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Originally Posted by KSig RC
I don't really want to side with Kevin here at all, but I do have a question - if these people can't get/afford insurance, then aren't the citizens who live elsewhere effectively "insuring" the area through tax dollars?
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Ok, why are people overlooking the fact that these people PAID TAXES and many still are? Were they not "insuring" others across the nation who received federal assistance for other natural disasters?
Also, it's not a matter of affording insurance. People based their decisions of whether or not to purchase a policy on federal government reports.
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Originally Posted by KSig RC
Why is this something the government should have anything to do with?
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See above.
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Originally Posted by KSig RC
Disaster funds are one thing - getting people back onto their feet with some assistance is a great idea, and a necessary duty of government. Doesn't it seem like the NO funding requests are going far beyond this, though, and toward propping people up rather than extending a helping hand?
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Why does it seem this way to you? It doesn't seem this way to me. I haven't had the opportunity to go back, but my best friend spent several weeks in NO for a journalism workshop and said it's pretty much a ghost town in a lot of the city. There are many, many places where it looks like the hurricane hit yesterday. "A helping hand" isn't going to do the trick.
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Originally Posted by KSig RC
Additionally, why do we act like insurance is some sort of right? That undermines what insurance really is supposed to be: pooling risk among a group. Insurance in this nation is beyond F-ed, but that doesn't mean we have to pretend the concept is something totally different.
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It's not about insurance, it's about responsibility. These people are U.S. citizens who are unable to make something out of nothing, and people living 1500+ miles away seem to be having trouble comprehending that. The purpose of the government is to protect the citizens, and right now the federal government (as well as local and state) is failing.