Just like the stoopid people who build homes on reclaimed MIssissippi flood plain, thinking it'll never flood again. Let's get the Federal Gummint out of the flood insurance business too.
Who ARE you, and what have you done with Chuck???
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Joe Baker, who marvels that Chuck makes good sense on this one.
"Luck" is what happens when preparation meets opportunity -- Seneca
Joe Baker wrote:
Who ARE you, and what have you done with Chuck???
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Joe Baker, who marvels that Chuck makes good sense on this one.
There are some things that are just damned stupid to me (agricultural subsitidies and price controls are another) that just seem like the government's attempt to defy nature.
OTOH, I've stopped folliowing the campaign circus. Both parties it seems to me have deserted their constituencies and are basically committed toward doing the same thing, and arguing about stoopid things in the meantime.
Joe Baker wrote:
Who ARE you, and what have you done with Chuck???
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Joe Baker, who marvels that Chuck makes good sense on this one.
There are some things that are just damned stupid to me (agricultural subsitidies and price controls are another) that just seem like the government's attempt to defy nature.
OTOH, I've stopped folliowing the campaign circus. Both parties it seems to me have deserted their constituencies and are basically committed toward doing the same thing, and arguing about stoopid things in the meantime.
Chuck, you sound like a guy with a conservative awakening going on!!! You've precisely identified the reason conservatives don't like big government: because, in its arrogance, big government thinks it can give everyone equal (and excellent) outcomes in life, solve all of our problem, make our cereal stay crunchy (even in milk!) -- overcoming not only nature, but our own bad choices as well!! Conservatives know that wishing your actions were helpful when in fact they are wasteful and oppressive doesn't make what you're doing good; that when not only common sense but EXPERIENCE tells you that your well-intentioned efforts are counterproductive, you should stop. Liberalism holds up as its highest value "good intentions". The great irony of modern liberalism is that, as it does all the things it does trying in vain to make things better, it often makes things worse by calling common-sense statements like Chuck's 'heresy'.
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Joe Baker, adding that this applies to both Democrat liberals and Republican liberals -- but more so to Democrats.
"Luck" is what happens when preparation meets opportunity -- Seneca
I agree 100%. He left out a few other's that should be dealt with too.
Like the idiots building cities on a fault line, or multi-million dollar houses in a region known for uncontrollable wildfires, or on the sides of snow covered mountaions, surprized by and avalanche. And the list goes on.
Way too much money is spent on "natural disasters" which were clearly likely to happen. FEMA should be resticted to unexpected events. Like Mt. St. Hellens, the Fed. BUilding in OK, and the WTC attacks, or tornados in areas seldom affected by them.
