Not a taxpayer problem..

Life is a four letter word and can be tragic to the limits of ones imagination but we, the taxpayers, do not owe for losses outside our control. The citizens of this country, through their states, cities, and churches, have donated millions toward the Katrina surviving families’ welfare. Now The federal government has taken on the task of reconstruction “for these areas of devastation to be rebuilt better than they were before..” This decision abounds with the lack of any common sense.

The Federal Government owes the millions of taxpayers in this country a sound responsible fiscal policy. For The Federal Government to set a precedent for taking responsibility for natural disasters is to step of into an abyss with no known bottom, all at the expense of taxpayers.

To put this in perspective: the family that loses everything in a tornado in Kansas will not get the same response, nor will the mudslide victim in California, nor the family of a victim of a sniper on an Ohio turnpike. That is blatant discrimination. It didn’t happen with the survivors in Oklahoma City, the USS Cole, the drought induced dustbowl of Oklahoma, the Great Depression, the rupture of Mount St. Helen, etc.

We are already faced with huge expenditures in this War on Terrorism. The gas price increases may be the tsunami of our economic life as we know it. Where is the common sense in this short sided reaction to A NATURAL DISASTER?

Was Katrina tragic? Of course. Were there malfunctions of the system? Of Course, but there will never be anybody, least of all a government body, that will have the ability to predict the necessary responses for any and all tragedies, be they natural or man made.

The surviving families obviously need help and by all reports they are getting it. But what we do not need is for taxpayers to be forced to foot the bill for this pick and chose type of discrimination. The precedent has unfortunately already been set with this same brand of knee jerk reaction with the monies doled out to in the aftermath of 9/11. That in itself is tragic, and reflects poorly as a responsible stance by our government.