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Not surprising coming from the insane FrontPage Ragazine, nothing in the OP is true.How “green policies” are burning the Golden State to a crisp.
As huge wildfires continued to devour forests, homes, and businesses across California over the weekend, President Trump lashed out at the destructive, deadly policies long pushed by environmentalists that set the stage for the Golden State’s now-routine fiery catastrophes.
“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,” President Trump tweeted Nov. 10 at 3:08 a.m. “Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!”
On Nov. 11 at 4:40 a.m. he followed up with: “With proper Forest Management, we can stop the devastation constantly going on in California. Get Smart!”
In-between the two tweets, Trump used Twitter to urge people in the affected areas to “evacuate quickly,” praised the “[m]ore than 4,000” who are fighting the Camp and Woolsey Fires in California, and to express sympathy for the fire victims.
Idiot celebrities and clueless politicians weighed in across the fruited plain, eager to attack Trump.
“This is an absolutely heartless response,” singer Katy Perry naively tweeted. “There aren’t even politics involved. Just good American families losing their homes as you tweet, evacuating into shelters.”
California Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom (D), a strong supporter of the no-growth economic policies that caused the deadly fires, tweeted:
SNIP....
Although some may have found President Trump’s tweets about the poor quality of forest management in California jarring or ill-timed, that doesn’t change the fact that the evidence is on his side!
Read the whole article....Frontpagemagazine ^ | November
As Ayn Rand put it: "You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality."
Tramp was warned that his 2017 tax cuts for the rich would significantly stifle the ability of local governments to fund fire departments. And when that proves true, Donnie Dirtbag targets environmentalists, a group his STUPID cult followers have been programed to hate, rather than admit the fires are due to HIS policies. The pathological liar's 2018 budget includes further cuts to fire fighting funding. Tramp owns all out of control forest fires.
Welcome to the IAFF Website
The IAFF has been out front on this issue from the beginning, fighting against every attempt to eliminate or tweak this deduction. On November 3, Fairfax County, VA Local 2068 President John Niemiec was invited to speak at a press event on Capitol Hill to directly address the impacts this change would have on the fire service.
“I want to be clear, the current plan to cap the deduction would be devastating to the fire service – not just in Virginia but across the country,” said Niemiec. “In addition to affecting the fire service, taking away the deductibility of these taxes would have an impact on the lives of middle class men and women, many of whom I work beside and represent every day.”
Led by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the event also featured ranking member of the Ways & Means Committee Richard Neal (D-MA) and other community and union leaders.
Under normal circumstances, bills would be vetted in front of the American people through months of hearings where experts could speak to its benefits and shortcomings. Unfortunately, Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are planning a full vote on the floor of the House of Representatives in two weeks, bypassing regular order and the American people at the same time.
Fire Service Programs Cut by President Trump’s FY 2019 Budget
Overall, many fire service programs would be cut under the President’s proposed budget:
*This amount includes $1.5 million in the FEMA Procurement, Construction and Improvement account for capital improvements to the National Emergency Training Center.
** The Administration budget proposes transferring the VFA grants to the State and Private Forestry Account, and renaming the program as the “Rural Fire Capacity” grant program.
*** The Administration budget proposes moving the SFA grants to the State and Private Forestry Account, and renaming the SFA program as the “National Fire Capacity” grant program.
