I have said it before so this shouldn't be a surprize but FEMA is and has been insolvent prior to Katrina/Rita. FEMA makes the SS trust fund look like Apple stock. Poor management and subsidizing flood premiums for the last 25 years has done them in and no amount of increases will ever fix it. There is no common sense used in any government program; yours, mine, or my neighbors. It's extremely frustrating to see $20 + million dollar structures (South Cameron High School, Johnson's Bayou School) being built on the guise of repopulating Cameron Parish when nobody down there can afford insurance coverage and Kids. Can you imagine how much insurance costs for those structures in order to educate at most 300 kids and when they graduate there will not be anymore behind them? What happens to those buildings when they no longer have students in them, who will continue to pay for the gov't required insurance premiums?
OK, rant is over so go back to your regularly scheduled program.
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