Thank you, and thanks for the changes on * isdupe

@Yossarian FEMA's response to Hurricane Katrina was a fucking disaster.

If you treat people as children incapable of thinking ahead and worrying about disasters and such, you'll likely get more of that reckless behavior. Let them come up with their own solutions that don't involve imposing costs on others to support a failure of an institution, and they'll eventually learn to deal with problems more responsibly.

If it bothers you that an insurance company might take 10, 20, or 30% profit, why doesn't it bother you when government wastes a much bigger percentage of your tax dollars doing the same thing with no profits to show for it?

I'd appreciate it if you'd continue this discussion in the appropriate topic, not on my profile, thanks.