I only get ‘Political’ during elections, so don’t take this as ‘politics’. It’s not. What’s happened in Japan, and what’s required to fix it, is not a political issue. It’s a human issue.
Japan is dealing with nothing less than a full scale catastrophe. More people have already been confirmed dead than the entire 9/11 Attack on the United States, including the aftermath the First Responders faced.
The World has the resources to help them, immediately. The fact that this is NOT a global effort is discouraging and frustrating.
I’m not talking about the hero’s at The Red Cross and the countless other Volunteer Organizations and Fundraising that’s going on all over. Heroic, yes. But let’s face it. It’s baby steps and a drop in the bucket compared to what the people of Japan actually need.
They need to evacuate a place the size of Montana and they don’t have enough gasoline to fuel their cars. We can handle that.
Saudi Arabia is 5,000 miles away. British Petroleum has probably got ships in the North Atlantic right now. China has gasoline and a whole population of engineers. If they put just 2 or 3 of their best people on it, I bet they could figure out how to get Japan the gasoline they need. It doesn’t seem like an insurmountable task when everyone’s involved.
They need food and drinkable water.
Honestly, this seems like the basics to me. How did the World get so fucked up that Diane Sawyer is reporting on a couple of million people who are living on a cup of rice and a bowl of soup?
How about instead, for the next two weeks, we stop our Wars, and our Civil Unrest and our Military Coup’s and all that bullshit between Palestine and Israel that’s been going on for a thousand years, and let’s all focus on getting those people some fucking food.
There’s two grocery stores filled with food within a mile of my house. We got planes, we got trucks, we got man power. Shit, we could give this one task to the United States Marine Corps and those people would be fed properly by the end of the day.
I know, it’s frustrating. We text $10 to the Red Cross and we send them our prayers, because we can’t do anything else.
The reason this isn’t already happening, is because of money, which is the lubricant that keeps all Politics in business. No one knows who to send the bill to.
Another simple solution that any 4th Grader will point out to you in a minute. Who’s going to pay for it?
Add it all up, then divide it all up. The financial burden on the individual tax payer would be a lot less than you think. If it costs a Trillion US Dollars to bail out Japan in a month, divided by the ‘Top 28’ and it’s around $35 Billion per country.
Each tax payer in the United States would have to pay around $120 to help Japan right this instant.
Who do I give my credit card number to?
It’s sad that the Politics involved in doing what is necessary and what is right is insurmountable. The people of Japan will be trying to figure out what do with the bodies piled up on their shore line before the United States Government could get a plan like this even approved, much less implemented.
While this isn’t a political issue, it’s something you should think about come election season, no matter what country you live in.
When those people come around wanting your vote, ask them about their ‘Human Initiative’.
End of ‘Rant’.
Before I go, I want to point out that all phone calls made on the Time Warner network to or from Japan are completely FREE until April 15th.
I’ve done a lot of bitching about Time Warner as a communications provider, so I feel it’s only right to recognize the company for their contribution to the ‘Human Initiative’.
- Mark
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