🚀 go-pugleaf

Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> On 27 Sep 2005 14:47:44 -0700, "Dave" <davidphogan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Read again.  I suggested FLOATING motels for the few businesses that really
> >> need to house employees near (businesses on dry land that MUST be near the
> >> ocean).  That was just one reasonable suggestion, btw.
> >
> >There's nothing reasonable about the suggestion - it's at least as
> >pathetic as almost anything Judy posts, if not moreso.  How do you
> >expect to buy out every house within 500 miles of an ocean anyway?
>
> Do it through attrition: if the government refused to give people
> money to rebuild houses after they are flooded or blown away, the
> owners *will* sell - and with the government out of the
> rebuilding-after-disaster business, there will be few takers. Then the
> government can step in any buy up those properties, probably for less
> than it would have cost to give those same people money to rebuild.

Yes, but his original post called for no residential development
anywhere in the US within 500 miles of any coast.  Expecting NYC,
Boston, Philly, DC, Baltimore, and almost every other major city in the
US to pack up and leave cause they're too close to water for someone's
liking is just stupid.

> >Nature happens, live with it.
>
> Indeed. Everyone in hurricane-prone areas should "live with it" -
> WITHOUT being bailed out by the taxpayers for their poor choices. If
> they can afford to rebuild their homes out of their own pockets, more
> power to 'em. But it's time we stopped subsidizing poor housing
> choices.

How about if we just tell everyone up yours after a disaster, since if
we're going to pick hurricanes we also should enforce it for tornadoes
too.  What kind of dumbass lives in Tornado Country anyway?

I don't think the government should be forced to pay for rebuilding,
but people should at least have the right to buy a house near the water
and insure it if they want.  The OP suggested no living near water
anywhere at all.  A realistic idea would be that we might not want to
allow building in below sea-level areas near oceans.

Dave