Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Trump’s spending freeze halts key California wildfire work: ‘We can’t even buy the rakes’
SF Chronicle ^ | 2/14/2025 | Julie Johnson

Posted on 02/15/2025 1:21:17 PM PST by cuz1961

‘We can’t even buy the rakes’...

...Other fire prevention work will continue if it was funded by other sources, such as the agency’s annual budget. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bs; california; doge; thestatecanbuyrakes; thestatecanpay
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 next last
what did you do with the rakes and tools we ALREADY bought you ?!!!

Spit.

grifters.

1 posted on 02/15/2025 1:21:17 PM PST by cuz1961
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

Gosh. Is the state of California doing anything? I mean ... other than blaming Trump?


2 posted on 02/15/2025 1:22:50 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

Yawn. WHo believes this?


3 posted on 02/15/2025 1:23:57 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (DOGE is no longer just a noun. DOGE is a verb.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

There seems to be lots of money for many other things in California. Perhaps a shift in priorities is needed.


4 posted on 02/15/2025 1:24:11 PM PST by xp38
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

Hey biggest state in the union. Open your wallets and buy your own stupid rakes.


5 posted on 02/15/2025 1:24:17 PM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

hmmm....didn’t they just allocate $50 million to fight President Trump?? That $50 mill would buy a hell of a lot of rakes...


6 posted on 02/15/2025 1:24:25 PM PST by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

No but hundreds of millions for people that aren’t even supposed to be here.

Let it burn


7 posted on 02/15/2025 1:24:25 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

Use that 50 million you saved to battle Trump.


8 posted on 02/15/2025 1:24:35 PM PST by conservativepoet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

Zacky.

“Ugh. Can’t buy rakes.”

Take some of that fat money you made doing nothing and go. Effing. Get. Some!


9 posted on 02/15/2025 1:24:41 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

Open Go-Fund me account.


10 posted on 02/15/2025 1:25:06 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy

How about asking the Ukraine, you sent equipment to them before the fires


11 posted on 02/15/2025 1:25:32 PM PST by ronnie raygun
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

Rakes on Amazon are $19.99

Skip your trip to Starbucks for 2-3 days and buy the damn thing yourself.

I swear - these news sources must be in direct competition with The Bee.


12 posted on 02/15/2025 1:25:38 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy

California has among the highest taxes AND DEBT in the country and they want the rest us to pay for their damn rakes? Buy your own California...


13 posted on 02/15/2025 1:26:23 PM PST by GOPJ (Democrats are the party of angry black women, sexual weirdos and white liberal elites. It's a fail.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy

Where I used to work we called this “malicious compliance”

“We’d love to do that but we can’t because” enter stupid excuse here ___________

Let it burn


14 posted on 02/15/2025 1:26:54 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

“what did you do with the rakes and tools we ALREADY bought you ?!!!”

Ditto! I’m glad you pointed that out. It’s just like Florida or the east coast. Every time there is a hurricane they have to go out and buy plywood to board up their windows or buy bags to make sandbags. What the hell do you do with the plywood and bags since the hurricanes come numerous times a year?

And yes, doesn’t everybody already own a frigging rake?


15 posted on 02/15/2025 1:27:43 PM PST by caver ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

Rakes? No money for it.

Illegals’ votes? Lots of money for it!


16 posted on 02/15/2025 1:28:29 PM PST by WKTimpco
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

Take some of the money you are giving to illegal aliens.


17 posted on 02/15/2025 1:28:35 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (It is long past time to dump the entire Treasury drawer and throw away the crap.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

I thought there was a big movement for California to secede because it didn’t need the US?


18 posted on 02/15/2025 1:30:42 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

A shovel and a rake. In the trunk of Sheriff’s Taylor’s car . - Barney Fife.


19 posted on 02/15/2025 1:30:58 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: xp38
Are you talking about their many billions of dollars maglev train to nowhere?

Or their 7 million dollar outdoor public toilets?

Or the billions they spend on importing illegals and young children to sell?

Or the check at the French Laundry? The least the rest of us can do is chip into pay for their rakes...right?

20 posted on 02/15/2025 1:31:21 PM PST by GOPJ (Democrats are the party of angry black women, sexual weirdos and white liberal elites. It's a fail.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson