If we went to a dollar of Federal services for a dollar of Federal taxes paid, the red states would find themselves in very deep yogurt. The noisiest are biggest pigs at the Federal trough.

I wish the corporate media would actually report the hypocracy.

What really pisses me off is how quick elected Republicans are to call for Federal assistance when there’s a problem, but spend all of their time talking about how terrible ‘big government’ is. Colorado’s Republican Congresscritters are asking for more assistance for the fire in their state, having already voted to cut funding for Federal firefighting.

There isn’t a local official in my area who wasn’t much happier with the response of FEMA under Clinton, compared to what happened to the agency under the Shrubbery.

They’ll complain like hell over the lack of Federal response caused by their cutting of the budgets for the agencies that are trying to respond.

Or viruses about national borders… but the terminally stupid continue to advocate laws assuming that GOPers’ houses don’t burn and GOPers’ household workers don’t carry diseases. As with the old saying “cancer cures smoking,” it is equally true that ideologically-driven ignorance of climate change and/or disease is often self-limiting.

He has a house in La Jolla. La Jolla is a terminal point, i.e. there is only a single transmission line going in, and if it goes out, they are dark until it is repaired – you can’t route around it. That line runs through the hills where a wildfire is always a possibility. If there is a fire that takes out that line, he might change his mind about the need for firefighters, especially if he is trapped between floors in his ‘car elevator’.

You don’t need firefighters … until there is a fire, and then you need a lot of them. The Colorado fire almost doubled in size overnight and they don’t have enough people to control it. Their air resources have been grounded by the winds, so they need people on the ground to build fire breaks, and those people aren’t available because of the number of fires that have flared up.

Nature couldn’t care less about political ideology.