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Boogiemack

(1,406 posts)
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 09:34 AM Oct 2020

Does it even bother the Cali uber rich that Trump refuses emergency funding to them for fires?

Are they so wealthy that one or tow burned mansions don't matter to them so they don't care if the lowly working class can't get emergency funding?

How many times has emergency funding been denied any state for natural disasters? Have any red states been refused emergency funding for flooding for those who choose to live near the water?

Why isn't the media exposing this more? The next natural disaster could come anywhere and just because it happens to a blue state doesn't mean RWingers won't get hurt and lose homes and jobs.

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Does it even bother the Cali uber rich that Trump refuses emergency funding to them for fires? (Original Post) Boogiemack Oct 2020 OP
Maybe Trump figures they can use their tax cut to rebuild. no_hypocrisy Oct 2020 #1
well, I'm 16 miles from Colorado's largest wildfire EVER on record: Cameron Peak fire hlthe2b Oct 2020 #2
Nope, they're not the ones who will never be made whole from their losses. onecaliberal Oct 2020 #3

hlthe2b

(102,328 posts)
2. well, I'm 16 miles from Colorado's largest wildfire EVER on record: Cameron Peak fire
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 09:42 AM
Oct 2020

which two days ago and predicted again today, had winds blowing burning embers even in Fort Collins neighborhoods across the one geographic barrier that would protect us, Horsetooth Reservoir, just west of the first foothills. The risk of grassfires being ignited is signficant and my friends closest to the western limits of Fort Collins and both in poor health/ isolated due to COVID precautions, are having to remove valuable belongings & board dogs, just to make the trip to Denver for chemotherapy today.

So, it is hardly something we NON-wealthy are not taking seriously. I am so damned angry, I could spit nails, but it falls to the background of ALL that is making me stressed and angry lately re: Trump. I can't imagine Californians in that area are not feeling similarly.

Here's one of the most recent evacuation maps that illustrates just how serious this is.



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