If You Choose to Live Beside the Ocean....

isn't partisan about hating the other party just because? how is this partisan?

And no, the environment is nobody's fault, including the rest of the US. Why can't disasters like this be handeled by the states? it has nothing to do with compassion or anything imho.

 

How did people deal with natural disasters before FEMA was started in 2003?

 

Well, I'll remember that timing when your car is floating in the North Atlantic, your parents are cut off from you with mad looters running around, and you are stuck in a hotel without a means to get to anyone you love.

 

I'm sorry to hear that.

Hopefully things will get better quickly.

I still believe we should look elsewhere for disaster relief. The federal govt is not the solution.

 

No, but protecting it's citizenry is.

 

Do I sound like a person looking for federal relief?

No, just compassion...that costs you absolutely nothing.

 

Newsflash: YOU CAN'T LIVE ANYWHERE WITHOUT DEALING WITH SOME (*)(*)(*)(*)ING NATURAL DISASTER.

Do you understand that? Do you GET it? Or do I have to put retarded little parenthesis around my D's and R's for it to register?

 

Not right now they don't. Every part of the country has something, but oohhhhh they have their fed talking points. Alabama should move somewhere else to not get hit by tornadoes, the west, too. Chicago should move away from blizzards, New England needs to move away from ice storms, the south and west need to move from droughts, the west coast from volcanoes, wildfires, and earthquakes...

What state is safe?

 

None are. I lived in CA, I lived in MO and VA, I live in TN. In CA we had droughts (though it's so normal it would be more accurate to say "we've had water") and earthquakes. In MO we had tornadoes. In VA we had blizzards to worry about and Hurricane Irene (who was nowhere near as bad as Sandy). In TN tornadoes destroyed our neighborhood.

My fiancee lives in LA, so any time a hurricane pops up she's in danger. So (*)(*)(*)(*) these (*)(*)(*)(*)ers that act like you can just move. They can kiss my fat puckered ass.

 

There are plenty of areas where its a question of If.....

......the edge of a Volcano, edge of the Ocean, Bowl next to Ocean... are and forever will be a question of When......
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What a myopic view! It's not just individuals who are affected. We're talking about infastructure too. Most cities and some states don't have the revenue to recover from something like this. Where in this great country of ours could you live to get away from natural (or not) disaster -- be it tornado, flood, hurricane, fire, etc? And who gets to determine where people live? Maybe it's a hangover from Katrina but I can't believe the insensitivity I'm hearing about this crisis.

 

Yes, Einstein. The entire country.

Ever heard of a drought?

How about a wildfire?

Earthquake?

Ice Storm?

Blizzard?

Tornado?

Hurricane?

Did you miss the fact that over half the nation was in a drought last summer? It wasn't coastal people. Everywhere has some kind of disaster waiting to happen.

 

The OP claims that emergency federal assistance is "charity" which is ridiculous. Though I don't believe government should be involved in charity, helping out in times of extreme disaster is one of the good things government can do for its people.

 

How about some prayers then for my boss's son? He's a good little guy and a piece of roof fell on him.

 

The entire state of CA is in a constant earthquake. Where are these magical fantasylands where no natural disasters happen?

 

We agree on this. Disaster relief is no different than national defense, except you can't fight Mother Nature.

 

There are areas where disaster may or may not strike.......there are areas where disaster is desinted to strike.

In a Free Country.....those that want to live on the coast or on the edge of an active volcano need to accept the responsibility and costs that come with it.
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As with most things the government has gotten itself involved in, this is a failure of the private sector. It refuses to offer affordable flood insurance. Sounds similar to health insurance for old people, doesn't it?

 

Hurricanes are not "destined to strike" New England. Disaster may or may not strike there.

In a free country, governments protect their people from natural disasters they have no control over. In a free country, people are free to live where they wish without having disaster relief denied to them by asshats without a clue.

 

So am I an Übermensch for 'choosing' to live in a country where natural disasters just do not happen?

 

They aren't left without support, they have insurance. or should have. No one here's advocating for just letting them die are they? just saying that if they want to live in a dangerous place, buy insurance.

 

Yes. Swedes, living in the most secure area of the world natural disaster-wise are übermenschen. Blonde, tall and blue eyed, looking down on the lesser races, der untermenschen. Their inferiority is the cause of natural disasters.

 

How many times do you think New Orleans should be rebuilt with your tax dollars?

Well why not employ the best protection.....dont build there. Your free to choose to live on the edge of an active volcano....just dont expect me to help you rebuild when the lava stops flowing. If you can find a Private Insurer that wants to cover you...have at it....

....but sending men with guns to my home to make me the insurer is downright immoral.
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I agree except in three cases its an economic need, fishing industry facilities need to be by the ocean. The second you have no real choice if you live on one of our territorial islands and can't get away much there may be some need but serious storms don't hit those often. And the last one military naval facilities and housing for those in the service kind of hard to have those inland.

But the first and third are national interests food production and national defense.

 

Dude, what part of EVERY SINGLE PART OF THE COUNTY HAS SOME KIND OF ISSUE do you not get???? Everyone within 1000 of miles of Yellowstone is on the edge of a volcano. The whole country has something because that is the nature of weather and geology.

Jesus, why are you pretending to be so thick right now? You're not an imbecile. Is partisanism so thick that you forgot high school geography and earth science lessons?