Gary DeMar Is Tired of Bailing Out Flood Victims

And so am I. Right, so Gary DeMar sounds cranky, and as if he may not have enjoyed his visit to New Orleans. Maybe you have to be a person who, uh, would not voluntarily spend a vacation in New Orleans, to appreciate this article...

http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/08/im-tired-of-paying-for-people-who-live-below-sea-level/

...but he has a point. Every part of the country is vulnerable to some kind of weather disaster. When people disperse themselves widely over the land (as the Bible teaches) and avoid overpopulation, weather disasters do much less damage, and communities have a reasonable chance of rebuilding themselves without federal bailouts. When people clump together into slumlike conditions, even heavy rain can cause massive deaths, plagues, and property destruction. And we all need to reconsider how many Katrina-sized disasters we as a nation can afford to keep on paying for.

Am I contradicting what I posted, earlier this week, about those relatives who stayed in their boarded-up houses in St. Petersburg, listening for the sound trucks braying "Evacuate!" to leave their neighborhood, through hurricane after hurricane for fifty-some years? By no means. They liked Florida; they had a right to live in Florida. They never asked anybody else to pay for whatever damage hurricanes did to their houses in Florida, either.

Which wasn't much. I am not committed to an opinion on whether they were protected because they were sincere and radical Christians, or were merely a blip in the statistics. All I know for sure is that, whenever phone calls got through to them after a storm, all they reported were lights out or messes in the yard. Nothing they couldn't handle, thank you very much.

If only to mess with Gary DeMar's mind, I should mention that they were lifelong diehard Democrats. Being a Democrat does not actually cause people to become freeloaders--or freebooters. There are Democrats who choose to take care of themselves and even help other people. (But most of the ones I know personally seem to be very old and/or dead.) These are the people who have a right to be Democrats, and to live in Florida. Or California. Or New Orleans. They are the salt of the earth, and any place should only have more of them.

I could seriously believe that God whacked me on the wrist for hesitating to offer a room to an evacuee after Hurricane Katrina. The room was there, ready for rent; I should have had faith that a person from New Orleans might have been a good renter. I didn't. So I never got a good renter and, before all the evacuees went home, found myself temporarily sharing a house with the perfect renter--who was from New Orleans. I've shared this story before. Somebody out there needs to see it again.

Yes, we should have compassion toward victims of natural disasters. Some disaster or other can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time; our home might be wrecked next.

Yes, we should try to keep our compassion simple, efficient, based on what actually happens, rather than bloating the insurance industry with efforts to prepay for "safety" that only end up making scam artists rich, too. We need to face the facts. There is no safety in this world. Some things can be predicted: for example, that insurance companies depend on their ability to suck in millions of dollars and rarely pay back any of their loot, and that if the federal government is authorized to become an insurance company it will become the fattest and ugliest of them all.

For other things, like our own ability to survive disasters and rebuild our own homes, we need to rediscover our own individual common sense and backbones. The Cat Sanctuary Blog started when, and because, the Cat Sanctuary (which is my home) was damaged by a freak cyclone that shouldn't have been able to blow through the mountains but did. Some effects of the cyclone are still visible in my home. You don't see me whining for Big Government to fix it. You see me inviting readers, every few days, to pay for the pleasure youall evidently find in reading this blog, and even post your own ads on this blog, in order to (among other things) help pay for the repairs the house needs...but you don't see me sitting around and whining for handouts.

What you do see: After observing how the September 11 attack affected New York, how Hurricane Katrina affected New Orleans, and how our local "planners" blithely rolled on with their schemes to turn Washington into a crowded death trap similar to New York and New Orleans, you see me getting out of Washington. I'll always have fond memories of Washington. I'll always enjoy reading the news from Washington. I may even go back now and then to shop or visit friends. I will never live in Washington again, because I realize that the best way to protect the lives of those who still want to live in Washington is to avoid adding even one more body to the local population density.

Dense populations are death traps...and "planners" who doubletalk about increasing population density as a "Green Thing," because slum dwellers will be less likely to own or drive cars, need to be unmasked. Yes, reducing the human population could be considered a "Green Thing," even if we're talking about reducing the human population overall rather than reducing the local population density...but encouraging people to pack themselves into slums is not a humanitarian, ethically acceptable way to reduce the population.