The financial crisis shows that once again we respond with open wallets to accute, explosive catastrophes but not slow, seething scandals.
Bono puts it in perspective: “It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire (Group of Eight nations) can’t find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable disease and hunger.”
Of course we’ve been told that providing health insurance to all Americans –which cost a fraction of this bailout — was prohibitively expensive, too.
It’s all about how you define crisis, isn’t it?