by KaiserJeep » Fri 01 Jan 2016, 06:31:23
What we do is nothing, beyond personal acts that are performed by individuals as acts of kindness for other individuals.
We don't, to start with, force 10,000 disgruntled and displaced Syrian refugees, virtually all of whom simply want to return to live in Syria, to come to the USA and live amongst people that they have been taught for their entire lives are their mortal enemies. I mean, what could possibly go wrong with that?
We don't want to rebuild New Orleans, or the Atlantic seacoast for that matter, using Federal funds. Nor do we want to force those people to buy insurance. They are free to live wherever they want, and as always to guess wrong and lose everything. Just as all of the residents of California are today being forced to choose to live here without Earthquake insurance. I had it for 8+ years, then the government intruded after the Loma Prieta earthquake in '89, and now almost nobody has it. So we liquidate those insurance companies who unwisely wrote policies that covered property destroyed by the storms, after they deplete the insurance superfund. With so many people believing that rising sea levels are going to destroy those beautiful coastal homes anyway, people can make informed choices about new super-expensive insurance, or moving to higher ground.
Likewise with the Mississippi river basin flooding for the umpteenth recorded time, we don't want to rebuild those towns along the rivers.
Nor do we want to replace homes destroyed in Tornado Alley.
We should instead, only disburse funds for those who want to build safe underground housing in tornado zones, houses on stilts in flood areas, etc.
My personal preference is that the government play zero role in disasters, aside from basic search and rescue. If so many insist upon a Nanny government, the least we should do is only encourage responsible post-disaster behavior.
Basic common sense.
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