---

Civil Society Steps Up
As the local, state, and federal government has abdicated its responsibility to protect its people, evil Big Business has taken up the slack. We've already noted here how Wal-Mart managed to get thirteen tractor trailers full of supplies to hurricane victims even as the federal government insisted that accessing the area was impossible (only to be turned away by FEMA). The Washington Post takes note of what else corporate America has done...

---

Wal-Mart
Yet another example not only of the federal government failing to fulfill the responsibilities it assigned to itself, but as with the Red Cross, getting in the way of private efforts to provide relief....

...Again, abolutely criminal acts on the part of federal officials. The government let people die not only through its inaction, but it killed more people by preventing private entities from taking up matters on their own.

The next time someone tries to make the argument that only government can help in times like these, remind them that it is private actors who were on the scene while the federal government played bureaucratic games. That is, until the federal government stepped in and stopped them.