Rebuilding Los Angeles after an earthquake I will buy.
Rebuilding New Orleans as a good part of it is below sea level? No way. Hastert is correct--I don't want my tax dollars rebuilding New Orleans.
Then I will start lobbying that no taxpayer dollars should fight wildfires out west which cost us taxpayers between 100-500 + mil a year, just for the cost of fighting them, much less the cost of rehabilitating the place after the fire. in 40 years (the distance between the two hurricanes that were severe) it has cost more to keep the West unburned, I suspect than taking care of one of the most important ports in the country.
After all, it burns every year. So what if Denver, Phoenix, San Diego, LA, and other western cities have problems with it. They shouldn't live where fires can happen.
That's the same logic. And it costs you as a taxpayer a bundle to keep those woodlands out west.
the animals/looters on tv are doing signifigant damage to public willingness to rebuild it, I bet.