To: SiouxPal who wrote (35415 ) 8/31/2005 3:32:37 PM From: Knighty Tin Read Replies (1) | Respond to The logic is idiotic. Let's see how it jives with other crap Barnes believes: 1. If Americans don't live in the area of New Orleans, what's to stop a foreign government from setting up shop there? Or pirates? Both have done so in the past. It would also make a nice port for illegal aliens to come into the USA. 2. Every place in America and the world has some exposure to some potential natural disaster that can wipe them out. Do we give up farming in the rich soil of the Mississippi flood plain? Or in California's rich Central Valley? If we don't give up farming, we're going to need people to live there. If we do give it up, we're gonna be hungry and our economy will take a big hit. And, hey, travel agents, Hawaii is full of volcanoes. No more tourism or Navy bases there. In fact, we will have to pull our Navy out of most of those occupied islands. Japan has volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis. Support our troops and get them out of there. 3. These disasters prove the inadequacy of private insurance. The insurance companies just aren't big enough to cover New Orleans. When the San Francisco earthquake hit, the American insurance companies reneged on their policies. Lloyds of London paid off, but they had fewer policies in the City and greater assets in the company. Had the San Franciscans done their homework, they would have bought British and thought Yiddish and our huge insurance industry wouldn't exist. 4. Some people did not build there. They were born there. Some were recently born there. Wingnuts want to save unborn babies. Why no concern for born babies? At what age does a human become not worth saving or helping? I'm worried about that answer, as I'm pretty sure I'm off warranty.
