New Orleans - Katrina

New Orleans…it is amazing how bad it is down there. Very sad stories. I can’t imagine losing family, friends, home, all possessions, neighborhoods, everything familiar. And "Fats" Domino is missing.

My prayers are that the survivors might find God and a true relationship with Him through Jesus Christ is all this. God is good all the time! Even in tragedy He is working.

However … who’s idea was it to live 5-10’ below sea level? What were they thinking … with a 20 mile long lake lurking over them just beyond a levee? Whose idea was that?

So now we have 1000’s dead and billions and billions of property damage. Who’s going to pay for it? We are. Our government will give billions. Our insurance companies will pay out billions. Therefore, our taxes will go up and insurance rates will go up. So who pays for these people’s lack of judgment, you and me.

We, in the northwest, live in an area of the country that has virtually no natural disasters that cost the rest of the country, but we pay for them to live in hurricane country below sea level. Where is the fairness in that?

Is it a good idea to rebuild these areas of New Orleans that are below sea level? I think not. Move north, man.

I like what JACK CHAMBLESS, ECONOMICS PROFESSOR, VALENCIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE said to FOXNEWS in response to the question “You don’t believe one taxpayer dollar should go toward rebuilding the city of New Orleans?”:

“Well, if we look at Article One, Section Eight of the United States Constitution — and I encourage all Americans to look at that before we start opening up our tax coffers to pay for all of this — we have every obligation to provide for New Orleans in terms of charity, private charity from one person to the other.

But the founding fathers never intended, Article One, section Eight of the Constitution, never intended to provide one dollar of taxpayer dollars to pay for any disaster or anything that we might call charity. What we now have is the law of unintended consequences taking place, where FEMA has come into New Orleans, a place where, ecologically, it makes no sense to have levees keeping the Mississippi River from flooding into New Orleans, like it naturally should.

Now with FEMA bailing out Louisiana, bailing out Florida and lowering the overall cost of living in these places, we have people with no incentive to leave. And the law of unintended consequences means that more people are dying with every one of these storms. They're becoming more and more expensive, more and more property loss, just because the federal government has violated the Constitution to provide for these funds.”