Comments on: Free Use: A Remembrance http://themoderatevoice.com/20465/free-use-a-remembrance/ An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:10:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tim_in_Wisconsin http://themoderatevoice.com/20465/free-use-a-remembrance/comment-page-1/#comment-128945 Tim_in_Wisconsin Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:28:44 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/media/journalism/20465/free-use-a-remembrance/#comment-128945 Right now a massive flood is overtaking the midwest. Towns are seeing the highest water levels they've ever recorded. All barge traffic on the upper Mississippi is embargoed as well as the overwhelming majority of train traffic. Over one billion dollars of crops have been destroyed in Iowa alone. The destruction of new crops coupled with existing crops rotting away because there's no way to transport them means that food prices are going to continue to skyrocket. It doesn't help that the river has effectively stopped our two most energy efficient forms of freight transportation (rail and inland waterway) thus leading to higher prices for electricity and consumer goods. The impact of this disaster on the American economy will be far worse than that of Katrina.<br><br>And yet, this is now the sixth post currently on TMV's front page about the Associated Press. Non-bloggers have stopped caring if they ever did to begin with. I don't mean to pick on you specifically, but you just happened to be the author to weigh in on this the most recently. All I ask for is a little perspective. <br><br>And no, I'm not directly affected by this. I have family in Mississippi river towns that are currently flooding, but they live several miles and hundreds of vertical feet away from the river. Right now a massive flood is overtaking the midwest. Towns are seeing the highest water levels they've ever recorded. All barge traffic on the upper Mississippi is embargoed as well as the overwhelming majority of train traffic. Over one billion dollars of crops have been destroyed in Iowa alone. The destruction of new crops coupled with existing crops rotting away because there's no way to transport them means that food prices are going to continue to skyrocket. It doesn't help that the river has effectively stopped our two most energy efficient forms of freight transportation (rail and inland waterway) thus leading to higher prices for electricity and consumer goods. The impact of this disaster on the American economy will be far worse than that of Katrina.

And yet, this is now the sixth post currently on TMV's front page about the Associated Press. Non-bloggers have stopped caring if they ever did to begin with. I don't mean to pick on you specifically, but you just happened to be the author to weigh in on this the most recently. All I ask for is a little perspective.

And no, I'm not directly affected by this. I have family in Mississippi river towns that are currently flooding, but they live several miles and hundreds of vertical feet away from the river.

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