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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (78541)	10/31/2003 5:36:17 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

What I was actually referring to was where does the reliance on the federal government end, and where do we expect the states to take the primary responsibility for protecting their citizens? California's request for federal money apparently had been made six months before. So they knew six months ago that they had a problem, but didn't get on top of it, or use creative means to address it, like rapidly giving out permits to log the dead trees for firewood or pulpwood if they couldn't be used for lumber. Six months would have been plenty of time to have prepared for this, but they fiddled while waiting for California to burn. And of course the residents who built right in the middle of fire canyons, and the local governments which gave the permits, etc. shouldn't bear any of the responsibility but should expect the insurance companies to make them whole. (Like the people back East who keep rebuilding along the hurricane coasts because the government will keep issuing cheap insurance.) Bah. I'm starting to sound like an old curmudgeon, thinking that people and local governments should take some responsibilty for preventing these disasters, not just waiting around for the feds or somebody else to solve their crises.