Come to think of it, why are our federal tax dollars being used to rebuild private beachfront homes? Seems to me private insurance should he taking care of those million homes, not you and me. If you're dumb enough to live on a beachfront location and not buy flood insurance...your problem, not mine. NJ has some of the highest income and property taxes in the country and they've had similar storms in the past. Why didn't they set a reserve aside to fund the cleanup of local gov't infrastructure? Unless someone on the barrier islands asks you and me to come and visit for a couple of weeks, I think we're being had.
Actually, the tax system is called a voluntary tax, Washington speak for something like when a person who was drafted decided to volunteer for the Army.
I think the time has come to take that small area in Northeast Virginia and South Md and just cut it off, blow the bridges, mine the land roads and cut off all utilities. The way they think there, they would florish because it is the land of no reality.
His Excellency is now going to nominate Lew to be the sec of treasury after Tiny Tim. A virtual career bureaucrat with a small stint at Citi running their, Tada, mortgage factoring unit!
We are living in interesting times.