09-23-2005, 05:12 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Flyover land
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Just compensation
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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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You are in favor of building codes? Christ. My image of you is entirely ruined. |
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