Also, of course people will die, not to mention have their lives ruined. Saying there's no excess mortality from people having their homes destroyed and never rebuilt, infrastructure ruined, etc, etc is preposterous. I mean if that's the case why build it to begin with?
Bullshit. Greater Houston is the fifth largest metropolitan area in the country with ~6.5M people. It's the second busiest port in the country interfacing with both trucking & railroads, home to major oil refineries & all sorts of business that contribute to the general welfare of everybody. The effects of this disaster will ripple out into a much, much broader swath of America than you imagine. Helping them out is helping ourselves out.
If you want to base your attitude on characterizations of Texans as racist degens you're woofing up the wrong tree when it comes to Houston because it's actually a very diverse majority-minority city that votes blue for the most part. It'd be really shitty to think that should make a difference, anyway.
Stick to the facts in your shilling. It's not hard. You almost got halfway there with your 6.5M http://www.nglog.com/about-us/the_usas_busiest_ports
Break out the checkbook fellow liberals, it's time to write a big fat "thank you" check to deplorables and the US state that is arguably more responsible for climate change than half of the rest of the earth. The most hilarious part about this is all the Houston Oil executives who spent their whole careers causing this whole situation and who will have their losses covered by dumb libtards like you and I because "otherwise people will die".
You know who's really going to die? My grandchildren, from climate change. Thanks @Jhhnn for thinking about the people that really matter: Deplorables who might have to be wet a few hours and spend some of their savings on fixing their trailers.
Our national conversation on Hurricane Harvey should be much like those about Charlottesville, Va., or Flint, Mich. But as the Houston area braces for much more flooding, that won’t happen until receding floodwaters reveal the dangerously gaping holes of disparity between white haves and black have-nots.
Right now the nation just sees flooding and burly, boat-owning white dudes saving people from immediate disaster. There’s no talk of what is happening to Houston’s vast population of disproportionately low-income black and brown residents. And public officials, like Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott—each playing public hot potato over who will, ultimately, bear responsibility for a lackluster response—don’t seem to care about that part, either. And forget about any shred of empathy from President Donald Trump.
Yet the socioeconomic aspect of Harvey is the biggest part of the story. We’re already seeing those random television reports of frustrated black women stuck in flooded apartment buildings, getting busy signals for 911 and helplessly watching helicopters fly overhead.
"Of course people will die"? You'll have to explain that one to me. Are you saying that Texas wouldn't be able run up its debt to address issues from natural disasters? Are you saying that Texas is completely hopeless unless the federal government steps in? I fail to see how the federal government not helping leads to people dying, especially in this particular case.
Bullshit. Greater Houston is the fifth largest metropolitan area in the country with ~6.5M people. It's the second busiest port in the country interfacing with both trucking & railroads, home to major oil refineries & all sorts of business that contribute to the general welfare of everybody. The effects of this disaster will ripple out into a much, much broader swath of America than you imagine. Helping them out is helping ourselves out.
If you want to base your attitude on characterizations of Texans as racist degens you're woofing up the wrong tree when it comes to Houston because it's actually a very diverse majority-minority city that votes blue for the most part. It'd be really shitty to think that should make a difference, anyway.
Texas is like Greece in that it doesn't issue currency and our system isn't set up for them to cover things like this. This is the point of the federal government.
I'm baffled as to why you would support federal assistance for everything except if it's for who you view as Republicans. If that's the case you're just like Ted Cruz.
... conservatives from southern states (even Texas, lul) were against disaster relief for Northeast states during hurricane sandy?
Both Cruz and Conryn were against relief for the Northeast now they want handouts. This is bullshit. Fuck Texas, imo. I think the free market should sort this one out.
Actually Texas isn't even in the top ten. Kudos to New York and California...
In most states, those rainy day funds are meant to cover severe budget shortfalls, and not large-scale natural disasters; since it is assumed that when a federal disaster area is declared, states/municipalities will receive federal aid, instead of people acting like dickless weasels because of stupid things people in Congress have done.You didn't answer my question and instead decided to argue against a straw man.
Btw Texas has a rainy day fund of over 9 billion and its been said that Harvey has been way less destructive compared to sandy or Katrina.
You didn't answer my question and instead decided to argue against a straw man.
Btw Texas has a rainy day fund of over 9 billion and its been said that Harvey has been way less destructive compared to sandy or Katrina.
I believe he has relatives in that area and he has concern for their safety and well-being.
The solution is to help out now but as Zin stated, make those living on the ocean pay full freight for living on ocean property via mandatory insurance that reflect the actual hurricane risks. The government should not be in the business of encouraging people to live in areas inordinately vulnerable to catastrophe.
Like California and west coastline with the fires and earthquakes, the entire midwest with flooding and tornadoes.
Like that?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/01/weekinreview/01safe.html
Please answer my question.
Republican mantra, "we don't need no stinking regulations". I would think articles like this will need a rewrite...Story in WAPO on how citizens of Houston has eschewed building codes in favor no limits on building and standards. They have also not properly planned drainage and flooding, and habitually put off floodwaters projects.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/harvey-urban-planning
Also there are stories on the national flood insurance, already $24B in debt, is in need of serious reform.
Lastly, some of the Obama era regs Trump is busy killing was orders for federal transportation projects to consider/mitigate impacts of natural disasters vis a vis climate change. IE flooding.
What it looks like is we are fucking this up big time, and need to start dealing with the impacts of climate change and natural flood disasters in a serious way. We have to stop the bail outs for foolish local zoning laws by enforcing some accountability on the local level.
Otherwise everyone else will just keep paying to constantly rebuild coastal communities fated to ever more damage from harsher storms.
Stick to the facts in your shilling. It's not hard. You almost got halfway there with your 6.5M http://www.nglog.com/about-us/the_usas_busiest_ports
Break out the checkbook fellow liberals, it's time to write a big fat "thank you" check to deplorables and the US state that is arguably more responsible for climate change than half of the rest of the earth. The most hilarious part about this is all the Houston Oil executives who spent their whole careers causing this whole situation and who will have their losses covered by dumb libtards like you and I because "otherwise people will die".
It is the busiest port in the United States in terms of foreign tonnage, second-busiest in the United States in terms of overall tonnage