Why Should Everyone Else Pay For A Select Few's Stupidity?

[DarkRyuParticipant 2354]

I really don’t get it. If dumbasses want to build in an area that’s known to have hurricanes that wipe everything off the face of the earth, WHY IS THIS MY FAULT?! Why Am I having to pay to rebuild houses in Puerto Rico and Texas just so they can be obliterated again in a few years? Here’s a radical idea. DON’T LIVE THERE!

I know there are all types of natural disasters everywhere, but none as destructive as a hurricane.

Now I believe people should have the freedom to do whatever they want. If they want to build in an area knowing they’ll just have to pay to rebuild it all over again, that’s fine. But don’t expect me to pay for it!

I live in an area that gets tornado’s. If a tornado wiped out my house, I HAVE INSURANCE. I don’t expect everyone else to build me a new house. And there are many houses and buildings here that are hundreds of years old. The chances of my house being destroyed by a tornado is like 1 in 1,000.

[Anonymous 12]

Better to help them rebuild then to have them move closer to us.

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8289]

Personally, I don’t mind if taxes are used to rebuild areas that are destroyed by natural disasters…as long as my fellow citizens return the favor to me. As far as my personal property is concerned, I will have insurance to cover that. But the rest of the stuff (streets, power lines, cable lines, sewer pipes, public parks, public buildings, and national parks) should be taken care of with all our taxes. I like the idea of a pool of FEMA money available for anyone who needs it.

I also don’t mind if the government uses tax revenue for flood control projects along the Gulf states, and to purchase airplanes to drop fire retardant in states that have forest/brush fires. My state, California, could use some more firefighters and firefighting equipment.

To me, rebuilding post-disaster areas is like an investment. If you get people back to work and doing their normal spending, that tax revenue will be paid back to the state/federal government. I believe we all benefit from each other’s productivity (especially if you’re an investor), so I want to get Americans back into the work force and some sort of shelter as quickly as possible after a natural disaster.

The public has the burden of paying taxes, so they should get some kind of government service for that. Besides, I’d rather rebuild houses and infrastructure in Texas or Florida than Iraq. We spent way too much money on Iraq and have very little to show for it. They ought to be shipping free barrels of oil to us as a way of saying “thank you” for getting rid of Saddam Hussein.

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[bstoffParticipant 4939]

The areas of our country that frequently receive aid for disasters are the urban areas that misspend money allocated to them to strengthen their infrastructure.
If the local crooked politicians actually used that money on their infrastructure, they wouldn’t be demanding aid ever time it rained on them.

During the so-called winter storm Atlas, a few years ago,
the northern plains was buried under several feet of snow and incredibly cold temperatures for several days.
Most of the losses and damages was absorbed by the insurance companies that collected premiums for years.
The Federal government didn’t have to fly a president out there to calm people down and look concerned for the cameras because there were no cameras there.
Nobody cared.
The people just helped each other out like neighbors are supposed to do, and they got on with their lives.

[Anonymous 42]

I live in a man made disaster area that was destroyed on January 10. 1974 and NEVER SEEN A F~~~ING DIME OF MOTHERF~~~ING FEDERAL AID!

F~~~ YOU AMERICA! DIE YOU FILTHY F~~~ING TWO TIMING BITCH!

[TheWolfSheepFearSpectator 459]

I lived through two floods in my hometown one when I was a baby and one when I was like 14. Both f~~~ed up my town and city pretty bad. My family never really got s~~~ except maybe some food or something which we were grateful for. But the bitches around us who had like 5 kids and no jobs got fema checks, housing etc. I remember that summer when all the hood rats had new cars, shoes, cell phones, etc yet we’re still living in s~~~ hole apartments. One bitch I knew got over 5 thousand dollars for doing absolutely nothing other than applying. She had 4 bastard kids who were neighbors next to me. Basically if you don’t do s~~~ in life the government will help you but if you try to work and be a productive member of society they don’t give a f~~~ about you, your just a worker drone expected to pay his taxes and eat s~~~

Please God smite the wicked now

[BeerParticipant 11832]

DarkRyu wrote:

I know there are all types of natural disasters everywhere, but none as destructive as a hurricane.

Earthquakes, fires, floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, droughts, blizzards…there have been instances where those things have all made hurricanes look preferable, and that is the problem…if you move people out of Texas and Florida because of hurricanes…where do you move them that they can just avoid mother nature?

The thing that kills me is why don’t we do more to just prevent damage? Spend the extra money once to build a sturdier building that isn’t going to topple in a hurricane. I live in a flood zone that gets hit with occasional hurricanes in the late summer/fall and blizzards in the winter. I live in a building that was build in the 1800s and is still standing. The walls are also two foot thick brick. We could figure it out 200 years ago…why have we forgotten?

Or the recent fires in California for another example…its pretty much a given they have fires every year that destroys massive amounts of forest and all the houses in/near them. Why not have some controlled lumber harvesting to create some fire breaks so when a forest fire inevitably starts it can only spread so far so it does less damage and is easier to contain? All the idiot hippies though protest this s~~~ and the end result is uncontrolled fires end up costing more money and lives and doing more damage in the long run.

[IGMOW (I Go My Own Way)Participant 2572]

A social contract, that holds a nation or society together, has a premise that there are rules you follow, in exchange for an increased degree of security, ans a safety net in case things go bad. When you join a civilization, you have this. When you don’t have this degree of security, it turns into a Purge-like world of the Lord of the Flies. You want out, then find a way to go Galt.

"I am my own thang. Any questions?" - Davis S Pumpkins.

[SandalsParticipant 4254]

It’s even worse. The money doesn’t go to rebuild. The money goes to government contracts. The right way to distiribute money would to drop it out of a helicopter and let people spend it on whatever they want, not to pay millions for some brother’s contracting company to distribute waters bottles at a cost of $450 per bottle.

DarkRyu wrote:

I know there are all types of natural disasters everywhere, but none as destructive as a hurricane.

I’ll take a five day hurricane (which I have been through!) over a thirty second earthquake or a two minute tsunami any day.

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