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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?
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.
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Im sorry I must be 'stupid'
Bush paying lipservice in NOLA on the same day while asking for money from Congress that the US may not have so it can be spent elsewhere on top of the billions already being wasted and you need me to show evidence....?
They are NOT related?
Ok.
Let me say this again slowly...
You
Don't
See
These
Stories
Coming
Out of
Florida
and it gets hit regularly by hurricanes....and when the governor asks for money...he gets it....
and we arent even gonna get into the wildfires that seem to be happening yearly out in the midwest.
So WHY 2 years later and NOLA still looks a hot mess?
Reading in between the lines is indeed Fundamental
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