From the Article.

"Leaked memo reveals LA Mayor Karen Bass demanded her fire department cut an extra $49 million just ONE WEEK before wildfires broke out."

This was after the earlier 17 million cut.

Ok lefties defend this...

Musk already called for the reduction of the Fed budget by $2 TRILLION. How is he planning to do that? Will he target the reduction of essential services (e.g., Fed aid to local fire departments) or will he, perhaps, come to the conclusion that a tax increase is needed to maintain services such as fire, police, and other gov functions?  
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Once again: When Bass seeks to cut the budget, it is damnable. When Trump will seek to cut the budget it is laudable.  
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Maybe, JUST MAYBE, it is more complicated than that.

I don't know CA and LA and their budget issues or political issues. Usually (but not always), you want expenditures (salaries, benefits, hardware, maintenance, etc.) to roughly equal income (taxes, fees, etc.).  ON PAPER, it's pretty easy to cut costs and raise income and put in whatever numbers you want. Reality is somewhat different.  
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I don't want to go too far off topic, but "Medicare for All" or a similar health care system would save ~25% of the $5 TRILLION spent on health care that represents what is taken as profit by the private insurance companies. That $1 trillion in savings could then be spent on improving and expanding health care or be directed to other things like infrastructure, FIRE DEPARTMENTS, and so on. Or, it could be used to reduce taxes by $1 Trillion.  
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Back onto the topic of fire prevention and emergency services: Construction of Trump Tower in NYC began in 1979. It is currently wildly below current electrical, plumbing, fire, and other codes. If Trump tried to sell Trump Tower, the buyers would have to pay for upgrades that would cost tens or even 100s of millions of dollars. Mar-a-Lago and other Trump properties are probably also below current codes. I will predict (1) Trump will have Congress kill the Affordable Care Act (2) Trump will have Congress pass a budget item to give property owners, including himself, a windfall of Fed (citizen / taxpayer) money to upgrade their properties to the latest codes.

When you have 100 mile winds, with no rain for months in a low humidity environment with very difficult terrain, it wouldn't have mattered who was in charge or what was cut. It was a black swan event that no one could have prevented.

The topic: Mayor Bass & The LA Fires

Imp’s Reply: Elon Musk, DOGE, the Affordable Care Act, fire codes on Trump properties, tax breaks for code improvements, and resale value of Trump properties. I’m surprised he didn’t mention that the Trump Organization is in talks to repurchase the Trump Hotel in Washington DC.  

No, not too far off topic…

But Imp does accidentally bring to the fore an issue that will have a huge impact on rebuilding Los Angeles.  Their permitting and code system is Byzantine to say the least. Reform is much needed, and I’m hoping we get some commitments and actions from the Democrats in California BEFORE we start sending federal dollars in their direction.

While no one can or does blame anyone for the high winds, dry conditions lack of rain. If California had a real leader and if LA had a real leader who had management and leadership skills it would have made a difference.
Yes of course the fires would have been bad however if there was someone in charge who was competent and gave a shit about the people of CA and LA there would have been water in the hydrants more firefighters more equipment to fight the fires, the fires and damage would not have been as bad.

You dumb maga cunts might THINK that. But it's just moronic stupidity.  A black swan massive fire storm the worst in CA history - wouldn't have been as bad if, just only if, some maga CUNT was in charge. Fuck you morons get dumber by the minute.  By this (ill) logic - the Hurricanes should not have been as bad - because - ya know - filthy magamoron traitor CUNTS were in charge in dumb filthy magamoron states... Again, you dumb fucking cunts get dumber by the minute.

So, has your place burned down yet? Oh, wait. You don't live in any place that's actually in danger, do ya?

