Posted on 01/10/2025 6:43:57 AM PST by bill andersen
The devastating wildfires around Los Angeles have caused billions of dollars of damage and left thousands of people destitute and homeless. It is fitting and proper that congress and President Trump quickly enact legislation to help them. It will be very expensive with estimates ranging up to 200 billion dollars.
But the money has to come from somewhere. And there are a multitude of places to get it. And naturally congress will attach strings. Here is a starting list of the strings. It is by no means complete:
The senate will immediately approve all of President Trump’s cabinet nominations.
The Department of Education is immediately terminated.
All labor contracts and unions for federal employees are immediately terminated.
All restrictions to drilling on federal lands are immediately terminated.
All offshore restrictions to drilling are immediately terminated.
The Keystone Pipeline will continue unabated and be completed.
All 87,000 new irs agents are immediately terminated.
All hurricane and flood victims in the Southeast get the same aid and get it before the California fire victims get theirs.
FEMA, under the Trump Administration will solely handle the aid to there fire victims. No California state agencies will be involved.
Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio is immediately terminated and their broadcasting licenses are immediately revoked.
Give them the same thing the people of North Carolina got.
Jack 💩 and false hopes
$175.00 per person should do it.
Sounds perfect.
It does seem like this can be used for leverage. We need to play hardball all the way.
Cut off all funding for abortion, transgenderism, pride celebrations and promotions, etc.
“Never let a crisis go to waste”, Trump style. I like it
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Absolutely right!
HA HA
that didn’t take long. California can’t print US dollars into existence, or monetize debt via the Federal Reserve
But Fed.gov can!
Just another way our printed, fiat money system supports all leftists, their grift, their propaganda, and their social engineering.
Sounds good to me!
“Expecting the rest of us to pay for the consequences of California’s idiotic election decisions...”
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Those idiotic decisions will not change. In fact, the wealthy LA liberal elites will be writing campaign donation checks to their Democrat candidates in less than two years.
Californians voted their way into this crisis. Let them tax their way out of it.
I think $750 is the going rate nowadays..
Not one cent should be given o California’s governments until they quit wasting money and start addressing the forests, the water supply and the government rot. The only aid that the feds should give is directly to individual victims. Not one $@&% dime for the State of California, only to Californian citizens.
I’d prefer to see the Helena victims finally get genuine help first, then we’ll talk. If additional money is an issue, cut NATO funding, pare back UN involvement to the bare minimum, and reduce the state department to a skeleton crew that can’t dispense one thin dime without an accounting colonoscopy.
Not without some pre-conditions - give the federal government complete control over California’s forest management and water management, since California government has proven completely incapable of both tasks.
Expecting the rest of us to pay for the consequences of California’s idiotic election decisions without these pre-conditions should be a non-starter
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Bingo! This is a must. I’d also add in election process reforms/voter id requirements before a single penny is sent to California
Get in line behind Maui and Western North Carolina.
Can you imagine if a major earthquake hit Southern Cal right now? Or a tsunami?
Malibu. What’s funny is the burned down houses on the beach. A whole ocean and no pumps.
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