If we said nobody should live in places that are dangerous, then that eliminates pretty much everywhere in the US I'd like to live.
Florida? Hurricanes. Texas? Hurricanes. Louisiana? Hurricanes.
California? Earthquakes. Malibu? Fires. Pacific Palisades? Mudslides. Newport Beach? I'm sure there's a giant tidal wave with my name on it, if I moved there.
Hawaii? I'm sure there are hurricanes there too.
Okay, let's say we give the warm weather areas to the primordal ooze and move back East to the ancient industrial areas. My God I hate to live in those places. Then we have winter.
Guess what? Winter kills more people in a year than these disasters do in a decade.
I would rather pull together through my tax money and help out the people who suffer from a disaster than not be allowed to live in a disaster zone. Because, unfortunately, those are the only places I like to live :-(.
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People should be able to live wherever they want -- that is not the problem. The problem is that a lot of people want the taxpayers to foot the bill for the consequences of their choice of locales. TANSTAAFL.
"If we said nobody should live in places that are dangerous, then that eliminates pretty much everywhere in the US I'd like to live.
Florida? Hurricanes. Texas? Hurricanes. Louisiana? Hurricanes."
You forgot to mention Massachuetts, John Kerry and Teddy Kennedy. Treason. Drunk driving.