Being a dirtbag in a disaster area may not be half bad. Being a dirtbag under normal circumstances has it's appeal: all the freedoms of adulthood, with none of the responsibilities. But dirtbags in disaster areas stand to make windfall profits. Cretinous New Orleans project-dwellers who neither owned a home nor aspired to are now having free houses thrown at them in Texas, Tennessee, and elsewhere. People who rolled the dice and chose not to buy flood insurance may very well get to reap the benefits of flood insurance for free, due to the disgusting lawsuit filed by a most foul attorney general on their behalf. Never mind that it will violate legally binding contracts willingly entered into and agreed upon, and, further, approved by state regulators more times than can be counted. And never mind that every business or individual that ever contemplates doing business in that dastardly attorney general's state is going to think twice before doing so, since a precedent will be set for violating the most transparent and honest of contracts. For giving money to people who have no rightful claim on it is more important. What apparently is not important is fairness to those who did pay for flood insurance. Reimbursing those who paid premiums for decades in the event of Jim Hood's asinine lawsuit succeeding is not part of the plan. For those who thought taking care of themselves and their homes was a good idea and planned accordingly for a disaster everyone hoped would never come aren't dirtbags. And, due to their non-dirtbag status, they are entitled to nothing.
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Perplexity Every now and then, for very brief, fleeting moments, I'm able to put the Katrina destruction out of my mind. It is in such moments of lucidity that I ponder such matters as the wisdom of FEMA setting up hundreds or thousands of trailers on the Gulf Coast with the better part of 2 months of hurricane season remaining. If anyone asked me to list the top three structures most likely to fail during a hurricane (or a tropical storm, or a particularly nasty thunderstorm), I'd be hard-pressed to say what numbers 3 and 2 would be. But trailers would absolutely, beyond a shadow of a doubt be number one. Is this the safest idea? I'm not suggesting I have a better idea, for desperate times call for desperate measures, and all that. But it's something to ponder.
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