Posted on 09/07/2012 11:34:02 AM PDT by Haiku Guy
Where do you get the idea that tax dollars built any of her homes?
My product distributor is in Hammond, La., about 60 miles from N.O. I talked to one of them and she said she was about ready to get the hell out of there.
” - - - “I was born here,” she said. “It’s home, home, home.” - - - “
Great! Then live in a boat, Boat, BOAT!
Unlucky = do nothing to change your circumstances and remain in a bad situation.
If she lives in a flood zone, and I suspect she does, she is eligible for the National Flood Insurance Program. This insurance is expensive if you never expect your house to flood, but cheap-cheap-cheap if you’re going to be cashing it in every ten years. No rational insurer would write such a policy, but Uncle Sam is only too willing, since he has access to your money to pay the claims.
The cross subsidization of the deeply cut-rate flood insurance amounts to the dollars buying these houses.
And that is not even counting on the “Money From Heaven” response you often see as Uncle Sugar rides to the rescue throwing money around after natural disasters.
What happened to Melanie Martinez’s home is evidence of stupidity. You want to see someone who was “unlucky” with respect to his homes, read about Wilmer McLean.
Because only 1 entity is stupid enough to insure homes in areas that are prone to flooding. Only 1 entity uses their "endless reserves" (ie. taxpayers) to finance a program that is fiscally irresponsible, fraught with fraud, makes no sense to anyone with an IQ above room temperature, and will not be supported by any private or publically traded insurance company.
http://www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program
We have enough stupid people! She'd probably rebuild in the shadow of Mt. Rainier and get wiped out by a lahar.
Maybe she'll move in next to you.
To add insult to injury, A&E reality show Hideous Houses had selected her home for a $20,000 makeover just a few months before. Though she’s considering moving to a home on higher ground this time around, Martinez is still hesitant to leave Louisiana.
Dry out some Samsonite and MOVE!
I hear you could use the rain..........
I would have bought a house boat after the second time.
I Am The Lion”
There was a flood
And many poor men were killed
And that is why our house
Is built on the top of a hill
The plains are like a friend,
Why can't we live on them
And if a flood should come,
Why can't we run
Yeah, we could. Very close to setting a record for consecutive days without rain.
10?.........
Ha ha...
The record is 51. To break the record we have to stay dry through Tuesday, but there’s rain in the forecast for that day.
Boo!
I might give her a second chance ("Hey! Lightning NEVER strikes twice").
Five times, though? She's an idiot.
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