Posted on 09/12/2020 2:47:39 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Far Left Liberal Progressive governor of California, Gavin Newsom, got in front of the cameras yesterday and made a ‘very serious’ statement about the raging wildfires currently plaguing their state. He said “The debate is over around climate change. Just come to the state of California, observe it with your own eyes,” a grinning Newsom told reporters while touring the fire-ravaged North Complex near Oroville. “It’s not an intellectual debate, it’s not even debatable.”
Absolute rubbish, to say the least. Let’s begin a real debate, shall we?
Always makes me laugh, seeing as most Liberals are either atheist or agnostic, that they are such die-hard, true believers in thier own religion of Climate Change. And woe be to the infidel who dares to say the emperor has no clothes, or in this case, the governor of California. Let’s leave aside the Liberal hysterics of the pagan, Gaia religion of climate change and take a peek into where the money is currently spent in sanctuary city California:
It’s so much easier to blame the imaginary scapegoat of ‘global warming’ and ‘climate change’ for the wild fires in California, instead of looking to the incredible mismanagement of the California forest and park lands. California is a sanctuary state, and as such spends over $23 billion each year on the staggering costs associated with caring for illegal immigrants and their children.
According to the California Policy Center, the Golden State’s total state/county/municipal debt tops a staggering $1.3 trillion.[1] Meanwhile, as the state teeters on the brink of economic collapse, its civic and political leaders relentlessly advance laws and policies that attract and reward illegal immigration. And, all the while, they ignore the simple fact that cooperating with the federal government in its efforts to suppress illegal immigration would decrease the massive cost imposed on taxpaying citizens and legal immigrants living in California.
When you are spending that much money to care for illegal immigrants, guess what you don’t have money for? Taking care of the forest lands that require constant care, and California no longer has the money to do that. As of 2018, the number of dead and uncleared trees in California forest lands exceeded 120,000,000, and that amounts to an incredible amount of kindling to accelerate forest fires.
California’s ubiquitous pines and oaks are vulnerable to insect infestation and disease. Those giants crash to the forest floor and, unless they are removed, provide ready fodder for the next voracious fire. The die-off is catastrophic, beyond the reach of state foresters to remedy. In many communities of the central and southern Sierra Nevada mountain range, “80 percent of trees are dead,” said Ken Pimlott, former director of Cal Fire.
MEMO TO GAVIN NEWSOM: Stop spending all your money on illegal immigrants, and start taking care of the needs of your state and the American citizens that live there. Most of all, quit your pusillanimous blaming of ‘climate change’ as the cause of the wild fires, when the reality is they are caused largely by the sheer incompetence and neglect of your administration.
Why does he get no pushback on this? Gruesome Newsome is good at blaming everyone else. Seems like people will start to hate him as much as they hate DeBlasio. He’s despicable. He looks bad too. Ruining the state.
Actually, it's that he can't have an intellectual debate so he just sticks to name calling.
Also some people INSIST on living out in the boonies where there are few services. It's their choice, of course, but I DO NOT want to live in the boonies.
I want the conveniences of town/city life.
My emergency hospital is ten minutes away at night, fifteen during the day;
The police and fire departments are CLOSE enough to save me.
Gas and car help is ten minutes away.
No boonies for me, thankew!
Gruesome Newsome opens his big fat mouth AGAIN.
MIS-Manages 20 million acres......
Clinton & Bruce Babbitt created “the ROADLESS policy”.....
They shut down thousands of miles of roads in our forests. They had large, string triangular gates placed at entrances of those roads off state/county nroads.
I worked for a welding shop in Nevada City, Calif & he uilt a great many of those gates.
Babbitt also had holes dug in the roads, inside of those gates, large enough to put a school bus into. NO ONE could get into the forests with fire fighting equipment.
I remember a couple of fires where ONLY the HOTSHOTS could get in & they were being parachuted into the fire areas.
Clinton & Babbitt & others should be indicted for their policies with our forests.
Clinton & Bruce Babbitt created “the ROADLESS policy”.....
They shut down thousands of miles of roads in our forests. They had large, string triangular gates placed at entrances of those roads off state/county nroads.
I worked for a welding shop in Nevada City, Calif & he built a great many of those gates.
Babbitt also had holes dug in the roads, inside of those gates, large enough to put a school bus into. NO ONE could get into the forests with fire fighting equipment.
I remember a couple of fires where ONLY the HOTSHOTS could get in & they were being parachuted into the fire areas.
Clinton & Babbitt & others should be indicted for their policies with our forests.
The illegals who are growing huge marijuana farming operations are doing so IN those forests.
They are so vicious that many county Sheriff’s won’t go into those places.
No matter how you look at the forest problems, there are many areas where Dems & Enviros have caused this massive destruction.
Probably not all of it, but if you clear crucial areas, especially approaches to developed areas, it would probably help. Regulations and laws prohibiting simple clearing of accumulated dead and dying underbrush should be reconsidered in light of recent experience. But I’m afraid authorities in the areas afflicted are driven more by political ideology than any factual arguments.
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