Yes, "but", capitalism! How dare the State/Gov get in the way of private corporations? Why would the State/Govoffer something for free (or reasonably priced?).
What makes it more "fun" (nothing funny about the ordeal and the deaths in Texas)(btw I've been in Texas many many times - wonderful place, great people!) is that Texans are very conservative on one hand, and very pro-super-aggressive-capitalism on the other hand. Which makes no sense.
Seth Meyers said something on his show a couple nights ago: if you tell the antilopes that they are free to wander around in the zoo, it is only fair to tell them that the lions will ALSO be free to wander around in the same zoo.
Seeing this from Europe, I find it brutally ironic when people lose "free" to a corporation (weather reports, software to do your taxes, etc.) You (citizens of the USA) can do 10 things wrong to get yourselves to this predicament, and you take these 10 steps with acrobatic accuracy.
What makes it more "fun" (nothing funny about the ordeal and the deaths in Texas)(btw I've been in Texas many many times - wonderful place, great people!) is that Texans are very conservative on one hand, and very pro-super-aggressive-capitalism on the other hand. Which makes no sense.
Seth Meyers said something on his show a couple nights ago: if you tell the antilopes that they are free to wander around in the zoo, it is only fair to tell them that the lions will ALSO be free to wander around in the same zoo.
Seeing this from Europe, I find it brutally ironic when people lose "free" to a corporation (weather reports, software to do your taxes, etc.) You (citizens of the USA) can do 10 things wrong to get yourselves to this predicament, and you take these 10 steps with acrobatic accuracy.