Losing Louisiana

NM & KS, Why not same rules for California?

Some are quick to say let's not waste money in Louisiana, but why not use the same standard for all coastal areas (CA, esp) where each year we experience the same pattern of fires, floods, mudslides with million dollar homes sliding into the muds, the mountainside, the water. Wealthy Americans somehow get millions paid out by national insurance companies who get their money from the rest of the citizens who don't live perched precariously on mountains, or on Atlantic and Pacific Seaboard in million dollar beach homes.

No one cries out for us to wise up and abandon all the coastal areas which have been destroyed over and over. Yet after an event that was nature-inspired but whose destruction was multiplied by government error (i.e., Army Corps of Engineers) suddenly people say, "let's not waste money on Louisiana".

Double standards are wrong by any name. This is just the same old system of the rich can do whatever and we pay for it, but the poor are unattractive, unwanted, and we'll ignore them until they go away.

For any who bother to know the physical realities, the original and early additions to the city of New Orleans lie on higher ground and did not flood or would not have flooded during Katrina without the errors of the army of dishonest businessmen who view a federal contract as a license to steal by shoddy workmanship and producing substandard products.

The entire nation should discuss all the problems with coastal areas and let our scientists come up with a fair solution and our political leaders devise a financially reasonable way to handle the inevitable destruction of untenable beach homes, mountain homes, flood plain homes in a way that treats the poor of the Gulf Coast States in the same manner as the rich of the coastal states from California to the Carolinas.

Note: It is pathetic really that whatever the topic, there are poor souls who cannot help themselves from Clinton bashing. And, how can we live without our daily dose of, "Global Warming is an ungodly, liberal myth." Yep, fellas. I think it'd be more fun to believe that Global Warming is a Clinton strategy for him to become Supreme Ruler in his own Universe. Maybe he joined that religious group out .... never mind.

Elizabeth of VA @ Jul 01, 2009 00:18:30 AM