Why not just build a city on top of Mount Everest? I understand the economic history behind it's creation but, for goodness sake, if you're going to live somewhere, why choose (the blues and jazz can be heard virtually anywhere these days) at a place where the Mississippi splashes into the Gulf and the city itself is under sea-level these days and then be expected to be bailed out by the rest of us?
All of us taxpayers are going to pay for these folks stupidity of location again. The insurance companies will a bit, and then leave like they did in South Florida. So, it's left to us in the rest of the country to pay for these folks brain cramps.
Cold-hearted? We've got charities to deal with the 'lives' of those who made these bad decisions or had the misfortune of being born to parents and generations who knew no geography.
I'm in a business where a lot of my friends will probably go belly-up because of the government's insistance on providing protection for areas like this....that has always been a loser and has caused THOUSANDS of lost jobs as a result.
This is another one of those catastrophes that is ONLY one because people are putting themself in danger. It's their choice. A bad one. One they chose to make. And one that, apparently, ALL of us will have to pay for.
All of us taxpayers are going to pay for these folks stupidity of location again. The insurance companies will a bit, and then leave like they did in South Florida. So, it's left to us in the rest of the country to pay for these folks brain cramps.
Cold-hearted? We've got charities to deal with the 'lives' of those who made these bad decisions or had the misfortune of being born to parents and generations who knew no geography.
I'm in a business where a lot of my friends will probably go belly-up because of the government's insistance on providing protection for areas like this....that has always been a loser and has caused THOUSANDS of lost jobs as a result.
This is another one of those catastrophes that is ONLY one because people are putting themself in danger. It's their choice. A bad one. One they chose to make. And one that, apparently, ALL of us will have to pay for.
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