Thursday, August 04, 2005
My Letter to FEMA
I sent this to the Sentinel today...let's see if they put it to print.
Dear FEMA,
I am writing to formally request that you eliminate any plans to send funds to the residents of Florida after this year’s imminent hurricane season. Please consider this a request for all future years as well. I would like to purchase a home here in central Florida and I am unable to purchase one that is to my liking. I am a teacher, and although my salary is quite generous (despite what most of us would have the public believe) it is still not enough to afford the home that is to my liking. One of the main reasons that the prices of these homes are so high is because you insist on using tax-payer money to subsidize the risk of living in Florida. Basically, you make living through hurricanes easy for us by using other people’s money. My parents who live up in Pennsylvania subsidized my housing for the first 22 years of my like; I really don’t think that it’s fair to make them continue this subsidy through their federal taxes. You see, if we Floridians were forced to bear the full burden of our choice to live in a hurricane ravished part of the country then fewer of us would stay. If fewer of us would stay (and even fewer would want to move here) then, of course, the demand for housing would decrease and so would the price. Please help me to live out the American dream and purchase a home of my own.
Thank you,
Adam Gifford
Economics Instructor
Lake-Sumter Community College
Dear FEMA,
I am writing to formally request that you eliminate any plans to send funds to the residents of Florida after this year’s imminent hurricane season. Please consider this a request for all future years as well. I would like to purchase a home here in central Florida and I am unable to purchase one that is to my liking. I am a teacher, and although my salary is quite generous (despite what most of us would have the public believe) it is still not enough to afford the home that is to my liking. One of the main reasons that the prices of these homes are so high is because you insist on using tax-payer money to subsidize the risk of living in Florida. Basically, you make living through hurricanes easy for us by using other people’s money. My parents who live up in Pennsylvania subsidized my housing for the first 22 years of my like; I really don’t think that it’s fair to make them continue this subsidy through their federal taxes. You see, if we Floridians were forced to bear the full burden of our choice to live in a hurricane ravished part of the country then fewer of us would stay. If fewer of us would stay (and even fewer would want to move here) then, of course, the demand for housing would decrease and so would the price. Please help me to live out the American dream and purchase a home of my own.
Thank you,
Adam Gifford
Economics Instructor
Lake-Sumter Community College
# posted by The Professor @ 1:33 PM 
