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Article #434Re: Either Bush Acts To Help California, Or, He's "George W. Hoover"
From: Craig Berry
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:20
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:20
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peterl@nospam.csus.edu wrote: : Building houses on flood plains without flood insurance, : should we just let those people in Iowa die because they : were stupid? Building houses right next to national : forests, should we just let those people burn because they : are stupid? Yes, actually. Or, rather, our governments should change policies which hide the real costs of living in such places, and thus make them artificially attractive. If homeowners were told "If you live within X miles of the river, you will receive *no* government assistance in the event of a flood", I'd imagine housing patterns would change. Unfortunately, there's no good way to change the policies now without unfairly penalizing many people who bought their homes under the existing guarantees. -- | Craig Berry - http://www.cinenet.net/~cberry/ --*-- "The hills are burning, and the wind is raging; and the clock | strikes midnight in the Garden of Allah." - Don Henley
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a89e,164e13ab300a49a8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a89e,public X-Google-Thread: f6597,164e13ab300a49a8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6597,public X-Google-Thread: f824f,164e13ab300a49a8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,164e13ab300a49a8 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-24 11:20:39 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: cberry@cinenet.net (Craig Berry) Newsgroups: sac.general,ba.general,la.general,sd.general Subject: Re: Either Bush Acts To Help California, Or, He's "George W. Hoover" Followup-To: sac.general,ba.general,la.general,sd.general Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:20:37 -0000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <t6uao5skasd557@corp.supernews.com> References: <94fhqj$1e1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <t6p9pcjj0q39d0@corp.supernews.com> <3a6dd82b.11210982@news> X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 20