Matt Yglesias noted something weird, which is that America apparently has no issue with single-payer flood insurance. We’re all on the hook for Texas’ lack of zoning and nonexistent oversight, which allows everyone from home builders to chemical plants to clear wetlands and build in the floodplain. Add to that the comically incorrect definition of “500-year flood”, which has occurred three times in as many years, and we end up footing the bill for destructive, irresponsible behavior.
But the kicker is that those who would benefit from single-payer health insurance would not (as Yglesias again notes) seek out cancer.
Trump’s action is one of several ways the president, who has called climate change a hoax
“A permit application for the wall, filed by Trump International Golf Links Ireland and reviewed by POLITICO, explicitly cites global warming and its consequences — increased erosion due to rising sea levels and extreme weather this century — as a chief justification for building the structure.”
In other words, climate change is a hoax until it threatens his ability to drive a half-ton (gross weight) golf cart over his tee boxes and putting greens.
After the Christmas week flood in '91 or '92, when Mansfield Dam outside of Austin, TX was 3 feet from the top of the spillway, the Feds told Travis County to not approve any building in the 100 year flood plain or risk losing Federal $$$s for exactly this reason.
Will the same be true of Houston?
And the Republicans continue to accuse the Democrats of not having any solutions and not being for anything other than knee-jerk opposition to Trump, when the entire focus of his executive orders has been to undo Obama-era regulations designed to protect the public and the environment.
Can we say “projection,” Republicans?