The American government still thinks that terrorism is something outside himself caused by people who have accumulated weapons for mass destruction that doesn't exist, who have a couple of outdated fighter aircraft buried in the sand. The average American has probably ingrained himself with the thought that everything American is good including their presence and meddling in countries that need to work out their own internal politics; it serves their purpose as far as accumulating energy reserves and maintaining the life that government officials have.
Few though can come to terms that the real solutions to threats on their own security are not endless spending on drug or oil related wars but on maintaining their own infrastructure above the level that their services are not compromised. Otherwise why have a homeland security act in the first place if individual road and bridge networks are not safe. Why wait to 2020 when something was defective on 2007.
But American leaders look like they are externalizing their problems rather than dealing with basic issues, which should come before dealing with supposed external threats. There could have been a way to prevent bridge collapses through investments but they haven't invested sufficiently in infrastructure and instead pay to send young kids to war, they are shortsighted.
More and more events will occur in the United States to get people to realize it would have been better to stay at home and look after their own livelihoods, improve on the way their country functions than send people off to open-ended conflicts. Recently the country did not enact decent measures to bring citizens back to New Orleans the country is only dividing itself.
Is the Canadian government behaving any differently by subsidizing the rebuilding of homes that are hot by natural disasters? Well outside of the tongue and cheek remark by the PM on the rebuilding of a homeowners house that would entail new taxes to be paid, there is no real help as far as I am concerned. Harper snubbed the Newfoundland PM by coming unannounced; apparently that was over a disagreement on the allocation of funds to that province. One would think that those differences would be put aside before the visit. A good piece of highway also collapsed between Laval and Montreal which was a reminder of what happened in that area in 2000 and as result is the Concord Bridge any safer than it was?
I would like to think so but oddly no mention of any investment in that infrastructure was mentioned after the overpass collapse that claimed the lives of five motorists crushed below. And like Bush we are interested in saving face by maintaining the need to deploy more troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
