Posted by sws55 on May 16, 2011 at 09:05:22 from (173.29.40.52):
In Reply to: disposable farmers posted by old fashioned farmer on May 16, 2011 at 07:17:33:
My first gut reaction is "No the gevernment shouldn't do that to farmers". But when I think about it it absolutely is the best thing to do for everone including those farmers.
This is a fourty year flood! Without the dikes and levies that farm land would already be flooded by now and it would have been flooded a lot more times over the years too. The dikes and levies protect those fields from flooding too and those farmers profit from it too. Without the dikes that land may have flooded five or ten years out of the last fourty instead of just this once.
Think of it as minimizing the risk to life and minimizing property damaage. Would you rather have a flood or tornado take out your home and buildings or one of your corn fields? Likewise, it's safer and less expensive to save the towns and cities and flood a few more fields.
Many of those farmers knew the risks and already have flood insurance, plus they will probably qualify for enough state and federal repayments that they will come out ahead on the deal.
Would you rather have your tax dollars spent on replacing one years profits on some farm land or spend 100 times as much rebuilding all those homes and businesses in the towns and cities?
Opening those dikes to save the towns is definetly the right thing to do.
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