JW that was shortsighted ignorant comment. Do you really want everyone to walk away from their property and businesses and leave the state of Florida? Do you want all the tax revenue for any coastal community to disappear? Maybe things look good to you in your trailer on a hill now, but you will soon be all alone, no police no trash collection no hospitals…take a second and look beyond the end of your nose. Nothing happens in a vacuum. It must be nice to be a bobble head parroting the remarks of others,,,
Hold on, Richard. I understand what you’re saying, but where does the subsidy end? FL has the 2nd highest number of flood claims made in the country. That means the guys in the trailers on the hill have forked out more for them than most. The guys in the trailers are in the trailers because they can’t afford the condo on the beach. Fact is, the guys in the condos on the beach can’t afford to live on the beach either, unless we subsidize them. The subsidy has to stop sometime. You do that with insurance and with premiums that are sufficient to pay the bills when the floods come…and you know they are coming – again and again. There will always be people who can afford the price of a beach-front home. If you can’t, get out.
The antics of the buffoons in DC would be fabulously entertaining if they weren’t destroying so many people’s lives. For those of you who are always yapping that politicians should “work together” to solve the world’s problems, take a look at what their bipartisanship has given us. First they concoct a nutty plan that supposedly will suspend the laws of economics to make flood insurance affordable for people who build in places that are very risky. After years of subsidizing dumb behavior and wasting resources, they pass another law aimed at making rates more actuarially sound, which is what a free market would have done in the first place if they had just stayed out of it. Now as policyholders’ premiums skyrocket, the compassionate geniuses who caused the mess in the first place assure us they can fix things by delaying or cancelling their previous plan. Why does anybody believe anything these clowns say?
Sounds like the usual situation, Florida residents want the rest of the country to pick up the tab for their natural disasters. It’s about time they started to pay their own way.
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The Fl. tea party republicans are looking for gov subsidies? Pay off you loan and you can go without insurance.
JW that was shortsighted ignorant comment. Do you really want everyone to walk away from their property and businesses and leave the state of Florida? Do you want all the tax revenue for any coastal community to disappear? Maybe things look good to you in your trailer on a hill now, but you will soon be all alone, no police no trash collection no hospitals…take a second and look beyond the end of your nose. Nothing happens in a vacuum. It must be nice to be a bobble head parroting the remarks of others,,,
Hold on, Richard. I understand what you’re saying, but where does the subsidy end? FL has the 2nd highest number of flood claims made in the country. That means the guys in the trailers on the hill have forked out more for them than most. The guys in the trailers are in the trailers because they can’t afford the condo on the beach. Fact is, the guys in the condos on the beach can’t afford to live on the beach either, unless we subsidize them. The subsidy has to stop sometime. You do that with insurance and with premiums that are sufficient to pay the bills when the floods come…and you know they are coming – again and again. There will always be people who can afford the price of a beach-front home. If you can’t, get out.
The antics of the buffoons in DC would be fabulously entertaining if they weren’t destroying so many people’s lives. For those of you who are always yapping that politicians should “work together” to solve the world’s problems, take a look at what their bipartisanship has given us. First they concoct a nutty plan that supposedly will suspend the laws of economics to make flood insurance affordable for people who build in places that are very risky. After years of subsidizing dumb behavior and wasting resources, they pass another law aimed at making rates more actuarially sound, which is what a free market would have done in the first place if they had just stayed out of it. Now as policyholders’ premiums skyrocket, the compassionate geniuses who caused the mess in the first place assure us they can fix things by delaying or cancelling their previous plan. Why does anybody believe anything these clowns say?
Sounds like the usual situation, Florida residents want the rest of the country to pick up the tab for their natural disasters. It’s about time they started to pay their own way.
Florida did not out FEMA 25 billion in the hole that came from Katrina and Sandy….last time I looked New Orleans and New Jersey were not in FLORIDA