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Originally Posted by Sharmai  I'm not saying bail people out completely and nor am I saying they should be bailed out ever time a minor flood happens and they didn't have insurance. I'm saying when that rare once-in-a-lifetime event happens then yes the government should bail them out. A once in a 500 year flood is a super rare extreme occurrence and should receive our benefit. A flood that happens every other season is their own damn responsibility.
Just like California has wildfires ever summer if someones house got burned its there own damn fault if they didn't have fire insurance but if those wildfires burned insanely extreme one summer and took out the whole of California then YES that would be extreme enough to bail them out.
A once in a 500 year flood qualifies imo. |
*scratches head* they live on a floodplain. in an area that flooded before. in an area that flooded in many of these people's lifetimes. there were conversations about this area being at risk for a flood. conversations that escalated to the point of asking a federal agency about the area and floods. so the fact that a flood happened, when they had notice it could, and they didnt have insurance.....is entirely mitigated by the fact that the flood was really big?
they are entitled to some support, and some small level of compensation for detrimental reliance on idiotic statements made by the government. not a bailout.