Posted by John in La on August 28, 2016 at 09:43:22 from (96.33.136.54):
In Reply to: Am I hard hearted???? posted by JD Seller on August 28, 2016 at 08:43:12:
Do you really want a insiders point of view?
No where on earth is safe. We have tornadoes; floods; earthquakes; roofs falling in from snow load. Heck I seem to remember Iowa flooding a few years back. Maybe everyone should move out of Iowa.
As for the most recent flood; many areas flooded that have never seen water before. I wonder what your yard would look like after a record (never happened before) 30+ inches of rain in 36 hours.
So I feel you can live where you want and I can live where I want.
With that said I do not believe in federal or even state aid. Stop subsidizing flood insurance; get rid of Fema; and fend for yourself when you flood in La. or the locust take over your Iowa farm. We can stop subsidizing row crop insurance to farmers and buying milk to make government cheese while we are at it. In fact if you go snow skiing in Colorado and get caught in a avalanche; be ready to pay the rescue bill to get yourself off the mountain.
Odd part is they took a survey on a New Orleans radio station last week. The vast majority said if you do not have flood insurance tough luck. Funny how the vote changes when the shoe is on the other foot as New Orleans did not flood this time but you would have gotten a very different response from these same people after Katrina.
Some will suggest that we do nothing for these people that flooded and did not have flood insurance because the government told them they were not in a flood prone area. Then others ask what do we do with them. They have a mortgage; most likely a second mortgage to pay for the pool or new kitchen cabinets; and now will need a 3rd mortgage that they most likely can not get because they do not have enough equity in the home to cover this new loan. So do we let whole neighborhoods go bankrupt because we both know; no one is going to pay on a house loan when they can not live in the house.
So to suggest that we should not live where it floods is ludicrous. In fact I would say that south La was well populated before Iowa saw its first white man. The difference in then and now was government aid. 1965 and I believe 1969 saw some bad hurricanes in this area. Betsy and Camille. People did for themselves and came back just like their ancestors had done for decades. Today if the electricity goes off for more than 24 hours people are looking for food stamps to replace all the food in their refrigerator and or freezer.
Sorry if I got long winded but I can debate this subject for hours. We could talk about how the government has ruined our coast threw river levees and many other things that cause us to flood in the first place.
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