bushgang to cut $500 mil from Calif. fire fighters - oh yes

[donsu]

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_3250855

Proposed cutback would ground firefighting fleet
Slashing of $500 million reserve fund is largest trim in president's budget plan


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The White House has pitched eliminating a $500 million reserve fund that is tapped to battle blazes across California and the rest of the nation during heavy fire years. The $700 million annual firefighting budget is often exceeded, with costs rising to more than $1 billion.

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The proposal is the largest aspect of a proposed $2.3 billion package of cuts across U.S. government agencies.

If combined with a related development — a proposed spending limit of $100 million next year on federal aerial firefighting — it will cut the agency's airborne efforts by 50 percent to 75 percent.

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The requirement "will effectively shut down the Forest Service's aviation program in fiscal year 2006, with the exception of some limited use of air tankers late in the fiscal year," according to the memo.
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the bushgang hates Calif. with a passion

[TomInTib]

1. Payback for us blowing MuscleHead's initiatives away..

Reminds me of the Blue Angel crap.

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. GEEZ! Just let CA. burn? WTF is wrong with these hateful people?

Have they no compassion? Oh, I forgot...OF COURSE THEY DON'T!

[TahitiNut]

16. Let's try to remember that it's often FEDERAL forests and lands that burn.

Rather than spin this as a state's issue, it really is a federal forest issue even more so. That state resources (and monies) are employed in fighting fires on federal lands with their borders might be an interesting analysis in expense distribution.

[kahleefornia]

3. wow.

just wow.

I don't see how this can go ahead though - especially after the tremendous success of the firefighters in the recent Topanga fire. California LOVES the fire crews.

Healthy forests indeed...

[kineneb]

11. yup, we loves them CDF folks

They keep us from being charcoal.

George et al, I hope your fancy houses all burn to the ground because there were no air tankers to put them out...

[msongs]

4. more GOOD news to use against arnold next year :-) nt

[Peggy Day]

9. just imagine if we had a democratic Governor nt

[goclark]

14. They would have probably lit the match

if we had a Democratic Gov.


What a crime family

[rumpel]

5. Penny wise and pound foolish, would be an understatement of the century.

on edit to add:
They have already proven, that they can not be trusted with our money, budgeting and spending.
They should be fired.

[cornermouse]

6. George needs it more than they do and

since he's already cutting the trees down, why not let some of them burn? Just another way of clearing the back 40 acres.

[rumpel]

7. and let his croonies dig for oil and other treasures...

[Media_Lies_Daily]

8. Sounds exactly like what they did in cutting funds for the N. O. leveys.

[Skink]

10. Did anybody think starving the beast was just a slogan.

We are now entering the realm of Norquist.

[aquart]

12. It's okay. The mansions of the rich are insured.

They won't mind when their homes burn down, will they? After all, they have their tax cuts and they can build again.

Unlike New Orleans, where the poor lived in the most dangerous areas, in California, the rich build multimillion dollar homes by the sea, on the cliffs, at the faultlines.

Can't wait to hear the howling when there is no one to stop those vast houses from being consumed.

[tamtam]

19. Exactly

I wonder if the good people of east county San Diego still have the cedar fire fresh in their minds. I know I sure in the hell will never forget it. Watching the flames come down the mountain one way as your trying to flee with your family and pictures the opposite way is no joke. I have never been so terrified in my whole life. I'm sure the folks of east county San Diego are scared too but they overwhelmingly voted for the chimp because they thought he wold keep them safe. Oh well, like you said those million dollar homes up in the mountains are insured to the hilt. It will be the little people who will get screwed by the insurance companies.

[aquart]

20. my sister watched those fires on the hill.

my brother in law has pictures. they slept in shifts in case they had to evacuate with the animals.

they never voted for a bush in their lives.

[slor]

13. So much for the War on Terror. Time for the War on Trees! n/t

[lisby]

15. Hey...

Haliburton needed that money really bad. Heartless liberal scum.

:sarcasm:

:hide:

[G_j]

17. no problem, timber companies will be glad to cut down all the trees

are real "win,win" see how how simple it all is?

[thereismore]

18. Let NO drown, let CA burn. nt