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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 1957298, member: 38849&quot;]Those exceedingly poverty-stricken people did not have any gold or silver, and the area affected was far less than 1% of the continental United States.&nbsp; Moreover, they were told to evacuate and decided not to.&nbsp; Some evacuation vehicles arrived in Arkansas and Texas with only 4 or 5 persons on board.&nbsp; In addition, New Orleans&#039; advance planning was absolutely worthless, and the Corps of Engineers&#039; levee program was criminally negligent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone who lives below sea level, in a hurricane-prone enclave, should have their head examined anyway.&nbsp; Now a couple billion of your tax money has been spent to shore things up, so we can go through yet another disaster down the line.</p><p><br /></p><p>And besides, my point was that even a regional weather problem (Sandy), much less a global economic collapse, can cause massive hardship and economic loss to households.&nbsp; Consider the big picture, when the problems are systemic, and global, rather than local; the unprepared middle class will get whacked again.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have to ask what State you live in; it is a state of denial.&nbsp; Good luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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