{"id":37907,"date":"2013-08-23T05:35:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T10:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37907"},"modified":"2013-08-20T16:35:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T21:35:41","slug":"37907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37907","title":{"rendered":"The Power Of Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama Administration has a 69-point plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/breakingnews\/ci_23891457\/task-force-coasts-should-prepare-rising-seas\">how the federal government can better respond to hurricanes <\/a>in a time of global warming. The underlying premise is the federal government should do anything. The premise is wrong, it should do nothing<\/p>\n<p>First, there is no Constitutional authority to spend money to rebuild people\u2019s houses after natural disasters. Second, there is a perfectly viable alternative way to achieve the objective of not having to endlessly rebuild coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p>If you built in a flood zone and get flooded, no federal money to rebuild. And if you do rebuilt, you must build on stilts, which is so expensive nobody will do it and without government guarantees, they couldn\u2019t get property insurance anyway. Those who can afford to build will self-insure. Attrition will solve the problem of damaged buildings and the abandoned ground eventually will revert to coastal wetland barriers, at no federal cost at all.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the right answer really is: do nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But &#8220;doing nothing&#8221;, even when it&#8217;s the right thing (not) to do, creates no government\u00a0union jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Obama Administration has a 69-point plan how the federal government can better respond to hurricanes in a time of global warming. The underlying premise is the federal government should do anything. The premise is wrong, it should do nothing First, there is no Constitutional authority to spend money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37907"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37938,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37907\/revisions\/37938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}