On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:54:06 -0000, Rod Speed wrote:

Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote
Brian Reay wrote
Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote

I see floods all over the news.

I told you it was a soggy little island.

Yes, and especially so just now, rain almost every
day for 2 months. The tail end of three hurricanes.
I guess somewhere like America is getting blown to bits.

Why should sensible people like me who didn't buy a house
in a flood plain have to foot the bill for those that did?

Because that's the way it works.

That doesn't answer "why".

The government is paying millions to "victims" of flood.

They pay millions to those like you who were too stupid
to work out what qualifications would get you a job too.

Not getting a job is the government's fault,

Rubbish.

Divide the work by the people available,

Not even possible when fool like you turn their nose
up at the sort of work available in the sort of place
you choose to 'live' and are actually stupid enough
to demand that the govt provide a job that a degree
in physics or digital microelectronics is useful for, in
a place where no employer with even half a clue to
choose to base an operation that needs people
with those qualifications.

I've never refused a job.

And its only a communist govt that is actually stupid
enough to even try to do anything like that, And we
have seen how well they do compared with govts
that aren't that stupid.

Changing the working hours from 40 to 38 is no big deal.

it's what you'd do if you were on say a large
expedition and needed tents/latrines/etc built.

But doesn't work for entire countrys/economys.

Whyever not? Same principle.

buying a house in the wrong place is entirely your own fault.

Huge areas have been flooded in recent years, not just the odd place.

Such floods do happen from time to time, eg in the 50s when
part of the east coast was flooded and a number of people
died. This eventually led to the building of the Thames barrier.

It's not rocket surgery to pick a place that's impossible to flood.

Yes, but there is a tad of a shortage of those.

You don't just buy something because it's never flooded
before, you look at the surrounding land and water and
think, "Could that end up on my house?"

Pity that there is a tad of a shortage of that sort of place.

Anyway, have they never heard of house insurance?

You have previously proclaimed that it's a complete waste of money.

If you've been flooded before, flood insurance
is very expensive, assuming it is even available.

If you're in a house which has flooded before, you're a prize idiot.

Depends on whether there has been extensive
antiflood systems put in place since then.

Intelligent people learn from their mistakes.

You didn't with what you were silly enough to get qualified in.



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