And next-time Southern California has a big Earthquake we can just up and move 20 million people (about 100 times as many as in New Orleans, BTW). Wouldn't want to just build all those houses right back there again. We'll move everyone to Nevada. It's not far. They'll love it there.
Next time a Hurricane hits the Eastern Seaboard -- let's just not worry about it. We've spent orders of magnitude more money repairing the Eastern Seaboard cities after Hurricanes since the last time New Orleans got hit, why should we keep doing that? I'm tired of paying taxes to keep rebuilding and higher insurance premiums because they choose to live there. Let's just abandon the entire Hurricane Target known as Florida. Nothing there but old people and Cubans anyhow, right?
Next time Chicago, Minneapolis, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, etc have massive snow storms, just move the cities. Why do we keep bailing them out. Declaring them emergency areas practically every year and having to send in the National Guard to help people.
And all those farmers and people along the Mississippi River. Millions of you. You know who you are. I'm always having to rebuild your little piss-ant towns.
Nevada. Yes. That's it. We're going to move the entire country to Nevada. Damn near the only place that doesn't, and can't be expected to, regularly receive federal aid for some natural disaster or something. It's safe there. No tornadoes, no Earthquakes, no floods, no snowstorms, and not many big earthquakes. That way we can't [censored] about it anymore.
I'm not real keen on the idea of building a city right back there again either. But the people of New Orleans have paid taxes to rebuild every other area of this country sometimes multiple times over. Do you think they liked doing that either? Why should it be any different when their city is destroyed?