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Originally posted by Spanky
OK legally I may have my head up my derrier. But morally, don't you think the Feds should cover this (in other words the American tax payer should cover this). The Feds should have forseen this type of storm coming and strengthened the levee. I just think if people houses got flooded because of a weak levee they should get compensated.
Did I turn into a bleeding heart liberal and not realize it?
Just my opinion.
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Yes, you have. We should discourage, not encourge, settlement in dangerous areas. If you pay everyone off, the problem is only bigger the next time.
Their houses got flooded because they're built in a flood plain, or below sea level. The levees just prevented it from happening more often, and sooner. To take fringe's analogy, are you going to tell us next that after an LA earthquake, the feds should pay because they built too much infrastructure there and didn't impose sufficiently strict building codes?
