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MAJ USA RET
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We don't "owe" them
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12/5/2009 12:42:41 PM
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Yes, disaster relief is highly appropriate to relieve suffering. It is infinitely wiser, more charitable, and more justifiable than, say… global warming. We should provide emergency shelter, food, clothing, law enforcement. But no cash!
If they want to move back into the flood danger zone, then they should be required to attend a briefing on flooding, hurricanes, prediction, and probability. Folks have lived with hurricanes and flooding in the coastal Carolinas and Georgia for centuries without undue disaster. The low country people build FOR the flooding and hurricanes (first living floor above flood stage). They KNOW they can’t get insurance. They KNOW the risk, and they live with it.
Folks have been living in the bayous for over a century. They expect flooding and hurricanes. They KNOW they can’t get insurance. They KNOW the risk, and they live with it.
(See Feibleman, Peter S. et al, “The Bayous”, Time Life Books, Revised 1977, LOC 73-84544)
Revisit WHO in New Orleans got slammed. ‘nuff said.
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