Okay, the cowboys won, it was ugly, but we won. I'm over my Hollywood name sucking....but I am not over seeing BUSHCLINTONCOASTALRELIEF.COM.
Number one, their names together is weird.
I live in the TX Panhandle. On a hill (or what could be construed as one in this area...you can't actually see it but you can see lights from several other towns on a clear night, ergo, you're on a hill.) I don't spend the extra money for flood insurance. Don't think I'll need it but if it happens and my home floods...my bad.
I live in "Tornado Alley"...yep, got full coverage on my home, barns, and vehicles. Along with the requisite hail damage. I live here, I KNOW it can happen. Covered.
I also know it CAN snow like a bastard in weird years. I might be cut off from electricity, water, heat and everything else for a while! It happens. Can't ask insurance to cover that. Just good neighbors and good planning. I've got flashlights, batteries, canned goods and blankets. Got a generator on my "to-do" list.
I know where I live. I know it could happen. I know it's not the federal government or the tax payer's fault IF it happens.
If you freaking live next to the OCEAN...you know a hurricane can/will happen. If you live in an area that used to be a SWAMP that the French drained over 250 years ago...and built levies...you can pretty much count on a "natural" disaster. Yes, Hurricane Katrina was devastating and everyone raised hell that the federal government was delayed in responding...but honestly, who knew? And when did the weather become a federal responsibility, or those who chose to stay despite the warnings, and chose to live there knowing the possibilities? They lived below SEA LEVEL! By choice!
If that's not enough, if Katrina wasn't enough of a lesson, the TX coast got hammered....knew wayyy ahead of time (I'm Texan, by the way) and though most of the evacuations weren't mandatory, they were strongly advised. My good buddy Jackie, who was way inland was super prepared! Emptied the freezer, stocked up on water and bread and whatnot. She knew her home was in the path, so she prepared. You can bet your ass she didn't have FEMA on speed dial for her "free shit"! Much too independent, and self supporting.
Okay. Here's the deal. If you want to live by the sea. Do so. Get enough insurance. Or have enough bucks to handle it yourself. You take a risk on the area you live in...prepare for it.
Saw an article on the worst snowstorm in "ages" up in the wilds of Minnesota I think. Electricity, heat, everything knocked out for weeks! Neighbors with snowmobiles checked on neighbor's with canned goods! They all knew it could happen and prepared for it. Not one of them called the federal government and demanded money. Not a dime of government money was sent to those poor, poor frozen people. God love 'em!
It's not the government or the tax payer's responsibility to pay for lack of planning. You chose the good life by the ocean....I myself, will buy my cottage on the outer banks of NC as soon as I'm able. I know the risks though...if it's wiped off the planet by a force of nature...sucks to be me.
If the home we have rehabbed and spent so many hours on is wiped off the face of the earth by a tornado...sucks to be me.
Wouldn't take a dime from the government. I gave that to them for charity. But I'll be damned if I do it again for CLINTONBUSHCOASTALRELIEF.COM
Old adage...ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU...BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY...
I am sick and tired of people complaining their government doesn't give them enough money. Head's up people! That was never in their job description!
They were to be a governing body...not a charity bank.
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Good job Robin.
We forget that when we ask "the government" to take care of us, we invite them into our pocketbook to do it. Once there, who says they will take only what is needed? "Life happens", and we are fools if we expect the government to have a quick fix.
I don't remember the okie's that got wiped out in the dust bowl asking for a handout..they packed up and moved and found work, home and a new life somewhere else..
I felt bad for the people in new orleans that couldn't leave because they had no transportation..but those stupid hard headed texans that refused to leave because 'It's my home and I ain't a leaving it'...stupidity..now they are fishing their bodies out of the rubble...
we just 'thought' it could hit us and we were all prepared..by 1pm friday you couldn't find a D battery in West, Texas..little old ladies were buying candles, flashlights, batteries, etc. food, ice, etc..and we were 500 miles from the eye of the storm...
and...I like being refered to as 'your friend'...
Goddess answered your question...on the comments...she blew it..missed yours completely...oops!...mmaybe she's not perfect after all..
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Every year, Minnesotans and North Dakotans and Montanans dig themselves out of deep snow and move on without asking for help. They are a model of self-reliance for all Americans
Isn't "bail out" kinda of en vogue these days? Whether you need a handout because your investment property is upside down and you can't make the payments, or because the financial institutions gave out too many ill advised loans (or more likely, a combination of the two problems)...or, you built your house somewhere that chances were you were gonna get zapped.
It's endemic to our society for some reason...and your right...it sucks.
It makes morbid sense though...first we felt entitled. Then, because we were "entitled", we overextended and ran up personal debt. Now, when it comes time to pay the piper, we are looking for a bail out.
It's bullshit. You make a bed, you need to sleep in it - even if that bed is six feet under water.
The only way to get out of this bed is to stop spending more than we are making...a good website that I've found is:
http://www.feedthepig.org/
SL
You sound kinda bitter.
Fortunately, the federal government probably has an agency established that can help you overcome all that bitterness.
I think it's called the Bureau of Anti-Bitterness or something.
You can check here.
DJ: thanks D! I hear you!
YellowDog/Jackie/: Just love ya! Even when you "ignore" me! You were just such a supreme example of self sufficiency, hope you don't mind me using ya!
Arby: That's what I'm sayin'!
Scott: (dying to call you 'scooter'!) My parent's bailed me out of my first credit card debt....$178.00 dollars. That was it. Doesn't/shouldn't take another lesson (the original balance was $56.00!) I'm going to check out that website~ Thanks!
Pack: Ah Pack....Who do I need to call to get funding for my anti-bitterness counciling?
I'm not bitter as much as tired. I put in a full day, and then some. Pay my bills, on time. Pay my taxes...on time. For other people's SSI, welfare, etc.....just plum tired. Many govt. programs I support, welfare being one of them. As a short term solution (single mom going to school, needs a little help, kinda thing, she'll pay it back when she graduates....)
Ahhh, I'm tired. I have to get up in the morning and go to work...so I can pay my taxes
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