Rush Limbaugh - 22 Sep 2008 - Morning Update
Help!
by Rush Limbaugh
Alright, folks; buckle up, here. A little-known Texas law is posing a threat to hundreds of people who own beachfront properties in Galveston. Thanks to Hurricane Ike’s beach erosion, these Texans now find their homes sitting closer to the water’s edge. Under the 1959 Texas Open Beaches Act, many of the homes Ike spared could be condemned by the state of Texas because they suddenly rest between the “average high-tide line, and the average low-tide line”, which is considered public property.
But there’s more. The state can seize these homes without offering any compensation to homeowners. And some of these beachfront homes — as you can imagine — are worth a few bucks! (Obama could afford a couple of them.) Complicating matters further, a state official says that the state will study the shorelines for at least a year before any decision is made. So homeowners will not know if they can make repairs on their homes, or live in them, or face seizure.
Now, if all of this weren’t bad enough, listen to what former Texas State senator A.R. “Babe” Schwartz, who wrote this law back in 1959, just told the Drive-Bys: “We’re talking about damn fools that have built houses on the edge of the sea for as long as man could remember and against every advice anyone has given.”
You know, folks, it’s one thing to be smacked by a natural disaster; it’s quite another to have to be smacked around by the government that you’re looking to for help. Some of you Gulf residents are finding that out the hard way, and wait ’til your officials discover that turtles lay eggs on your beach! Ha, ha! See what happens to you, then!
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Comment by Thomas Schwartz on 22 September 2008:
Its the law Rush. When you build a home on the beach front, you sign more than one warning from the state that your front yard could become public domain. You roll the dice and take your chances.
Comment by Kate on 28 September 2008:
Many years ago, I sat and read every word of my mortgage and home-purchase agreements, even though I was discouraged from doing this by everyone involved. Anyone buying a beach-front property should understand that beaches constantly change. It’s like agreeing to an ARM and then being surprised when interest rates went up. What were you thinking? Take a little responsibility, folks.
Comment by John on 10 October 2008:
Rush Limpbrain:
“You pay’s your money and you take your chances”. If your are so stupid as to build your house in an obviously precarious place the take your lumps; nobody made you build there.
And why should the government help at all? I don’t pay taxes to have someone decide to give my money to those so stupid; those who had the resources to make many alternative decisons.
The rightwankers like you only seem to eschew socialism when it benefits the least able; but its ok otherwise. Get back on your drugs, you’ll feel better.