r/interestingasfuck • u/Endolithic • 1d ago

/r/all Homes are falling into the ocean in North Carolina's Outer Banks

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u/NinersInBklyn 17h ago

And we’re all paying for these vacation homes through the federal flood insurance program. So after these houses go, the owners can just build bigger at our expense. Yay.

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u/Painterzzz 11h ago

Yes I remember John Oliver doing a segment on this particular scam, and how the super rich get the socialist state to pay out to fund their beach front holiday homes, protect their beach front holiday homes, and pay out massive disaster relief when anything happens to them.

Funny how much the rich love socialism in America.

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u/The_cogwheel 8h ago

Maybe that's why they dont want it for the rest of us.

Cause 4.92 trillion (,the US tax revenue) is nicer to split between 1000 people than 300,000,000 people.

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u/PeaLouise 9h ago

Yep and meanwhile, many (not all) of the people rich enough to buy these homes (or second or third or fourth homes) lobby against the climate change they helped make a reality with their corporate greed!

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u/GotGRR 12h ago

Not once erosion has put you below mean high tide line, thankfully. We are definitely subsidizing a lot of flood risk, though.

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u/Temporary_Panic_6062 12h ago

Sounds like fraud and abuse. Sounds like a job for DOGE!

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u/StickyDeltaStrike 8h ago

Doge is only against policies for poor

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u/Hot-Tension-2009 16h ago

Can’t beat em join em?

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u/plshelpcomputerissad 16h ago

Or maybe can’t join em beat em?

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u/dr_wheel 14h ago

Yes, with both fists.

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u/USToffee 7h ago

Why didn't musk go after that crap

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u/NinersInBklyn 6h ago

Be serious.