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To: Carry_Okie
I'm for throwing out the baby with the bath water, when it comes to California, let Mexico have it. In ten years the corruption and lack of care for the citizens will have the residents begging the U.S. to liberate them.

I haven't been paying much attention to the fires so I can only make assumptions, maybe you correct them.

It seems to me that both private and public lands have been mismanaged and if the Californians had gotten off their lazy asses and taken care of God's creation these fires would not have been as catastrophic as they became. I don’t support the environmentalist and I believe that the States constituents have allowed them to take control out of ignorance and indifference.

I stopped buying materials from California and those that came through their ports long ago. I hate paying for their socialist policies that seem to me, only promote a lazy culture. The hell if I want America’s tax dollars used to allow them to continue those policies.

Why should we believe that if emergency funds are sent to help California recover from this catastrophe and their economic mismanagement, anything will change in the future?
38 posted on 11/01/2003 2:47:14 AM PST by Fearless Flyers (Proud to be of The Brave and the Free, http://fearless-flyers.com)
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To: Fearless Flyers
I'm for throwing out the baby with the bath water, when it comes to California, let Mexico have it.

Throw that baby out and you'll have killed your sister and you'll be next. Although California politics are clearly complicit in this disaster, it's the Federal government that is responsible for most of the species listings that prevented anyone from touching those forests.

I stopped buying materials from California and those that came through their ports long ago. I hate paying for their socialist policies that seem to me, only promote a lazy culture.

I don't believe that this is even possible, and you've NEVER seen people work as hard as they do in Silicon Valley, much less the sweatshops of LA. It may seem laid back to you, but that's only the media picture.

This is a State that passed ballot measures against same sex marriage, against affirmative action, for English only instruction, and against benefits for illegal aliens, all by wide margins. Does that sound like a bunch of liberals to you? Did your state do that?

Why should we believe that if emergency funds are sent to help California recover from this catastrophe and their economic mismanagement, anything will change in the future?

There I am with you, and I don't think Arnold will make it any better.

39 posted on 11/01/2003 6:35:26 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by politics.)
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