by Ace
One big change they’re looking at:
Many Californians don’t have home insurance. They don’t have it because the communist government of California banned insurance companies from raising rates commensurate with the major risk of fire (caused by the California government itself), so insurers simply stopped doing business in the state.
California’s government said that the state would insure these uninsured homes — but they don’t have anywhere near the money to cover the massive losses they’ve caused.
So they want the rest of us to pay for their folly. As usual.
California will now be demanding that the citizens of the non-communist states pay for the costs of their communism.
They need to be told that communists can pay for themselves with all their magical communist money.
As wildfires rage in California, Republicans in Washington have begun discussing whether to condition federal aid on changes to policies they blame for the blazes.”It’s part of the discussion right now,” Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital. “People are unwilling to just stroke a check for something that, quite honestly, they still have a lot of questions. And obviously, the fires are still burning, so we don’t even know what the total is going to be at the end of the day.”
The Los Angeles area has been grappling with multiple deadly wildfires in recent days, with nearly 100,000 Californians under evacuation orders.
Officials are far from knowing what the final damage estimates will be, as well as how much additional funding will need to be approved by Congress.
But a broad cross-section of Republicans are already blaming the Democratic stronghold state’s policies and management for exacerbating the issue.
“I think there’s going to be a lot of questions raised about it, but we also want to work cooperatively with, you know, everybody on both sides of the aisle,” House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., said when asked about conditioning aid. “But I think that’s just the reality. There’s gonna be some questions we’ll be asking.”
Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee’s subcommittee on housing and insurance, said it was too early to be discussing possible specific conditions but criticized California’s home insurance policies.
“I think there’s real issues… For far too long, California state laws have been pushing out insurers from that state, making it even harder to get home insurance,” Flood told Fox News Digital.
“I think California’s got to do a couple of things. They have to demonstrate that they are going to create an environment where home insurance, housing insurance, is reflected in the risk, that they understand the risk, and they are pricing accordingly. And then, as it relates to forestry management, I think there’s a lot of members of Congress who will wanna say, ‘How did this happen? What kind of policies led to this?'”
Meanwhile, members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, who typically are adamant about steep cuts to offset any supplemental government spending, are no different on California’s fires.
“It’s got to be more than paid for. They’ve got to own it,” Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., told reporters. “California has never been exactly the most conservative state in terms of spending. We’ve got to get a pound of flesh on any dollar spent on California, in my opinion.”
Quick, let’s reward Newsom and Bass for their incompetence.
The unnamed fire department veteran told Schellenberger’s Public Substack, “We don’t have enough engines, and 100 were in the shop” He also said that “Lack of leadership is the problem.”
…But as fires continue to rage out of control, it’s increasingly clear that the response to the fires by California’s leaders was inadequate. The LA Department of Water and Power had drained the city’s second-largest reservoir of water, which was right near the Palisades fire, and failed to notify the County or City Fire Department. The National Weather Service (NWS) warned of “extreme fire risk” on January 2, the NWS – Los Angeles held a briefing on January 3, and yet Mayor Bass flew to Ghana anyway. Newsom did not call out the National Guard until Friday and did not mobilize national and international help until the last few days.
One thing we won’t have to spend money on is an investigation into the causes of this regularly-scheduled apocalyptic fire — because the media already has all the answers.
Never let a crisis go to waste!
The leftist media used the California wildfires to amplify their climate change agenda.
by @Banned_Bill pic.twitter.com/XfoCcQ0GIX
— MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) January 14, 2025
CBS “News” knows a secondary cause of the devastation — and no, it’s not “Democrat mismanagement.”
It’s “suburban sprawl.” Once again, the real culprit is people who don’t want to live in Democrat cities with all of their crime, disease, and misery.
Get into your Government-Provided Hab Units, sub-peons!
How suburban sprawl and climate change are making wildfires more destructive
Meanwhile, Biden is so pleased with himself that he’s sending out checks in the amount of $770 to each California wildfire victim.
BIDEN: "People impacted by these fires are gonna receive one-time payment of $770. One-time payment." pic.twitter.com/9E7Toj5BEo
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 14, 2025
As PJ Media points out — don’t expect the residents of a blue state to have to beg and scrape to get that payment, as the victims of the hurricane in North Carolina and Georgia had to.
Kamala to wildfire victims: "It's critically important that, to the extent you can find anything that gives you an ability to be patient in this extremely dangerous and unprecedented crisis, that you do." pic.twitter.com/zjV2KVxr8u
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 14, 2025
Unprecedented? It happens every other year, like clockwork.
Julia Roberts, who campaigned for Kamala and who supported, I’d bet every dime I have, the “reform” to criminal law decriminalizing crime, is now angry that the homes of her rich Hollywood pals are being looted.
The just spend 50 million to stop Trump from exporting their looters, and at least 1 arsonist.
As a State Farm customer, I breathe a sigh of relief my insurance company will still be in business.
How about the cant tax the rebuilders(if they let them) any higher than replacement building costs it does not cost 2 or 3 million to build a standard 3 bedroom ranch. Cement board siding and metal roof.
Back when the Spanish explorers first came to So Cal, they learned the Indians there called the LA basin the “Valley of Smoke.”
How did they build as a result of learning that the place caught fire every year?
Adobe and tile roof.
Old adobes from that era still stand.
They also created wells, reservoirs and even tried to train the river washes to bring rainwater more evenly thru the Los Angeles Basin.
I often wonder how the lefties, the CA “fruits and nuts,” got so dumb as to turn their backs on how to build and live in So Cal.
The first order of business at camp when I bought deep in the woods was to clear first the brush and remove the dead wood and trees. We have a museum in the area featuring the Peshtigo fire, happened the same day as the Chicago fire. The Governors wife stopped a train filled with fire aid going to Chicago and turned it North. The fire burned so hot it cleared stumps from the ground, 1500 dead a swath 10 miles by 40 miles 280,000 acres. 1871 The trees are back.
The Electric co-op is burying all the lines, maybe something Cali should consider.
I keep it mowed, to hold down the ticks and not give mosquitos cover.
https://www.weather.gov/grb/peshtigofire2
Governor Nuisance allows for the L.A. Area to burn up over a worthless 3 inch fish(Delta Smelt)and the Brain Dead Eco-Freaks will still follow him and support him
Ready for this, that damn Delta Smelt is EXTINCT in the Sacramento River. They haven’t found one in 5 years.
IMPEACH Newsom
They tell us that the Marbled Murrlet needs Old Growth Trees for their Nests but Field Guides shows its range is from the San Francisco Bay to the Alaska Panhandle
Governor Nuisance Go Snort a Delta Smelt up your Snout and GO AWAY
Why should taxpayers pay for the errors of the Marxists of California. Let them pay for their own errors.
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