Spreading poverty and bird flu
Here is one consequence of government policy that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer (think George W. Bush, et al): farmers in Turkey have sick chickens. The government is supposed to come and help dispose of the chickens. The government doesn’t come, and the farmer doesn’t have enough money to take them in to be disposed of, so the birds stay there, and the disease ferments and festers.
Eventually bird flu may become a pandemic simply because the Third World is too poor to stop it. Thank you, all you advocates of supply side economics. How short sighted can you be? To quote a bumper sticker, we all do better when we all do better.
Tags: bird flu, avian flu, pandemic, H5N1, flu, influenza, politics
Here is one consequence of government policy that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer (think George W. Bush, et al): farmers in Turkey have sick chickens. The government is supposed to come and help dispose of the chickens. The government doesn’t come, and the farmer doesn’t have enough money to take them in to be disposed of, so the birds stay there, and the disease ferments and festers.
Eventually bird flu may become a pandemic simply because the Third World is too poor to stop it. Thank you, all you advocates of supply side economics. How short sighted can you be? To quote a bumper sticker, we all do better when we all do better.
Tags: bird flu, avian flu, pandemic, H5N1, flu, influenza, politics
posted by Ed Bremson, MFA @ 9:34 PM
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