Should emergency relief funds for a fire disaster area be automatically be linked to the provision that a state mandate the annual thinning of forests? ..or something along the lines of what the Fed did with the repeat offenders along the Missippi River. Don't have the specifics but it was pretty much, "we paid you this time. Should you decide to move back in / rebuild in a known flood plain - you do it at your own financial risk. We - the Fed - will give you no more money.
Small victory for the US taxpayer!!!!
CNN (I know) - can't get Fox at work - they had an interview with "Joe Property Owner" yesterday or this morning.....
Reporter, "You knew this was a high risk area for fires, yet you bought a house?"
Not so Proud new Owner of an ash heap, "Well, I knew they had fires here but after looling at last years fire path we decided that this area would be pretty much safe because it had been recently burned."
actual interview words - sorry did not record / write down, this is just a summary.
Just plain...Doh!!!
Mother Nature - 1.
Clueless morons - 0.
LVM
"we paid you this time. Should you decide to move back in / rebuild in a known flood plain - you do it at your own financial risk. We - the Fed - will give you no more money"
...I don't know much about the fires in California but do know a little about the mighty Mississippi and the people who continue to build and rebuild their homes in the same area where they have to know that the Mississippi will flood again and again and again.
...They also know with the proper amount of whining through the media, especially tv interviews with the unfortunate "victims", The federal gov will come through for them with low rate loans, guaranteed and subsidized flood insurance,emergency funds and grants. While publicly warning people that they won't be bailed out again.
...Three things are certain:
...The Mississippi will flood despite all the dams and levees the corps of engineers can build.(Or because of them in some cases)
...People will rebuild in the same places in spite of loss of property and life.
...The government WILL pay (Read Taxpayers) again and again and again.