I think the point is this: WHY DO WE ALWAYS NEED FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS TO RECOVER FROM A DISASTER??? Why did we need federal tax dollars to recover from 9/11? Federal tax dollars to the families of 9/11? Federal tax dollars to bail out the airlines? And now federal tax dollars to rebuild after a hurricane. The locals/states and INSURANCE companies MUST foot most of the bill. We have it all backwards.
Oh, you ain't heard nothin' yet.
I heard a guy on the radio over the weekend arguing with Rusty Humphries about why the 9-11 families got between $875K-1.4MM and the po' people have only gotten a lousy $2000.
Humphries tried the argument that the people in the towers had a lifetime expectency of earning a lot more, and besides that was an enemy attack, not a natural disaster. I thought that was pretty thin. The govt opened a big can of worms with that payout.
Expect to hear a lot more of this in coming weeks.