We have lots of incoming to house, feed and assist.  Because CA votes overwhelmingly Democratic - we understand filthy maga cunt criminal convicted felon trump will try to withhold aide, just like a resentful little unqualified inept CUNT would do.  We know the delusional idiocy and LIES about the hurricanes a few months ago was to TRY and paint a story that the Biden admin didn't support red filthy maga traitor cunt states - but that is simply not true.  That narrative was attempted so convicted felon criminal traitor cunt trump could have cover for withholding aide from CA and other blue states during times of crisis.  We saw it during COVID.  We saw it during the CA fires during criminal convict felon traitor trump shit show admin v.1.  Until people in his orbit told the DUMB FUCK that some people affected by that fire actually voted for the cunt and then the inept incompetent traitor allowed aide to flow in.  These are examples of the inept incompetence of convicted felon criminal traitor cunt trump.  Now let the delusional sycophantic defense of the convicted felon criminal traitor start. dumb lost bitch the filthy maga traitor cunt...

The mayor taking at least four junkets at tax payer expense when she said she would not. And overseas when the fires broke out and she doesn’t care.
Did she drop everything and come home immediately = NO

Irresponsible = yes
Negligent = yes

 
http://www.foxnews.com/media/la-mayor-karen-bass-told-ny-times-2021-she-wouldnt-travel-internationally-mayor

 
She has no courage, integrity or honor.  

 
Snowfelch reply….. a string of wild out of control curse words that make no sense

Bass came home as soon as the fires started and the disaster started to unfold.  Meanwhile FLED 'Cancun' cruz left DURING the ice storm in TX.  Just like a COWARDLY WEAK filthy little maga CUNT.  WE ALL KNOW.  

Dopey.

Her return was not immediate, but why did she go in the first place?
 Why did she travel internationally when she vowed not to do so not that long ago?
She has done so four times since making that vow.

 
As for Cruz going to Cancun it is not a good look, but in that situation there is little if anything a Senator can do. But if you are so worried about Senators, what are Padilia and Schiff doing for California and LA. Though in the country they are not doing a thing for the wildfire problem. They are however making total assholes of themselves at the hearings.  

 
Reply will be an irrational unintelligible string of curse words……..

 
January 20, 2025

Black Swans left in LA were already eaten by homeless illegals BEFORE the fire.  

 
You ignore that fact that a century ago when there was no forest management in place to control the amount of debt vegetation in California of the kind that fuel wildfires and an average of 4,000,000 acres burned annually.  By 40 years ago, through the efforts of Republicans in Sacramento, that number was down to 250,000 acres annually.  During the last 40 years, as California transitioned to one-party rule by the Democrats, the annual acreage that is burning has increased to the point that we are now back to 4,000,000 acres a year, coincidentally the same amount burned a century ago when politicians were doing NOTHING about the dried brush accumulating across state.  We already know from a century ago what happens when they do NOTHING.  You would think the Democrats would have reasonably foreseen that when they do NOTHING again, that is what we will return to.  They are idiots.

SOURCE? LINK? You make up and post a lot of phony information (by your own admission, in order to trigger readers or to yank their chain). Provide a link to a reliable source!  
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Approaches to forest management have evolved and changed over the decades. At one time and place, suppressing fires was thought to be best practice. At another time and place, there were even controlled burns to remove some cover and make way for the regrowth of grasses, then trees, then more trees, (animal habitats), etc..  
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AS HAS BEEN POINTED OUT SEVERAL TIMES IN RECENT DAYS, the majority of CA forest is owned and managed by the Federal gov. The next largest percentage of forest is privately owned (I presume by the paper, pulp, and lumber industries). Something like 3% of the CA forests are subject to management and control by the STATE gov.  
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Are you sure that was State Reps in Sacramento who managed the forests or was it the Feds who brought the burnt acreage number down? How did they do it?  

What has changed in 40 years? Perhaps more high voltage electric lines are run through the forests? Perhaps more people have access to the forests for recreation, camping, setting fires accidentally or deliberately ...? Greater access to easy fire-starting tech? (OLD Boy Scouts learned how to start a campfire with a flint rod. Today, any moron can buy a can of gasoline and a butane torch at a mini-mart ... or a flame thrower from Elon Musk.)