Another big storm has hit Florida and caused massive damage to communities across the state. Several people even died in this one and thousands went without electricity. Everyone recalls the hurricane season when 5 hit the state in one storm season. It was horrible and people's homes were destroyed and more people died. You can go back through the years and count how many huge destructive storms have hit the Florida peninsula. It's one of the few very populated storm centers, and millions live right in the middle of it.
The economic fallout from these storms is extensive, reaching into the billions of dollars. Homes, schools, businesses and even the infrastructure of the communities needs to rebuilt after a major storm passes. Billions of dollars that need to come from somewhere. Insurance companies have been hit so hard by claims from folks whose homes were destroyed by successive storm seasons, that some of the biggest national insurance corporations are considering not returning to those areas continually devastated, year after year. Why would they. It's a no win situation for them, and some are trying to convince the government to force them to. But that's a whole other form of socialism.
By far the biggest financial contributor to disaster areas are the federal taxpayers. Billions of taxpayer dollars went to Florida and Louisiana. People whose houses were leveled by one storm, rebuilt with the help of federal funds in the same spot. And guess what........another storm came and destroyed that house. So they refiled for more federal funds and rebuilt in the same spot again. Alot of people hadn't even rebuilt before the next storm hit. It seems like a no-brainer to me, but a persons choice to live anywhere they want is no business of mine. So I sat and watched on TV how everyone was surprised when storm after storm hit and more kept coming, and more home were destroyed and more people died storm after storm. I also watched how much of the federal tax fund was sent to Florida to rebuild everything that was destroyed.
Just an idea here. Let's declare certain areas of the world as Natural Disaster Areas (NDA). That would be those areas that have a history of habitual occurrence of major storm systems and earthquakes. And in keeping with the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness accorded to each of us, one can choose to live smack in the middle of those areas (as many already do). However, knowing that area is a NDA, you choose to live there accepting that if a natural disaster hits, and your house gets destroyed, you will get no help from the federal tax fund.
Why expect the American taxpayer to subsidize your risk of loss just so you can live on a beautiful white sand beach that has been rearranged by hurricanes multiple times in the last decade?
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