By now, I am sure most of us have seen the stories about the wildfires raging in southern California:
Interactive 3D Map Provides Real-Time View of Palisades Wildfire and Evacuation Zones
I know I should feel for these people (and a part of me does). Many will lose their homes and some people will lose their lives. And, when it’s all over, they will be left to recover all on their own:
California Rules Caused Insurance Companies to Cancel Policies Before Wildfires
But why should I feel any sympathy for a people who keeps electing leaders who waste their money to take trips to Africa. Or worse, who take money from firefighting budgets so they can go to Africa?
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Cut Fire Budget by Nearly $20 Million
Democrat L.A. Mayor Karen Bass in Africa as Her City Burns
But don’t worry, she’s ‘on top of things.’ She is directing the fire fighting efforts from Africa, and Newsome is praising her for being able to do her job while on what amounts to a tax-payer funded vacation:
Watch: Gavin Newsom Thanks L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, Away in Africa, for Help by Phone During Fire
How about this, ‘Mayor’ Bass?
GET YOURSELF HOME AND DO YOUR JOB!
But speaking of ‘Governor’ Newsome. He, and all the Leftists like him, will blame ‘climate change’ for these fires. DO NOT ACCEPT THEIR LIES! These fires are a man-made problem. They are natural to the area (I know, I used to live in Anaheim, a few miles south of where they are burning now). The conditions that allow these fires to get so out of control are the direct result of Left-Wing policies — which Californians voted for!
Wildfires Caused By Bad Environmental Policy Are Causing California Forests To Be Net CO2 Emitters
Regarding reducing the fuel load, in an interview four months ago, Newsom said that there are “Hundreds of millions of dead trees” in the state and that it cost his father $35,000 to clear “a small little patch of dead trees” on his property.
Newsom didn’t admit it, but the outrageous cost to remove a few dead trees from private land is a consequence of California’s Byzantine environmental regulatory patchwork.
This is California’s big secret: it’s not climate change that’s burning up the forests, killing people, and destroying hundreds of homes; it’s decades of environmental mismanagement that has created a tinderbox of unharvested timber, dead trees, and thick underbrush.
And now, when the fires are finally put out, these same people who caused the problem are going to demand more money to pay for the damages. Why?
And I’m not talking about the Communists in California government. No, I’m talking about the Communists who keep electing them year after year.
No one owes anything to these people. They live in a republic and they have chosen to either elect the people who have created the conditions that lead to these massive fires, or they have willingly chosen to stay and live under the socialist rule. Either way, I see no reason others should be forced to pay for their choices. Nor do I see why I should feel sympathy for them.
YHWH help me, but I don’t. I have more sympathy for the innocents who will be forced to pay for the recovery. The nation will now have to pay for the government Californian’s chose, and that is a greater tragedy in my mind that the loss of property stemming from their own voting choices.
–B3A
ADDENDUM
Am I being ‘vile’ as the Gateway Pundit accuses this professor?
I mean, California has been repeatedly warned to stop with the Left-Wing property restrictions disguised as ‘environmental; protection’ and deal with the realities of this world. Trump warned them when he was President some four years ago, and he just listed a series of things I left out that have directly contributed to these fires:
Where is the personal responsibility in all of this? When do the people of California get told to accept the4 consequences of their choices? James Woods, more than most, could have easily moved away from California. He is a smart man of financial means, but he chose to stay where he is.
This fire is not a tragedy, it was an easily predicted inevitability. So I guess I am vile, too, because I simply do not understand why we must feel sorrow for those who have been forced to deal with the inevitable reality of the choices they have been making for decades.
Scripture says we reap what we sow. If California chose to sow irresponsibility in favor of imagined free gain from another’s labor (i.e. socialism), then why shouldn’t they be left top deal with the consequences?
In the end, the only ones I feel ‘sorry for’ are those who have no choice but to stay, and even then, how did they vote???