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"Infinite" spending is not necessary. This country has enough money to build some storm shelters for Pete's sake. It's just a hole in the ground that needs to be suitable enough for less than an hour of shelter.
Too bad Obama didn't think about this when he was pushing his shovel ready nonsense.
Since the op has failed to post any hint of a proposed federal regulation and I can find nothing regarding the same, so I think we can move on to another area relevant to this issue which is...
One would think that in tornado prone areas like Oklahoma state officials would have long ago recognized the necessity of mandating tornado shelters at the very least for all public buildings and especially schools, the Wizard of Oz in 1939 having driven the point home in even this resident of a relatively tornado free area. But apparently they missed that point of the movie.
I bring this up because of the 57 dead, 20 were children attending a publicly built elementary school. So with that in mind, I find it more than bit ironic, as I find most threads on C-D, that that the usual cast of small government taxes as theft crowd who so vocally supported the NRA's proposal for taxpayers to pay for armed guards in the nations schools are so reticent to pay for shelters at state built elementary schools.
I have already stated if you want it pay for it. The folks in the state of Oklahoma feel the necessity to pay for shelters in the school then do it. Why is that so hard to grasp? This is not a federal issue like most but the fed's always stick their fat heads into it with well to do senators wanting to get face time spending others money on issues they should have no say in.
I've never understood why schools in Tornado Alley don't have have some kind of underground shelter.
Did you ever even consider the possibility that engineers and architects have already considered this and that when they showed how much it would cost, the LOCAL people balked at paying for it? There is a very good reason many parts of Oklahoma and Texas have no basements. So why don't you enlighten them on how to remedy the situation without adding DRASTIC cost increases which the locals find cost prohibitive.
Bridges and roads CAN be built to last 100 or more years. You, and everyone else just don't want to pay for it. Buildings CAN be built to withstand an F5 tornado. You, and everyone else just don't want to pay for it. Huge holes CAN be dug, then a combination of dirt, aggregate, flyash and or cement CAN be shipped in and basements CAN be built. You, and everyone else just don't want to pay for it. Electric transmission and distribution lines CAN be run underground. You, and everyone else just don't want to pay for it.
The phrase cost prohibitive doesn't mean ANYTHING to someone spending another person's money. But as soon as YOU are required to pay for it yourself, YOU just don't want to pay for it.
So why don't you enlighten them on how to remedy the situation without adding DRASTIC cost increases which the locals find cost prohibitive.
Drastic? Hell it wasn't drastic back in the say of Auntie Em, of course that was back in the day when Real Americansâ„¢ that we read so much about learned to prefer vaulted ceilings to root cellors.
Cost prohibitive? Two - four grand on the cost of a home... puleeze
By the way, 20 kids didn't get to decide if they wanted a tornado shelter in their school that's why we have nannies, to step in when parents forget or don't know how to be parents.
What about all those nuclear underground bunkers? Don't we have like a bunch of those leftover from the Communist paranoia?
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