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[Oiled]

Jesus was a Commie!


I think it's time for Gulf states and the peninsula to recognize that living on a beach or anywhere on a barrier island is asking for it.  If you are wealthy and want to keep rebuilding, on your own dime, every time your house turns to toothpicks, have at it, but you shouldn't ask taxpayers to fund your idiocy.  Tax money should be helping poorer folk in Dunbar, rather than one percenters on Sanibel. 

[Espnthree]

Jesus was a Commie!


I think it's time for Gulf states and the peninsula to recognize that living on a beach or anywhere on a barrier island is asking for it.  If you are wealthy and want to keep rebuilding, on your own dime, every time your house turns to toothpicks, have at it, but you shouldn't ask taxpayers to fund your idiocy.  Tax money should be helping poorer folk in Dunbar, rather than one percenters on Sanibel.

Rebuilding mansions requires adequate insurance coverage which the one per centers pay handsomely for. Utilities and causeways, etc, are for everyone, rich or poor, hence the need for government funds which  use tax money the one per centers also pay for at much higher rates.

[Hairy Lime]

Jesus was a Commie!

The apostles certainly were. After all, the gave us from each according to their ability to each according to their need.

I think it's time for Gulf states and the peninsula to recognize that living on a beach or anywhere on a barrier island is asking for it.  If you are wealthy and want to keep rebuilding, on your own dime, every time your house turns to toothpicks, have at it, but you shouldn't ask taxpayers to fund your idiocy.  Tax money should be helping poorer folk in Dunbar, rather than one percenters on Sanibel.

Having been there many times let me just stand up for the relative economic diversity of Sanibel.

[Holly Martins]

https://twitter.com/christianwalk1r/status/1577284445367042049

Walker's family clearly doesn't trust him or believe his lies.  A tad incoherent at times, but I thought this kid's take was spot on.

[Holly Martins]

Jesus was a Commie!


I think it's time for Gulf states and the peninsula to recognize that living on a beach or anywhere on a barrier island is asking for it.  If you are wealthy and want to keep rebuilding, on your own dime, every time your house turns to toothpicks, have at it, but you shouldn't ask taxpayers to fund your idiocy.  Tax money should be helping poorer folk in Dunbar, rather than one percenters on Sanibel.

Rebuilding mansions requires adequate insurance coverage which the one per centers pay handsomely for. Utilities and causeways, etc, are for everyone, rich or poor, hence the need for government funds which  use tax money the one per centers also pay for at much higher rates.

So?  None of that negates the point that humble Dunbar should be getting the help that more scenic and affluent places are getting.  No one is questioning bridges and power lines.  But homes may have to move inland.  Building mansions that keep washing into the sea is wasteful.  Insurance underwriters are already pulling out of low lying areas.  Beaches on a barrier island are great, but those residents who serve the frolicking tourists need safer dwellings away from the shore.  Happy if working class people get help, but subsidizing views for the rich is not where taxes should be going.  We already proscribe building submersible houses along many rivers, where people are disallowed from building in flood plains.  Time to recognize that many shores in Florida are similar hazard areas.

[Espnthree]

Jesus was a Commie!


I think it's time for Gulf states and the peninsula to recognize that living on a beach or anywhere on a barrier island is asking for it.  If you are wealthy and want to keep rebuilding, on your own dime, every time your house turns to toothpicks, have at it, but you shouldn't ask taxpayers to fund your idiocy.  Tax money should be helping poorer folk in Dunbar, rather than one percenters on Sanibel.

Rebuilding mansions requires adequate insurance coverage which the one per centers pay handsomely for. Utilities and causeways, etc, are for everyone, rich or poor, hence the need for government funds which  use tax money the one per centers also pay for at much higher rates.

So?  None of that negates the point that humble Dunbar should be getting the help that more scenic and affluent places are getting.  No one is questioning bridges and power lines.  But homes may have to move inland.  Building mansions that keep washing into the sea is wasteful.  Insurance underwriters are already pulling out of low lying areas.  Beaches on a barrier island are great, but those residents who serve the frolicking tourists need safer dwellings away from the shore.  Happy if working class people get help, but subsidizing views for the rich is not where taxes should be going.  We already proscribe building submersible houses along many rivers, where people are disallowed from building in flood plains.  Time to recognize that many shores in Florida are similar hazard areas.

