V4Vendetta
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Of Course the government could use the signal from the radio to find you. That may be good or it may be terrible if we are in a "1984" scenario.
Don't neglect your communications gear guys, a ham radio licence and a good rig can be a lifesaver. you can only fight off just so many before you really do need to call in the calvery.
If the government screws up and all else fails, we'll all pull together wherever necessary and fix it ourselves, because this is America, and that's what we do here.
In the past 25 years, the tiny community of Dauphin Island, Ala., has been hit by at least six hurricanes. Residents there carry insurance backed by the federal government, and they've collected more than $21 million in taxpayer money over the years to repair their damaged homes. Not bad, considering their premiums rarely go up and they are seldom denied coverage--even after Katrina almost completely demolished the barrier island at the entrance to Mobile Bay.
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), administered by FEMA, was started in 1968 for homeowners who live in flood-prone areas considered too great a risk by private insurers. And for more than 30 years, the program was self-supporting. But studies by Conrad's NWF team revealed a disturbing fact: Just 1 to 2 percent of claims were from "repetitive-loss properties"--those suffering damage at least twice in a 10-year period. Yet, those 112,000 properties generated a remarkable 40 percent of the losses--$5.6 billion. One homeowner in Houston filed 16 claims in 18 years, receiving payments totaling $806,000 for a building valued at $114,000.
In theory, NFIP will repay this money from its premium income, but these loans are so large that the program probably will not even be able to afford interest charges unless its premium income is greatly increased. Realistically, the only way to get these loans off of NFIP’s books will be for Congress eventually to forgive them