{"id":186310,"date":"2014-03-05T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/05\/politics-trumps-good-policy\/"},"modified":"2014-03-05T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T00:55:00","slug":"politics-trumps-good-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/05\/politics-trumps-good-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics Trumps Good Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JcA0x.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JcA0x.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Congress just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2014\/03\/04\/220143\/house-votes-to-curtail-flood-insurance.html\">voted to continue subsidizing morons who choose to build in flood plains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The House of Representatives, in a bipartisan vote of 306-91 Tuesday night, agreed to limit premium rate increases under the National Flood Insurance Program.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The bill must still pass the Senate or be reconciled with a version of flood insurance legislation that the chamber approved in January.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">If the House version becomes law, with President Barack Obama\u2019s signature, the measure would eliminate some of the changes made in a 2012 law that required the Federal Emergency Management Agency to raise rates to reflect flood risk. The law was intended to reduce losses to the insurance program, which is $24 billion in debt.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Conservative, libertarian, environmental and taxpayer watchdog groups opposed the bill, arguing that rates should be based on risk. Some said subsidies should be targeted only to people who couldn\u2019t afford higher rates.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, said during the debate that he would oppose the bill because the flood insurance program was \u201cone reason America is going broke.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt forces 96 percent of Americans to subsidize the remaining 4 percent, regardless of income or need,\u201d Hensarling said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, when Jeb F%$#ing Hensarling is one of the smarter people in the room, you are at a level of stupid that buggers the mind.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if I were in Congress, I would tell Mr. Hensarling that&nbsp; the additional costs for the insurance program are a direct result of anthropogenic climate change, just to f%$# with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress just voted to continue subsidizing morons who choose to build in flood plains: The House of Representatives, in a bipartisan vote of 306-91 Tuesday night, agreed to limit premium rate increases under the National Flood Insurance Program. The bill must still pass the Senate or be reconciled with a version of flood insurance legislation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1054,1045,1020,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropogenic-climate-change","category-insurance","category-legislation","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}