Fire and class
Bob Morris @ Oct 25th 2007 00:15 - Category: Unfiled
In poorer parts of L.A., the County sets a fixed budget in advance for fighting fires. Yet fire budgets in wealthier areas have no such limitations. Why is this?
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John Couzin on 25 Oct 2007 at 6:24 am #
As always in this corrupt and unjust system, those with the money call the shots, from the upper middle class to the Soros’s. They set the pattern, the rest of us lick our wounds.
DJ on 25 Oct 2007 at 8:48 am #
It’s unjust, but not unusual. In any system, those with the power call the shots. In this system it happens to be that those with money have the power. I’ve yet to see any system in which there’s not a power-hungry elite– except in certain limited community-based situations. Examples would be the New England town meetng, the intentional community, the gramswaraj-based systems of South Asia.
These don’t work well in national and urban settings. One truism suggests itself: Size breeds abuse.