NOLA - 2 years later

[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?

Why is this something the government should have anything to do with?

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?

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.

EDIT: Daemon, seriously guy, don't you get why those things are not at all related to each other? You're beating a dead horse here. Start a new thread if you really think NO funding is being quashed by the war effort, and show some evidence of that.