Posted on 09/05/2006 11:00:06 PM PDT by Lorianne
Nah, FEMA should just contract out disaster relief and coordination to WalMart. They'd do it better.
When Rita hit, Lowes was opened within 36 hours and Wal-Mart the next day. When we were standing in line to get into Lowes I heard a lot of talk about how people wouldn't forget who was there to help. They might be big boxes and cold, impersonal corporations--but they were there!
Neither had more than some small generators providing enough electricity to run cash registers and a few lights, but they opened their doors and let people buy what they needed to survive. Tons of other stores weren't opened for weeks.
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