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Almost every single red state is a welfare queen. They exist as parasites to better run, Democratic economies, and subsist on Federal largesse.

Let's play the game. Cut these shitheel states down to their state-level economies, and use the funding for programs that allow citizens to move OUT of those states.

Reminder that California pays the highest federal taxes in the country and has never once complained about the cost of rebuilding in Florida despite annual devastating hurricanes or rebuilding in "tornado alley" despite frequent devastating tornadoes. People keep rebuilding their houses there and we never say shit.

Californians did not build their houses in wildfire country, they built them in areas that were previously safe and have now become tinderboxes thanks to climate change. It's not our fault that we are stuck holding the bag, but at least have the common courtesy of extending us the exact same aid money we send out to other high risk areas.

bOtH siDeS!

Do it, do it. Watch the federal budget crash without California.

These idiots really aren't thinking through the repercussions of denying aid to a population that's greater than almost every one of their states. What happens when pissed off Angelinos with nothing to loose start driving out to Ohio with a few gas cans and road flares?

Never mind how baseline dry California is. It’s so dry, your lips start to chap just being there. Embers in hurricane winds landing on exquisitely dry grass, brush, trees.

People who live in deserts get it. A semi can have a chain dangle too low, hit the highway, and start a brush fire.

Pod Save America has some solid, direct info on it.

This is where we are now: fall in line with status quo, or burn.

They can’t get the independent and free-thinking side of America to support them, so now they will leverage health and safety to force them into submission.

So fucking tired of these clowns.

Honest question here ... What is Ohio good for? For a state that often determines elections and can have one idiot withhold money by a baseless opinion, exactly what does that state do that holds so much sway over the rest of the country and other states?

Reminder that the late asshole, Jim Imhofe, did delay hurricane relief aid to hurricane Sandy victims. You don't see them attempting this asshole behavior for relief to Oklahoma or Florida. Every time I have suggested that someone reciprocate this behavior for red state aid, I have been shouted down. Because the behavior goes unpunished, it continues.

Luigi-stares

Ohio was on the verge of similar wildfires because of the drought this year too. There was a stretch of several weeks where the shoe was almost on the other foot. I think it was more luck, than anything, that we made it into winter largely unscathed.

California could just not pay the US gov that much easily. They get MUCH more from Cali than Cali gets from them...I hope it doesnt come to that though.

I thought it was well established that decades of forest management that included extinguishing every single fire is what has produced an excess of fuel for today's fires.

Edit: In case I am misunderstood, I'm pretty sure that kind of forest management was changed a long time ago, but the consequences are still evident. I am not saying that denying funding is in any way correct or justified. There is nothing about California's forest management that would demand that.

Somehow, I'm pretty sure California has an overall policy of "no, you get to play by the rules, or we don't let you have money."

Fuck Ohio then. GGez. Don't @ me about hypocrisy I'm done with it.

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Deny us aid and we stop sending you more federal taxes than any other state....by far.

We could use that money here.

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