“As the sands of the hourglass, so are the”…dollars out of our wallets?

The soap opera that begins with these famous words started airing on ABC in the mid 1960’s – about the same time that the federal government began helping NC beach residents replace sand lost to Mother Nature and Father Time.

And with the melodrama worthy of a soap opera, Carolina Beach residents are complaining about a federal government funding withdrawal for beach renourishment projects. They are now contemplating a lawsuit to force the feds to continue paying for replacing sand on their beach to keep their – yes, their, not your, not my – property protected.

Where does the federal government get its money?

So what they are really saying is that they want the rest of us to continue subsidizing their ocean front property (on top of the massive flood insurance subsidies we already provide through FEMA).

I need some Bon Bons.