Trump Threatens to Cut Off FEMA Aid to California

Timothy Birdnow

President Donald Trump is threatening to cut off FEMA funds to California. The Beholden State wants the U.S. taxpayer to keep bailing them out for the wildfires that have ravaged so much of California - fires that are a direct result of gross negligence, mismanagement, and idiotic environmentalist policies implemented in the People's Republic.

According to Ronald Stein at CFACT:

As California continues to throw good money after bad and baste in the fires of its own Gehenna, the White House has threatened to cut off emergency aid (FEMA) to residents displaced by the recent forest fires.

The state’s mismanagement of past funds has put it in the situation it is in today. Rather than patch the hole in the sinking ship the state would rather bring in a larger sump pump to evacuate the water. The water in this case is actually its fire maintenance budget and the sump pump represents more FEMA funding.

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Back in 2012 utility companies lost the authority to manage the greenery within their right-of-way due to Obama-era legislation that changed the management of 193million acres of national forests and grasslands. Those regulations established a new blueprint to guide everything from logging to recreation and renewable energy development.

The guidelines apply to all 155 national forests, 20 grasslands and one prairie and represent the first major overhaul of forest rules in 30 years. It seemed like a good idea at the time in spite of the loud opposition voices warning against the new regulations.

Residents escaping the high costs of living in urban areas have created a problem for California’s forestry maintenance guidelines. As they move closer to forested areas animals are seeing their habitats disturbed. Utility services are expected to be brought to them no matter where they live.

This expansion into once forested areas is causing headaches for utility providers. They want more customers but don’t appreciate the burden minimal forest maintenance has placed on their ability to safeguard their equipment and the public who use it. It has caused them to petition CPUC and receive the authority to shut down services where it deems those services create a public hazard.

Today, electric utility companies up and down the state have all implemented Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events, aka rolling blackouts, as a last line of defense against electric service disruption and possible massive wildfires to vulnerable communities caused by utility equipment.

Trump is right; there is no reason the rest of the country should be forced to subsidize California's experiments in returning the land to a state of nature. If they want to do that fine, but they then should man up (a laughable proposition in the land of transgenderism and the gay lifestyle) and fix their own problems. They won't.

Liberalism only works when there are other people there to bail them out. Much like teenagers who live at home and think life isn't that tough, the liberal has grand ideas that won't work but sound so pleasing to them. They manage to implement them because everyone assumes the adults will come and fix it when it fails.

Looks like Daddy is about to cut off the allowance.

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