Repercussions for people outside New Orleans

Jonathan Goodish wrote:
Delivery is a largely new problem spawned by the destruction of the
hurricane.

Wow! We destroyed a hurricane!!!
Now if we can just destroy all the others there will be no more disasters!!!

:-))

Jonathan Goodish 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...

"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?

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

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"Dan Luke" wrote:
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?


Isn't it wonderful that you who live down there are able to demonstrate
your ignorance toward the impact natural disasters have on other parts
of the country?

I live in the mid-atlantic states, and we experienced severe flooding,
damage and destruction as a result of the residual rains of hurricane
Ivan last year. Communities have not yet fully recovered. However,
very few lost their lives despite the fact that the massive flooding up
here was in no way anticipated.



JKG

In article ,
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...


That's not my point. There are catastrophic events that happen no
matter where you live, but the incidence and severity of catastrophic
events are markedly higher along the southeastern/gulf coast. If there
was little or no government money and insurers refused to cover for
hurricane damage, chances are good that the population density in these
large cities would not be at risk because there would be no reason for
folks to live there... there would be very small economies.

The "refugee" situation in New Orleans is largely a result of socialist
government policies that permit large numbers of people to live in
poverty.




JKG

"Jonathan Goodish" wrote:

The "refugee" situation in New Orleans is largely a result of socialist
government policies that permit large numbers of people to live in
poverty.

What's the alternative? Would you prefer even stronger socialist policies to
subsidize them out of poverty?

--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM