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E-PrinceIn the fall of 2008, a perfect storm of economic panic and impatience with the Republican Party helped herald Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States. Forgotten amid the chaos and celebration was an actual storm ...(back to the article)
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Call me insensitive, but too much funding emphasis on disaster rebuilding assistance has its own problems. For the large areas of houses swept into the sea, one should ask why they should be rebuilt at all. A category 2 storm is not particularly out of the ordinary, and I don't think taxpayers should be perpetually subsidizing oceanfront homes in florida and the gulf with de-facto disaster insurance when the disasters are easily forseable and quite preventable, by building somewhere other than in a flood-prone zone.
The economic bailout affects more people than a storm in Texas, period.
great slideshow!
This shows where this country's priorites are, with money, not citizens. Greed is the rule of the day. This is not the country I was taught to love.