It’s fucked up to see the usual suspects politicizing the issue and acting like total morons when firefighting as it stands today wasn’t born out of some grand political scheme—it was born out of a harsh reality. In LA, when you try to dig the scrubland out of these hills to prevent fires, all you’re doing is setting up a landslide disaster and polluting the watershed. And it doesn’t help that, with their constant lobbying, the Mayor thinks it’s OK to scrap $23 million from the firefighting city budget to give it to the LAPD, all to appease the Chamber of Commerce, anti-homeless groups, and proponents of jail labor.

It’s fucked up to see the usual suspects politicizing the issue and acting like total morons when firefighting as it stands today wasn’t born out of some grand political scheme—it was born out of a harsh reality. In LA, when you try to dig the scrubland out of these hills to prevent fires, all you’re doing is setting up a landslide disaster and polluting the watershed. And it doesn’t help that, with their constant lobbying, the Mayor thinks it’s OK to scrap $23 million from the firefighting city budget to give it to the LAPD, all to appease the Chamber of Commerce, anti-homeless groups, and proponents of jail labor.

https://www.foxla.com/news/bass-proposed-city-budget-includes-more-funding-for-lapd-cuts-for-lafd.amp

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Huge fuck up that will sadly be forgotten. I’m ashamed of how our local and state gov is run but people keep voting in the same cogs