[TheForge] OT Threads ?

[Demon Buddha]

Dave Mudge wrote:
> Well, I guess that means that we will have to move everyone out of
> California because they have far more earthquakes than the gulf coast has
> hurricanes. What about the volcanoes in Washington? the tornadoes through
> the Midwest? Where is the SAFE place to live?
> 

	There is no safe place.  That said, it is clear that some places are 
less safe than others, at least in less-than-geological times frames. 
The hurricane belt is, on the average, more hazardous than other places 
like Seattle.  Doesn't mean Seattle can't be wiped off the earth, but 
places like Seattle do not experience regular devastation the way places 
like Florida do.  It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that on 
the whole and in the shorter term, living in a place like FL is riskier 
than WA fro the standpoint of severe weather.

I don't think that taxpayers should be forced to bail out other 
taxpayers.  If they volunteer, that is fine, but forcing them is 
contrary to everything the notion of liberty stands for.

I'm all for the people of NO rebuilding if that is what they choose.  It 
is their right to do it and I wish them all success.  But I don't 
support the use of tax money for it.