Residents were also told,  ”I cannot overemphasize the danger that is facing us,” Gov. Rick Perry of Texas said at a news conference in Austin.

The head of Fema held a press conference in Houston saying, ”This is not a storm to gamble with,” Mr. Chertoff said. “It’s large. It’s powerful.”

Now, however, you and I are watching our hard earned dollars being wasted by our government because, as CNN reports, “Galveston had ordered an evacuation before Ike crashed into the area early Saturday as a Category 2 hurricane, but many residents stayed on the island.”

Cnn reports that nearly 2000 people have had to be rescued by air and sea. One pair of breeders that should have been left for dead, “Among the coastal Texas residents who found themselves in trouble after Ike hit were Paul and Kathi Norton. They had overslept as Ike closed in on their home.”

Now we are forced to subsidize the rescue of mouth breathers such as these.

People too stupid, (and Texas is rife with them), to heed repeated warnings to evacuate should be left to fend for themselves. 

This will not happen as Texas, unlike New Orleans, is full of white republican voters.

Not that I have any sympathy for New Orleans. That we subsidize federal insurance for people who have chosen to live in a bowl, below sea level, surrounded by levees, in a known major hurricane zone is beyond stupifying. 

The only proper solution to the story in Texas is for all of those who smartly got out of the way of the nasty hurricane to line up on the shore of the receding flood waters and wave goodbye and good riddance to their learning disabled neighbors as they float away on the k-mart flotsam that defined their useless lives.

http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/08/annals_of_idiocy.php

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/09/the_future_of_u.html

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