Posted on 01/29/2006 2:17:44 PM PST by Uncle Sham
You may be confusing Bush with Castro, who can snap his fingers and spend millions on anything he wants. What difference does it make whether Bush saw the devastation or not. It's either right to bail them out, or it isn't. I want to know how it is that so many people were uninsured in an area below sea level. Did they just assume the government would bail them out? How different is a single homeowner in New Orleans without insurance than a dumb jerk in Des Moine who doesn't have fire insurance and his house burns down?
Yeah? Well, the flood occurred August 30, 2005, and today is February 3, 2006, which is, uh, more than five months?
What I want to know is how, if you really wanted an answer to your questions, you avoided actually making the effort to find out the answers all these months.
Since when do the natural resources offshore from Louisiana magically transport themselves from offshore to your automobile?
In your dreams . . . .
Let me see, you must live in California, the land where energy appears by magic.
You missed the point.
I was saying that resources found in or near one state do not belong exclusively to that state...but to the nation.
Sounds like Communism to me.
Sounds like Communism to me.
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So the natural resources in W. Virginia - eg coal - should be controlled by the State of W virginia? That is communism.
Seems to me that the governor just shut down all of the mines up there. That looks like state control to me.
The governor of West Virginia just shut down the coal mines,in case you didn't notice.
I have no idea where you live but unless it's Louisiana you are using Louisiana oil and gas without paying a nickle towards reconstruction of the Louisiana coastline destroyed by the oil and gas industry.
Well, that's all in the past. Oil prices are going up and I doubt they will ever come down.
I know the answers. I was posing the question to make a point. It's a literary trick. They didn't get insurance because they didn't want to spend the money and just assumed the taxpayer would come rescue them if the worst happened. We've created a society of people who think it is the job of the government to provide them with a safety net regardless of whether they are capable of planning for natural disasters. During the last hurricane that hit Davie county Florida, people with good incomes were getting money from FEMA to buy generators. Now, explain to me why a guy making 10 dollars an hour in Nebraska should be footing the bill for a generator for a guy in Florida making 40 dollars an hour. I have no problem with the Government providing some people low interest loans to rebuild, but I'll be damned if someone that could afford insurance and didn't buy it, should get money from me because his poor planning.
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