Disasters Create Bigger, Not Better, Government
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Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Whew. That was the general reactionwhen President Barack Obama told waterlogged New Jersey that “weare here for you.” After all, these days, a president isexpected to “be here.”
Federal rescue is the American Way. Being there startswith helping to clear the flooded metropolitan-area tunnelsbetween New Jersey and New York. But the concept extends tobridges, roads and all the other infrastructure challenges upand down the Atlantic coast after Hurricane Sandy.