Another 300 million Sandy victims

News item: Emergency funding for Hurricane Sandy plus billions more in unrelated spending cleared its final hurdle Monday after the Senate narrowly voted to approve the massive $50 billion measure. --

The way the math works, my family covered over 800 dollars of this mess. That is on top of the previous 180 billion ($3000 per family) already spent. What did we do to deserve this? We have chosen not to live in hurricane prone areas, or to build our homes and schools on sandy beaches. Still we were assessed $600 and now $166 each to subsidize those who do.

I think it is important for people to be accountable. And they can do so easily, by self-insuring. There are thousands of insurance companies developed to assess this kind of risk, and to charge us more if we build on a beach. But no, that's not enough. We have to rush in with government buckets of dollars and send another 50 billion to rebuild the roller coasters on the east coast.

Hey, what about us? We're now victims of Sandy too. We'd like to claim our $3800 back. Sooner or later, the government is going to have to start justifying these unconstitutional transfers of public money. There should be a website generated, that shows any funding bill  in per capita form. Some examples (based on 300 million verifiable citizens)

Annual Federal spending:
Defense:   About $2467 per capita (probably worth it).
Departments and Agencies: About $2200 per capita (probably not worth it)
Interest Expense: About $1500 per capita (I thought I paid that credit card off)

Total debt: 16.4 trillion : $54,667 per capita.

Would you agree to send over 800 dollars of your money to the east coast? Well, you might, but you would also expect that they will be more careful with the money, and it would not include rebuilding casinos.  As it is, few of us away from New Jersey realize that we were also victims of Sandy.