You can now read John Tierney’s account of how Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club succeeded where FEMA and the Red Cross failed. Tim Worstal has posted the NYT John Tierney column so that you can read it here without being a Times Select Subscriber. John Tierney wrote:
If you mention the Red Cross or FEMA to people in Slidell, you hear rants about help that didn't arrive and phone lines that are always busy. If you mention state or national politicians, you hear obscenities.But if you visit the Wal-Mart and the Sam's Club stores here, you hear shoppers who have been without power for weeks marveling that there are still generators in stock (and priced at $304.04). You hear about the trucks that rolled in right after the hurricane and the stuff the stores gave away: chain saws and boots for rescue workers, sheets and clothes for shelters, water and ice for the public.
Please give Tierney a read. His opinions, if headed, might help us avoid another disaster.
Thanks, Tim. I don’t know how you got around the Times Select subscriber only policy. As I wrote yesterday, I don’t object to the good old capitalist NYT trying to derive income from it’s columns. I just find that a $49.95 Times Select subscription is too expensive for the few items that I would read.
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