re: #253 albusteve

Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality

the Dutch could have helped…who decided we didn’t need it?

Read more: [Link: www.financialpost.com…]

I’ve not yet heard the reasons why the foreign assistance was shunned. I keep hearing how foreign offers were turned down, but what are the reasons? When somebody finds me a story telling me the reasons why the foreign aid was turned down, then I may be upset about this. Until then, I’m assuming that there were reasonable reasons for turning down these offers - maybe it’ll turn out I’m wrong on that, but I don’t understand why the only reporting on this has been “He turned down offers of help!”, with no reporting on the reasons WHY.