If the federal taxpayers were not subsidizing their property values by building/maintaining levees, and subsidizing them again when they break, wouldn't these people live in a more rational area?
Who ever thought this was a good idea ?
Exactly right. And when someone is injured or killed in a flood in such places, consider that they wouldn't even have been been there in harms way to begin with had it not been for our fed $ lulling them into a false sense of security.
The French?