Anyway, the Times has published this propaganda piece for Chancellor Obama...err, President Obama:
In January, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced grants totaling $1 billion in 13 states to help communities adapt to climate change, by building stronger levees, dams and drainage systems.
One of those grants, $48 million for Isle de Jean Charles, is something new: the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the impacts of climate change. The divisions the effort has exposed and the logistical and moral dilemmas it has presented point up in microcosm the massive problems the world could face in the coming decades as it confronts a new category of displaced people who have become known as climate refugees.
...Around the globe, governments are confronting the reality that as human-caused climate change warms the planet, rising sea levels, stronger storms, increased flooding, harsher droughts and dwindling freshwater supplies could drive the world’s most vulnerable people from their homes. Between 50 million and 200 million people — mainly subsistence farmers and fishermen — could be displaced by 2050 because of climate change, according to estimates by the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security and the International Organization for Migration.Anyone remember the Dust Bowl in the 1930's? Nobody received a single penny to relocate, yet "tens of thousands of families" managed to relocate without government assistance.
When I lost my job near Atlanta in 2007, thanks to the layoffs brought on by Wall Street malfeasance supported by government ineptitude, I managed to find another job in Savannah, about 4 hours drive from my home. Long story short, I picked up my family and moved to Savannah. Not one dime of government money. In fact, I had to pull money out of my retirement account to do it, and paid a 10% penalty to the government for that!
Needless to say, here is my response to anyone on Isle de Jean Charles or anywhere else that gets government-supported relocation:
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