Journey to the heart of Bushlandia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1789613,00.html
The wide open spaces of Idaho have little room for anti-war sentiment
Oliver Burkemann in Boise, Idaho
Saturday June 3, 2006
The Guardian
The governor of Idaho, an affable rancher named Jim Risch, stretched
back in his chair and outlined his alternative history of the last few
years in America. "Hurricane Katrina - they heaped that on George
Bush!" said Mr Risch, in his shirt-sleeves in the blasting dry heat of
an afternoon in Boise, the state capital.
"Here in Idaho, we couldn't understand how people could sit around on
the kerbs waiting for the federal government to come and do something.
We had a dam break in 1976, but we didn't whine about it. We got out
our backhoes and we rebuilt the roads and replanted the fields and got
on with our lives. That's the culture here. Not waiting for the federal
government to bring you drinking water. In Idaho there would have been
entrepreneurs selling the drinking water."
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