If you're young and healthy, this can work well. If you're not young and healthy, it can be a disaster, and you can end up much worse off than you currently are.

There is this double standard. The losses are larger in other areas of the tax code, but somehow a different standard gets applied to this.

In a nutshell, this budget clearly digs the hole deeper.

We do a lot of emergency preparedness work for families and communities on how to prepare for disaster. Our plan is mirrored after the national plan from the Bureau of Homeland Security.

We need to have social scientists working with disaster planners so that evacuation plans are realistic and actually work in the short time frame we may have available.

We placed 32 trucks in disaster areas that people like your group sent us, ... This outpouring has been tremendous.