AMERICAN THINKER: President Trump’s threat to halt California supplemental disaster funding for wildfire and floods unless “they get their act together” could cost the state $10 billion.
Floods from a cyclical wet weather year could be more financially devastating to California than the $27 billion in losses from two years of record-sized wildfires that burned three million acres.
California continually slashed necessary infrastructure spending over the last decade in order to achieve constitutionally mandated balanced budgets. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) awarded California the booby prize for the worst state in the nation for its $65-billion infrastructure deficit involving dams, waterways, flood control, roads, bridges, seaports, and tunnels.
When natural disasters hit, federal law requires that cities and counties act as the first two layers of disaster response. If the event overwhelms local resources and a governor declares state of emergency, an appeal can be made to the president for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist as the third level of responder in dealing with disaster damage. The California insurance commissioner revealed a record $14 billion of California wildfire insurance losses were recorded in 2017, and catastrophe-modeler Risk Management Solutions estimates 2018 wildfire insurance losses of at least another $13 billion.
FEMA has already made California disaster relief allocations of over $1 billion in 2017 and about $1.5 billion in 2018 to pay for rebuilding streets, public infrastructure, private homes, rental housing, and cleanup costs. But Gov. Brown made a request to the Trump administration for another $9 billion in supplemental relief to pay for November’s Camp Fire and Southern California wildfires. MORE
Cali is asking all of us who don’t live there to pay for their progressive agenda. Go pound sand.
California wounds are self-inflicted.
Boo-fucking-hoo
If they’ve got money to give wetbacks free health care, they don’t need the disaster money.
California governments have cash coming out their ears. The problem is they give it to illegal aliens. From 2 years ago:
Illegal Immigration Costs California $30.3 Billion A Year—17.7 Percent Of State Budget
Trump should listen to them bitch then offer them a dollar toward relief.
They can’t figure out how to keep human feces off the streets. Give them nothing.
Trump has the carrot, use the stick until funding for the wall is passed and signed.
Rots-A-Ruck Commies!
Without other people’s money, yer in a heap of trouble!
Gavin is proposing a budget with higher spending, yet still with a $21 billion surplus. How do he do that voodoo that he do?
^^^Lies^^^
“They can’t figure out how to keep human feces off the streets. Give them nothing.”
…SCREW the street, @grool, they can’t figure out how to keep the human feces out of GOVERNMENT!!!
…this is nothing…wait until they get that state tax bill, including MexiCare, and find out that the President is SERIOUS that he’s not gonna give them a refund for the huge Cali tax bill like the progressives before him. THEN, you’re gonna see some shit, mostly leaking out of their ears just before their heads explode…
Take the $10 billion from California….
and build the damn wall….!!!
Make “Snake” proud and wall off California while you’re at it…
Make it…..”Escape from California”.
Hey Newsom, show a fluorescent bulb up your ass then just have a seat.
If California’s vaunted inland Super Duper “Red” counties would stop hiring illegal hard labor it would stop being dominated by the politics of its commie coast.
ANY State in the union with a single “sanctuary city” or policy should be denied federal disaster funding. I include my Texas (Austin SPIT!) in that.
Cut it off at $5 billion dollars, and… SAAAAAYYYYYYYY… we’ve got ENOUGH left over to build a WALL! How ‘BOUT that?!?! 😆