Should the federal government keep bailing out places like florida til the end of time?

I don't believe anyone thinks hurricanes won't happen there year after year. and No one on this planet would take a bet that florida won't get severly f'cked up by a hurricane in the next 3-5 years. I say, if you choose to live there and endanger your life and your children's lives so you can live & work near the beach, you should not be getting tax money from peope who live in safe places. New Orleans was tragic, but damn, it doesn't take a genius to know if you live next to the ocean below sea level, that's just not smart.

Flame on!

 

I say no... if you live there, get insurance. If you can't afford it, either don't get it and don't say one word when the next one wipes you off the map, or move.
I have coverage against hurricane damage and I live 6 hours from the coast.

The Federal Gov't should only repair the infrastructure in affected areas.

 

I'd agree with this but I think it would take us living in a perfect world before only those who can afford insurance would only occupy the area.

Also, from what seattledave said about them not receiving money from us who live in "safe places" is going to be a hard one. We out in Seattle (the entire Westcoast even) live with the knowledge that our entire state can be shook into oblivion at any moment.

And another thought... I'd hate to see children and elderly go without aid if we can afford it. They are people whom can't really help themselves and I think it's up to us as decent human beings to help prevent them from hunger, lack of shelter and such.

I think in the future, we need better distribution of aid. Maybe some sort of law put in place, requiring each household to have the proper insurance (I know that if you live out here in a flood plane, you're required to carry flood insurance). Eh, I don't know.

 

I thought that old people moving to florida was because they wanted to die. Like maybe they were just too scared to kill themselves so they thought a hurricane would?

and while yes, most every place that americans inhabit has major natural disasters, i for one live in a state where earthquakes can happen. But no one can say if it's this year, next year, or 50 years from now. Technically it could never happen again.

But florida is a little different, they will get a major hurricane that will come on land this year, and within 3-5 years, florida will need another 100+ billion in aid because a major hurricane will happen there, as it always does.

 

But not all places of LA and FL get hit by hurricanes every year either. I think it could very well of been 50-100 years between natural disaster events that completely devastated areas.

I'm not well informed on all this disaster relief stuff but I do believe in helping people if you have the funds to do so. I don't think that withholding money to these people will keep them from living in that area any less. Guess that means I'm clueless on how to solve the problem.

 

we can always come up with money to fund anything, but it's at the expense of something critical. Think if they took all the billions of dollars spent on florida in the last 10 years, or new orleans, or **** the iraq war(where the hell does all the money that is being spent there, normally not get spent on?) and put it towards, fixing hunger, improving education, adding art or atheletics back into public schools where they've been reduced or taken away. Hundreds of billions of dollars are going to be wasted on fixing up florida and surrounding states, yet again, but still we have public schools complaining about being just a few million short to hire better teachers, books, programs. Take all that disaster money that goes to these every-year-for-sure a hurricane is coming states and apply it to the social security prob. or start up universal healthcare.

States should individually set aside money for disaster relief. if there is a disaster, that has to take care of it. if they get lucky and don't get hit, then there's some school money.

florida always gets hit, sure sometimes it's the northern sometimes it's the southern, but somewhere on the same 200 mile stretch always does.

 

That seems very reasonable to me. But can we force them to be responsible for themselves? Could they even manage to come up with that type of scratch? How would they go from regular taxes to extreme taxes, without affecting things like the local economies and such. I mean, you seem to have too simple of a plan. I'd imagine that if it was really just that cut and dry, it very well might of been done by now. Well, maybe, lol.

As far as the money being better spent elsewhere... well sort of. If we can prevent any hardship from happening from a person, the money we don't spend on helping them out would do wonders elsewhere. But when there is a hardship and we can help, that money is best spent on getting their life back in order.

 

my simple plan is cause I secretly want to make people move the hell away from stupid places, or force them to choose to live there on their own dime.

 

Well, I want them to move away from dangerous places too.

If we forced them to live there on their own dime... would you be perfectly okay with watching a little 4 year old boy, whom's name may coincidentally named Gavin, be denied shelter, food and health because their parents made lame decisions or couldn't afford the costs of relocating?

I don't know.. I certainly don't have the answers and your's really need to be a little more developed. I can't put much thought into this topic though... I accept my role as a non-contributing member to the "make a change" movement, lol.