Hooah Wife blogged Neal Boortz and Clark Howard were going back and forth(at the show last night) if it is the government's responsibility to rebuild New Orleans (for example). Neal said that if you build a house below sea level - near water - tough luck. Clark felt that if you had homeowner's insurance in good faith and were told you didn't live in a flood zone that the fed govt. should help out. Neal felt free trade was very important and that we should just give the people the money and let them do what they want with it not have the feds pick a home and place for them and say - live here. What is your take on this?
If you were not aware of the problem, then perhaps the government should help. But only ONCE. It is absolutely stupid for the government to pay to rebuild a house one year, and have it damaged by the same thing the next year, and having them pay again. And again. And again.
And if you are not bright enough to know not to build a house on land that is 7 to 15 feet BELOW SEA LEVEL, then it is not the government's fault.
We should not pay a single penny to rebuild anything on land below sea level. Build levees to protect the French Quarter and other land that is above sea level, and let the rest become a lake.
And no money should be paid to rebuild a house damaged by floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, forest fires, or mudslides more than once.
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Below Sea Level
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But is it the Govt's responsibility to rebuild it even once?
I don't think so, but I would not worry too much about doing it one time, but I am outraged about them doing it over and over, or even doing it the first time when it was obvious there was a problem, and you were just waiting for it to fail. If you build your house on stilts on the side of a mountain, I hope you have a good insurance company, or a lot of extra money, because I dont want to pay for it when it falls down. The same is true if you build your house in a bowl that is below sea level, where even if the levees hold, a hard rain (like the 40 inches that fell in Mexico with Wilma) would fill it up.
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