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Why should they care when FEMA will just keep bailing everyone out, subsidized by everyone else's tax dollars. Just look at New Orleans, but now imagine it sca

• bilbo0s 2y ago
  I don't know man? I was working for Halliburton, so I knew there were good reasons to bail Houston/New Orleans out. Just take a cursory look at any map of our energy infrastructure. Conversely, there is little reason to bail out Kansas. There are just some uncomfortable realities about how logistics and infrastructure work in this nation. And that means places like, LA, Norfolk, Seattle, New York, New Orleans, Houston, etc are far more important than, say, Fort Lauderdale or Miami. Not that we shouldn't try to help places like Fort Lauderdale or Miami. But for instance, not that it ever would, but if it came down to Norfolk or Miami, it's gotta be Norfolk we save. If it ever came down to Houston or Savannah, it's gotta be Houston we save. Those choices are just engineering sense. The issue here is Kansas didn't do anything to make that area of its state indispensable to the US. Maybe wind farms or something? I don't know? But having been around the people who make those calls, I can tell you they aren't terribly sentimental by nature. If they are sentimental at all, it is by legal obligation (ie - force) or political pressure.