Discussing Hurricane Helene. Part 2

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There's a famous story about Davy Crockett. He was campaigning on one of his terms and he asked a farmer if he'd vote for him. And the farmer said, no, because you gave us this money for this disaster. And he was like, well, I gave you money. I was trying to help.

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And of course, farmer was like, no, it wasn't your responsibility to do that. I'm paraphrasing that story, obviously. But the point is, you know, it might not just be a pull-yourselves-up-by-your-bootstrap thing. It might be that the reason they were so opposed to government help is because it could be weaponized.

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And that's why they wanted to emphasize private, you know, private charity or philanthropy. Just food for thought, because we're definitely seeing it being weaponized right now.