Blue City genius: Defunding the firefighters in Los Angeles

[mystery-ak]

January 17, 2025
Blue City genius: Defunding the firefighters in Los Angeles
By Monica Showalter

For all the talk about defunding the police in blue county Los Angeles, major fires revealed that what at least one blue government really ended up defunding was the fire department.

In Los Angeles, the logic appears to be maybe the fire won't happen, so let's spend cash on special interests. Or, with Mexican firefighters coming in to help douse the flames, 'who needs firefighters when you can get Mexicans to do the job for less?'

Sure, it's cynical to imagine that this is the business model, but it was quite a fast one they pulled, which as we can see now, was exceptionally tragic for Los Angeles with 9.6 million people and a $45 billion county budget, taking on two major fires in the Palisades and Altadena regions almost completely unprepared.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/blue_city_genius_defunding_the_firefighters_in_los_angeles.html

[DefiantMassRINO]

Liberals like to cut Public Safety budgets first to create urgency around new proposed tax increases.

[SZonian]

Liberals like to cut Public Safety budgets first to create urgency around new proposed tax increases.

Exactly. Does anyone here think for one second that any tax increase which mentions "fire" will not be embraced?
Hell, they even used fake fire fighters in political ads to get a statewide gas tax increase approved in the name of "public safety".
These people have absolutely no principles nor shame. Unconscionable.