Comeback sometime when you are sober.
Choosing a barrier Island( or Marthas Vinyard) to live in or play at is an individual choice an adds  to the diversity of lifestyles , not to mention jobs and livelihoods.
If they are hazards to you stay inSouth Dakota.

[LarryBnDC]

Jesus was a Commie!


I think it's time for Gulf states and the peninsula to recognize that living on a beach or anywhere on a barrier island is asking for it.  If you are wealthy and want to keep rebuilding, on your own dime, every time your house turns to toothpicks, have at it, but you shouldn't ask taxpayers to fund your idiocy.  Tax money should be helping poorer folk in Dunbar, rather than one percenters on Sanibel.

Rebuilding mansions requires adequate insurance coverage which the one per centers pay handsomely for. Utilities and causeways, etc, are for everyone, rich or poor, hence the need for government funds which  use tax money the one per centers also pay for at much higher rates.

So?  None of that negates the point that humble Dunbar should be getting the help that more scenic and affluent places are getting.  No one is questioning bridges and power lines.  But homes may have to move inland.  Building mansions that keep washing into the sea is wasteful.  Insurance underwriters are already pulling out of low lying areas.  Beaches on a barrier island are great, but those residents who serve the frolicking tourists need safer dwellings away from the shore.  Happy if working class people get help, but subsidizing views for the rich is not where taxes should be going.  We already proscribe building submersible houses along many rivers, where people are disallowed from building in flood plains.  Time to recognize that many shores in Florida are similar hazard areas.

Comeback sometime when you are sober.
Choosing a barrier Island( or Marthas Vinyard) to live in or play at is an individual choice an adds  to the diversity of lifestyles , not to mention jobs and livelihoods.
If they are hazards to you stay inSouth Dakota.

I guess you missed the part about the Florida property insurance industry imploding before Ian?

[Holly Martins]

He never argues with the point actually made.   No one said someone couldn't choose to live on a barrier island or flood plain.  Just that governments or insurers should not underwrite it, over and over.  Sure, someone who likes to gamble can put a temporary dwelling someplace that gets blasted with God's powerwasher every few years, and duck the whole permitting procedure.  And they should assume the risk for that lifestyle.

  And LOL Ward suddenly championing "the diversity of lifestyles," as if he's ever championed anything other than soft landings for the monied class. 

One alternative to endless rebuilding of flood/storm damaged properties:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/waterfront-retreat-a-bay-community-faces-rising-seas-and-buyouts

[kidcarter8]

So....

about this Georgia abortion clinic overcharging.......

700 bucks?

[Yankguy1]

When he was avoiding the land mines of his personal Viet Nam, Trump never paid that much

[Espnthree]

He never argues with the point actually made.   No one said someone couldn't choose to live on a barrier island or flood plain.  Just that governments or insurers should not underwrite it, over and over. 

To the point.  Why not?   The expense of that structure being destroyed by nature is borne by the owner and his insurance Company.
The government  has the power to deny building.

[bambu.]

What I learnt from Youtube today:

Take important photos with a camera-SD card as well as with your phone...because if you put your phone in for repair the shop might damage your phone and your photos could be lost forever.

[LarryBnDC]

So....

about this Georgia abortion clinic overcharging.......

700 bucks?

It was like 500 and change. The 700 is from the personal check he wrote to reimburse the girlfriend with a dollop of sweetener added.

[LarryBnDC]

He never argues with the point actually made.   No one said someone couldn't choose to live on a barrier island or flood plain.  Just that governments or insurers should not underwrite it, over and over. 

To the point.  Why not?   The expense of that structure being destroyed by nature is borne by the owner and his insurance Company.
The government  has the power to deny building.

Not everyone has a manse on the beach. Folks a mile inland can not get coverage

[LarryBnDC]

What I learnt from Youtube today:

Take important photos with a camera-SD card as well as with your phone...because if you put your phone in for repair the shop might damage your phone and your photos could be lost forever.

What I know is take my photos on my phone and upload them to my iCloud account.

Though I must say YouTube came in handy when I repaired my front loading washing machine a while back.