

13. we need more homeless people in Florida

to 'soften the economic impact' of the next hurricane season..

[Sara Beverley]

14. Americans will start paying attention when they can't buy the cheap goods

that were produced in these countries. Look at the labels on you clothes, tools, and houseware items. American companies have moved many of their businesses to these areas to take advantage of the cheap labor.

[Plaid Adder]

15. How about, "Poverty Kills Tens of Thousands"?

Or we could balance the two and rewrite that as, "Poverty Means Tsunami Exacts Huge Toll In Human Life, Not So Much In Terms of $$".

Reminds me of a fellow-student who once observed, after a hurricane had killed hundreds of people in a trailer park, "I always thought that was God's way of cleaning up the gene pool."

@#$!,

The Plaid Adder

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. how disgusting!

i wonder whether people realize when a mother loses a child, it hurts the same whether they are rich or poor!