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Hurricanes show us who the hypocrites are
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You may have heard this old saying: There are no atheists in foxholes.That aphorism dates back to World War II and means that when the bullets are flying at you and the artillery shells are landing all around you, you will most likely be praying to some supreme deity to save your hide.A similar saying derives from that one: There are no Libertarians waiting on rooftops to be rescued from floods.That saying would hit home to any resident of Houston, Texas, who recently huddled on their rooftop hoping that some government agency would come by with a boat or helicopter to rescue them from the floods unleashed by Hurricane Harvey.For years, I have heard my Libertarian and conservative friends insist that all governments are corrupt and incompetent. We don’t need governments, they contend. If you’ll just get government out of the way and let the free market do its work, all our problems will be solved, they say.This attitude was most forcibly expressed by Ronald Reagan when he said: “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”Hurricanes and other natural disasters serve as a useful reminder that there are some things that can best be handled by the people who make up our local, state, and federal governments.
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