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there's a level of incompetence
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bordering on criminal negligence here
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that we need to get to the bottom of
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remember that crazy apocalyptic video of
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that exact same part of Southern
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California burning to the ground that
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was 6 years ago this is not like it was
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a distant memory from a hundred years
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ago this idea that we were just Lolly
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gagging around and got caught off guard
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by 100 mph winds to me is completely not
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an acceptable answer there's this
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California Environmental Quality act and
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a whole bunch of these other regulatory
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policies that limited the ability of
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local governments and fire management to
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clear dead trees and vegetation multiple
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bills AB 2330 ab1 1951 AB 2639 that
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would have Exempted these Wildfire
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prevention projects from squa and other
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pering issues all rejected by the
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Democrat controlled legislature or worse
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vetoed by Governor New I think that
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that's a really big deal I'm just a
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little bit at a loss to explain these
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two bodies of data everybody can see
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that these events are happening all the
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bills that are meant to prevent this are
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blocked or veto this is the ultimate
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expression of negligence and
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incompetence how much money did the
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government of California spend poorly as
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it turns out on homelessness it was
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about $21 billion and illegal immigrants
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I don't know what the final number is
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there but I suspect in the tens of
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billions if you reappropriated those
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dollars to these kinds of protective
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mechanisms in these areas what would the
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the outcome have been it's hard for me
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to believe it would have been as bad as
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it is right now