"Darrel Toepfer" wrote:

On another note, anyone who lives near the ocean in a city that's 18
feet below sea level is living on borrowed time until the next
disaster. If businesses were refused insurance and government aid
for disasters such as this, and the poor were forced to work for a
living, no one (or very few) would live in areas like New Orleans
because the financial risk would be too great. Since the government
swoops in to cover much of the financial loss, there's less at risk
for the individual, and lives are needlessly lost.

The people still struggling to make repairs from hurricanes from the
past 3 years, ain't living off of a gov'nment teet. And lots of them
are 50 miles or more from any coast... It took me over 5 months to
have my roof and fence replaced and that was with insurance and my own
money. Lots of people can't afford that luxury...

Isn't it wonderful that we dumbasses living down here are able to
benefit from the wisdom of all the smart people in the rest of the
country?

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Dan
C172RG at BFM