In this video, Stephan Colbert pretends to defend making money off disasters. Despite his jokes, Klein gets her argument across. Notice the connection she makes to Hurricane Katrina. How do you think this argument relates to our overall course theme of America's place in the world?

- In this video Naomi Klein explains how the government uses the shock tactic to make money off events and disasters that occur in the U.S. and i agree. The government knows exactly how to squeeze the money out of people. When these events happen people end up so dumb founded they depend on the government to know better and sort of lead a guiding path but instead they take the same money we think is being put to good use and do their own thing. This argument can be related to almost all of the reading that's being done in U.S. History. America tries to take advantage of another country and says their just trying to make the lives of the people there better. But are their intentions really that innocent? I doubt it. They say one thing and almost always mean the opposite. They only try to take advantage and benefit themselves. They don't even bother to give back or really help out the system of the colony.