03/24/2009
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"In New York, we are building all kinds of dunes to protect our coastal areas, heavily populated, like never before."
"We do not have an affordability study, and yet we are making people pay unaffordable rates."
"Flood insurance--these pilot programs are great, but if you are a homeowner and they are asking you for 9,000 bucks and you cannot afford it, saying 3 years from now there may be some pilot program th..."
"Shame on us if we take more than $10 billion in national taxpayer dollars and then do as you said--spread the dollars here, there and everywhere and then have to come back to the taxpayers to rebuild ..."