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Sandy-hit Shore homeowners ask: "Where is the money?"
Philly.com ^ | 4/1/2013 | Amy S. Rosenberg

Posted on 04/02/2013 6:22:05 AM PDT by dirtboy

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To: COBOL2Java
Obama to Sandy Victims - “You F’ed up, you trusted us” LOL! What movie is that from? I'm having a senior moment...

Animal House, to Flounder after the road trip and they trashed his car.

21 posted on 04/02/2013 6:36:24 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Uncle Chip

The damaged house in the article is the owner’s summer house. Who in the Moocher class would believe that he should be compensated for his second home?


22 posted on 04/02/2013 6:36:38 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: dirtboy

Again, government should not be involved. This is a mission for the family, the neighborhood, the churches, the cities.


23 posted on 04/02/2013 6:37:08 AM PDT by lurk
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To: Tennessee Nana

I’m thinking 94% UNSETTLED sounds more accurate


24 posted on 04/02/2013 6:39:39 AM PDT by V_TWIN (obama=where there's smoke, there's mirrors)
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To: thackney

from the government


25 posted on 04/02/2013 6:40:44 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: dirtboy

As any home owner or business owner in hurricane country has learned, you better have plenty of insurance because the government gives its emergency funds to various local, state and federal agonies that sop it up and there is virtually none that gets to the private individuals who have suffered often catastrophic losses.

The dirty little secret in these disasters is that government only takes care of government....with your cash, of course.


26 posted on 04/02/2013 6:41:40 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: griswold3

I thought federal flood insurance was only supposed to be available for primary residences.


27 posted on 04/02/2013 6:41:57 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: yldstrk

Do you carry health insurance or auto insurance? If so why - if your attitude is just to pay for it yourself. I don’t expect someone without insurance to get a dime, but those who followed the rules and paid for insurance should get the help they paid for.


28 posted on 04/02/2013 6:43:15 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (In my world, Daddys don't leave after 4 or 8 years and a new one get picked by half the country)
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To: dirtboy

well he probably lied, “what’s wrong with that? everybody does it”—that’s the eastern mindset


29 posted on 04/02/2013 6:44:14 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: dirtboy

I have to assume since this is the N.E. a lot of these people vote lib/dem down the line.....if so they asked for this...they got it.


30 posted on 04/02/2013 6:44:22 AM PDT by V_TWIN (obama=where there's smoke, there's mirrors)
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To: griswold3

He bought insurance
His claim is being ignored
F@$k the rich?
Do you pay for insurance on anything?
Why?


31 posted on 04/02/2013 6:45:05 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: dirtboy

I realize those in NJ didn’t care about Hurricane Ike and the damage in Galveston a few years ago but this same thing happened there. Homeowners insurance argues with FEMA regarding whether the damage is wind related (homeowners would pay) or flood (FEMA would pay) - Some in Galveston are still fighting. “Friends” of the government get in line first and get grants and freebies too...


32 posted on 04/02/2013 6:45:40 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (In my world, Daddys don't leave after 4 or 8 years and a new one get picked by half the country)
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To: griswold3
"This was my summer home," the Delaware County plant manager

Government employees must live well up there. They can afford summer houses. And then expect the same taxpayers to remodel them.

33 posted on 04/02/2013 6:45:51 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: dirtboy

Christie Kreme had a photo-op with Zero. What’s the problem now?


34 posted on 04/02/2013 6:47:19 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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To: V_TWIN

I was wondering just how “settled” Obams idea of settled really is...

Settled to Obamas satisfaction

or settled as it should be...

This guy cant get his insurance company to replace his house because FEMA is in control of everything...

In my area we still to this day have people living in hotels from the tornados in April 2011 because FEMA wont release the money to replace their houses...

The hands of the insurance companies are tied..

FEMA came in here and made themselves the first line of help...

so good luck to this guy...

BTW FEMA doesnt GIVE money out...its just a loan...


35 posted on 04/02/2013 6:51:42 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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I got limited sympathy for em, I thought that was what insurance was for...

That's the point of the article. They paid for insurance through the National Flood Insurance plan. Months later, they are still waiting for their claims to be settled.

36 posted on 04/02/2013 6:51:46 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: dirtboy
Sandy-hit Shore homeowners ask: "Where is the money?"

What??? Are we to somehow believe the photo ops, gladhanding, hugs and looks of concern aren't enough? Is it time for Obama to give another speech?

37 posted on 04/02/2013 6:52:05 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: yldstrk
I used to own a beach front house in Texas. Because of previous insurance companies folding when the storm came in, instead of paying out the claims the insured homeowners were due, the insurance went from private to government.

As a result, the government runs the insurance program. You cannot buy private insurance for this as it is now illegal to sell and has been for a while. (At least it was when I bought my house in 1994 and sold it a few years later).

You don't get coverage unless you pay the premiums. But you won't get a mortgage unless you pay for coverage. As the article says, this is the “National Flood Insurance Program”. It is insurance. The program pays for itself but some years it has to play catch-up if enough claims come in at the same time.

38 posted on 04/02/2013 6:52:54 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: griswold3
Who in the Moocher class would believe that he should be compensated for his second home?

You think he paid $1,700 a year insurance premiums just for fun?

39 posted on 04/02/2013 6:53:55 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: dirtboy

What Obama should do is send Napolitano to declare mission accomplishment and all will be well. After all.. declaring the border as the “securist it’s ever been” is enough.


40 posted on 04/02/2013 6:54:03 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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