FEMA WARNING!

No, FEMA did not issue a warning. I'm warning taxpayers about FEMA.

Mike Brown ran FEMA into the gutter. Yeah, you would think that would be the gutters in New Orleans. But, no, I'm talking about how FEMA has been put in charge of deciding to remove wetlands from federal protection.

The Clean Water Act of 1972 as modified in 1977 protected wetlands and gave the Army Corps of Engineer power to define and delineate wetlands for protection.

Not any more. Since the Homeland Security Act, FEMA has been running that show. FEMA can issue a letter at whim making wetlands disappear. POOF!

All it takes is a letter and not only are wetlands gone but floodplains, too.

Not what does that mean to the taxpayers?

IF a hurricane hits and floods an area, with several inches of rain, homeowners will be begging the Federal government to rebuild their flooded home. Yes, like in New Orleans where the federal and state governments are spending BILLIONS to repair private homes and businesses.

But New Orleans is just one area. Georgia has 1 out of every 10 acres of wetlands in the United States. And, huge coastal floodplains as well as huge flooding in the mountains and the city of Atlanta just to name three areas.

What is happening and has been happening, in parts of Georgia, developers are having entire subdivisions removed from the 100 year floodplain with just a letter. No investigations. Plats are being filed in court houses that don't show existing wetlands or existing floodplains.

People, innocent people, buy the houses built in the real world floodplain with a 1 in 4 chance their properties will be damaged by a flood. But, because FEMA filed a little old piece of paper, the builders did not disclose the flood history of the property. And, property buyers were not FORCED to buy flood insurance.

No private insurance coverage means the federal government will be doing more than it's share of water removal and repair.

If the severe drought gets hit hard by a hurricane.

Think about the GOP policy of being pro-development at any costs to the taxpayer and consumer.

FEMA is eliminating history. A history home buyers have a right to access in public records. Records that builders don't want the buyer to see. After all, who would knowingly buy a home in a floodplain? A rational buyer would not.

Look for a huge liability for state, local, and federal taxpayers in the upcoming hurricane season.

Thanks to Mike Brown, FEMA, Homeland Security, the GOP, and the special interest called developers.