Who should shoulder the cost for repeatedly evacuating New Orleans & vicinity?

Question

Given it's current demise and the repeated evacuations in line until the city is completely rebuilt, does the burden lie with U.S.Taxpayers? Or the State of Louisiana? The City Itself? Would your answer apply to other cities affected by twisters, tornadoes,floods,earthquakes, etc? Why? What IS the solution?

Answer 1

Like any disaster anywhere it is up to anyone who is fortunate enough to not be there and lose everything. they care about. It is up to caring people every where to help those less fortunate. if your home was hit by a tornado or lightning. If everything you and your Friends, neighbors and family owned was washed away in a flood, who would you expect to help you, then imagine that instance spreading out in ripples to everything and everywhere that is familiar to you, now who do you expect to help. continue on to add in your friends or family that live in other areas of the country, and they are having another kind of disaster, wildfires, floods, earthquakes,, now who helps them?..What I'm trying to say is that these sistuations can not be looked at as one city, or area, and help has to come from everywhere, and everyone,

Answer 2

Unless we plan to live in the People's Republic of America, we should not rebuild and tell those that live there "buyer beware".

Take the coastline property for parks and recreation.

Homeowners should have flood and tornado insurance.  The taxpayers should not have to pay for everything on top of paying for everything.  Soon, I will just grab a box and live under a tree cause it's not worth working anymore.

Answer 3

The Government is responsible for the safety and well being of its citizens in any civilised country

Answer 4

the state of Louisiana

Answer 5

Well this is an important question. It should not be the national taxpayers... I believe that the residents of a city in a high risk zone should pay for the privilege of living there.

But this cuts right to one of the biggest controversies of our times. At this point only hallucinatory people think there is no global climate change happening. I won't debate the causes, but the thing is happening... and regions of the country that had these problems in the past have them with much more frequency now.

What's also obvious is that the majority of populations live in coastal regions (that's where all the high density cities are for the most part)...

so coming up with the right solution is important.

I don't know the solution. But I believe we can't come up with one with so many people having their heads stuck in the sand about the underlying problem.

There's a reason the insurance companies are going bust.

Time to shut off the hate-Gore hard heads and face the facts.

Like I said, I don't ascribe to blaming anyone for the base problem, I'm just suggesting real dialogue and not denial is in order for us to solve this critical problem.

edit: it is interesting to note that China, an authoritarian repressive country, seems to care more about its citizens than the US. The Earthquakes of last month caused much more damage than this storm will but somehow the state was able to rehouse, feed and help the populace.

What's with our country? Oh yeah. Money comes first.