Ron DeSantis Cooks Breakfast At Waffle House For Hurricane First Responders

Ummm we had many pages on a thread condemning Trump for waiting 2 weeks to go to Puerto Rico.

 

liberals are like biden, they cannot remember what they had for dinner last night, much less 3 or 4 years ago.

 

Your Biden post was the kind of dumb mindless thing our MAGA posters put up all the time. I used to think you were better than those guys, but I'm not so sure anymore. Biden will be visiting Florida on Wednesday. I guess if he visited Florida first and PR second you'd be ok with it? It's fine to criticize Biden but criticize him for something that actually matters. Otherwise you lose credibility and sound like our MAGA posters. But maybe that's what you are now.

 

I suspect most of the complaints were about what he actually did and said there rather than when he did it.

 

So just to be clear, you think the US citizens living in PR are less important than those living in Florida?

 

Flood insurance is run by FEMA, not private insurance. And no, when Sandy happened, that wasn't enough because such high population centers were largely destroyed by floods.

 

Do you think Puerto Rico is out of the country? Because it isn't...

 

FEMA is too inefficient... that money could be better spent by the states. And not all states are equal when it comes to FEMA type assistance.

 

FEMA does it specifically because the states can't handle it. If the state of Florida had to handle all the flood claims coming into the state this year from this storm but couldn't draw funds from the people in other places with flood insurance but who didn't flood this year, how do you suppose they would do that?

 

BUUUUUURRRRRNNNN

 

Florida can... we have the best governor for that kind of job. But you might be right, many states might not be up to the challenge that a natural disaster brings to the state. Our state fortunately, and unfortunately, has good experience with effective and quick disaster relief.

But states like Louisiana seem to get bogged down, no matter who they have as their governor. Same with the fire prone state in the west. You'd think they had a better strategy to prevent their forest fires from getting uncontrollable in the first place.

 

Yeah, the problem is math. But sure, Ron DeSantis changes the rules of math. So tell me, ballpark, what is the flood insurance expenditure going to be and how much money do people in Florida pay into flood insurance per year? Last estimate that I saw put the estimate at around $47 billion, with most of that coming from flooding. Even if we assume only half of it will come from flood insurance, we would be talking about something like $1,100 from every single person (not household) in the state of Florida to recover from this one storm.

 

To summarize the arguments in this thread…

 

First of all, I have a big problem with any federal agency taking in money from insurance companies for flooding insurance, then filtering it through the government bureaucracy, just to pay it back to the states. That is very inefficient. Let the states take that federal money and let our states, like Florida, spend that money at the state level.

 

I’ve noticed the same thing.

Last time I checked Biden was the President of Puerto Rico too.

 

Okay, so how are you going to find ~$1,100 per person from just the state of Florida to just pay for this storm? Or are you going to ask the feds for money?

 

As a point of reference, that’s about 1.6x what Florida spends on K-12 education, including all state, local, and federal funding.

 

What? Let's do some simple math here...

22,085,563 x 1,100 equals $22,229.119,300.00

That number highlighted in blue is for every person in the state of Florida, because you said every said every person from Florida.

Are you expecting top pay that much every year for a storm in relief, IOW, do you think that we have to come up with that much money every single year? No... that's not how it works.. If we take 100 dollars per year off of every property and buildings' insurance policy then we'd have more money in savings as a state to cover these types disasters.



Florida Population 2022 (Demographics, Maps, Graphs)

 

Yes, people who criticize both Biden and Trump can only be described as full on MAGA. Incredibly stupid post.

 

yikes.