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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
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?
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If we're following your policy of discouraging, not encouraging settlement in dangerous areas, will your answer to the hypo be no federal compensation at all in order to encourage migration out of CA into Arizona, Nevada and Utah?
TIA for your response. It'll help us set home prices accordingly.
