"Michael Coslo" wrote in message
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I have no problem in principle with a person building their house on
the lava dome of Mt St Helens if they are so inclined. However, I do
have a problem if he wants me to buy his insurance or build him a new
house when the present one burns up because of it's location. Same goes
for building that wonderful vacation retreat on a barrier island or 50
feet from the ocean. That land is transient, and IMO so is any human
structure built on it

Do you support paying for these peoples stupidity? (The stupidity is in
my opinion - but a pretty good case can be made for it being stupid)

- Mike KB3EIA -


A pretty good case indeed. Here's the insanity, in my opinion. The cost of
things related to this disaster are just gross. Please. I have a
brother-in-law who is down in that area doing sub-contract work for FEMA.
He is down there with his dad. His dad hasn't had a thing to do YET. Been
down there for, I think, around a month--maybe more--at $65.00 a day. The
man (the dad) hasn't worked a day in his life for years, and whines about
any arguments from his kids to get to work. The son (my brother-in-law's
brother) is getting paid somewhere around $3500.00 a month!!

You've surely all heard the rates that are being paid for rooms in cruise
ships, motels, hotels, apartments, etc. for these folks to live? Rates
those places couldn't make under normal circumstances!! When the folks were
over here at the Dallas Convention Ctr., we had an ex-coworker (bless her
beautiful, patient heart) who called us one day and wanted all of us to get
money together from everyone at her former workplace to BUY PLAYSTAIONS for
the kids...and, oh yeah, it would be great if big-screen TVs could be bought
so they could "see better." 'SCUSE ME? A) these folks are in a disaster
situation and should have had tents provided to them nearer to their home
area (we do that in foreign lands...why not here?); B) what happens to these
TVs and Playstations at the end of all this?

I wish you all could walk around on the streets of Dallas downtown and ride
the public transportation and hear the stories of the $2,000.00 credit cards
that were obtained from people that live HERE LOCALLY and simply showed up
and got one. AND, the same credit cards being used by some of the evacuees
to buy drugs, overpriced designer clothing, purses, CDs, etc. One person
was asked why they weren't buying food with it, and "oh, that's being given
to us, we don't need to buy food."

It's just gross the way all this has been handled. Stupidity. Absolutely.
I'm going to look at the newsgroup the next few days (vacation...yahoo!) and
see what's happening.

Kim W5TIT



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