![Volunteers from McCook, Nebraska, organize “flood buckets” of supplies to take to areas battered by flooding. Government officials had left those hard hit to fend for themselves.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/8314p1Neb1.jpg)
Workers, farmers face social disaster in floods
Catastrophe is product of workings of capitalism
LINCOLN, Neb. — The government on all levels has left farmers, ranchers and other working people to fend for themselves in the face of flooding that destroyed crops, silos full of grain and livestock on hundreds of thousands of acres…