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To: OldFriend; Peach

Y'all sound like a couple of liberals. if you want to help, write a check. Why has the gubmint got to be involved in it? And if we really want to help, let's just get the gubmint to buy everyone flood insurance.


135 posted on 08/29/2005 1:49:36 PM PDT by Huck (" 'Neo-Con' is like an old headline. Nobody will know what it means in 10 years."--Keith Richards)
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To: Huck

Sure, let's just let folks suffer with no help. Way to go, Scrooge.


140 posted on 08/29/2005 1:52:13 PM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: Huck
"Y'all sound like a couple of liberals. if you want to help, write a check. Why has the gubmint got to be involved in it? And if we really want to help, let's just get the gubmint to buy everyone flood insurance."

No, flood insurance is for property. There are lives at stake here from a natural disaster, that's entirely different from property.

151 posted on 08/29/2005 1:58:40 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Huck

Well, if being comfortable with my tax dollars being spent on disaster relief (even though they could do a better job with it, but that's another post) makes me a liberal, then great. Call me one, too.

I'd rather sound like a bleeding heart liberal than a cold-hearted tight fisted jerk like you.


155 posted on 08/29/2005 2:00:38 PM PDT by exnavychick (We're damned if we do, damned if we don't...so my vote goes for "do.")
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To: Huck
let's just get the gubmint to buy everyone flood insurance.

I believe the gubmint already runs their own flood insurance program..

165 posted on 08/29/2005 2:04:06 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Cindy, your 15 minutes are just about up...)
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To: Huck
Y'all sound like a couple of liberals. if you want to help, write a check. Why has the gubmint got to be involved in it? And if we really want to help, let's just get the gubmint to buy everyone flood insurance.

I hear what you're saying, and I'll even stipulate that the Constitution does not authorize those types of expenditures.

That said, is this the issue we want to choose as a case in point? When there are so many other more egregious uses of taxpayer funds?

182 posted on 08/29/2005 2:13:53 PM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: Huck

So you think that people who are too poor to evacuate should just be left without help from anyone in law enforcement or the government?

Because that is the post I was responding to.

And if that is your attitude, I think it's despicable.


207 posted on 08/29/2005 2:25:01 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: Huck
Why has the gubmint got to be involved in it?

I'd bet you didn't feel that way on 9-11, did you?

Should the government have stayed out of that, too?

You were right there at Ground Zero, Huck; how can you be so cruel to these people?

421 posted on 08/30/2005 11:28:06 AM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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