Vincent Geloso: Wal Mart

J'ai vraiment aimé suivre la couverture média de l'ouragan Gustav qui était supposé nous remémorer la mauvaise gestion Républicaine. Mais j'ai trouvé drôle que personne se demande comment les choses se seraient produites si les démocrates étaient au pouvoir. Aprés tout pendant l'ouragan Katrina, Wal-Mart, Target, Macys et Costco ont été plus efficaces que la bureaucratie Américaine dans la provision des biens et services nécessaires pour la population - en fait, ils s'étaient préparés avant que la tempête n'atteigne San Francisco :

In his September 1 column (“John, Don’t Go"), Paul Krugman blames the failed response of FEMA during Hurricane Katrina on the Bush Administration’s antipathy to government. To the contrary, FEMA’s failures resulted from two problems endemic to bureaucracies no matter the party in power: a lack of local knowledge and weaker incentives than the private sector to succeed. By contrast, Wal-Mart got supplies and people into the worst-hit areas because its associates and managers had detailed knowledge of their communities and the incentive to help their neighbors that will always be absent in bureaucracies. FEMA’s warehouses of unused resources contrasted with Wal-Mart’s trucks on the move suggest that indeed the failures of Katrina were ones of bureaucratic ignorance, not administration ideology.
Sincerely,
Steven Horwitz

Libellés : FEMA, Gouvernement, Intervention, Ouragan Gustav, Ouragan Katrina, Wal Mart