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The nerve that some asshole thinks they are entitled to hundreds of thousands to millions of taxpayer money to protect their wealthy property while the average american can barely afford a run down home or rent.
They already made it clear they're not interested in spending their own money. That nearly $600k sounds like a lot, but when you look into it, that cost was spread between numerous homes on the beach there. I was purusing the Beach Associations Facebook page trying to find details, and failed, but looking at the coastline and the number of houses on it, I'd wager it was meant to protect at least twenty homes, if not plenty more. These are multi-million dollar homes, and if it was only 20 homes involved, that's about $30k each, which suddenly feels much more affordable to rich fucking twats.
So a group of rich twats bundled together to barely scrape together just over half a million, because all of them are too fucking cheap to pay what it would actually cost to solve this problem, and further, don't think it's actually a problem except to them and their homes.
What a bunch of cheap idiot fucking tools. Rich people are always so fucking cheap.
The problem is that the way to actually solve this problem is to move. Building a seawall would be environmentally harmful and would only delay the damage by years or decades.
He should just sell his house
When his house falls into the ocean he’ll have exactly what he deserves.
The Tom Saab mentioned in the article, unsurprisingly, owns a lot of rental properties on that beach. So it's asking the government to protect his risky investment.
Nope, that real estate is clearly worthless.
People just can't admit they made a bad investment and want a government bailout.