Dear governor, your own fact list says you are a miserable failure with piss poor priorities. Please apologize, then resign.
Newsom’s Fire Fact Check
- FACT: CalFIRE’s budget has nearly doubled since 2019 ($2 Billion to $3.8 Billion)
- FACT: The budget for managing the forest (AKA “raking the forest”) is now TEN TIMES larger than it was when the Governor Newsom took office. It was a $200 million annual budget in 2018. The state has now invested $2 billion, in addition to the $200 million annually.
- FACT: California dramatically ramped up state work to increase wildland and forest resilience, as well as adding unprecedented resources to support wildfire response. California officials treated more than 700,000 acres of land for wildfire resilience in 2023, and prescribed fires more than doubled between 2021 and 2023.
- FACT: The Governor has called for an independent investigation into the loss of water pressure to local fire hydrants and the reported unavailability of water supplies from the Santa Ynez Reservoir.
I will accept the first four facts as true.
Hooray?
More California Facts
- CBS News: Audit finds California spent $24B on homelessness in 5 years, didn’t consistently track outcomes
- ICYMI: Newsom Extends Free Healthcare to 700,000 Illegal Immigrants Despite Record Budget Deficit
- Leader Jones Urges Governor to Save over $4 Billion by Freezing Undocumented Immigrant Medi-Cal Expansion in the Midst of a $68 Billion Deficit
- FAIR: Illegal Immigration Costs California Taxpayers Nearly $31 Billion a Year
- LAO: Medi-Cal Budget is $161 Billion
- In 2014, California voters approve $7.5 billion water bond of which none was spent. SacBee asks California voters OK’d billions for water projects. Where are the new dams, reservoirs?
- Gavin Newsom announces $3.2 billion “to completely eliminate traditional fueled vehicles in the state so we never have to suffer through the images we’re seeing in the East Coast of the United States any longer.”
Some may dispute the cost of point four. Fine, so plug in your own number.
Newsom brags about spending $3.8 billion on fire management while spending $24 billion on homeless, $4 billion on Medi-Cal expansion to illegal immigrants, and an amazing $161 billion for a single year of Medi-Cal of which Lord only knows how much is fraud and waste.
Out of Control Facts
- The fires are still raging out of control. They will eventually be contained.
- Newsom’s has always been out of control.
- Newsom’s jackass woke policies are why the state is now burning.
Dear governor, would you please explain why you spent $24 billion on homeless, are extending money you don’t have to expand benefits to illegal immigrants, and did not spend an allocated $7.5 billion on approved water projects.
More California Facts
April 28, 2024: Chipotle CEO on Menu Prices “California Isn’t Making It Easy”
Higher state minimum wage went into effect April 1; chains say burritos and burgers are getting more expensive in response.
May 20: California Governor Escalates the War on Gasoline Impacting Neighboring States
Prepare to pay another $1 per gallon in California with higher prices in Nevada and Arizona too.
June 15, 2024: Twenty Percent of California Lives in Poverty, What’s Going On?
On a cost-adjusted basis, California leads the nation in percentage living in poverty. Blame the Progressive oligarchs like Governor Newsom.
December 6, 2024: California Reaffirms an Open Arms Invitation to Illegal Immigrants
Protests based on the “California Values Act” which limits state cooperation with federal immigration authorities are underway.
June 17, 2024: Hoot of the Day: California Proposes Restraining Orders to Stop Thieves
More and more headlines look as if they are from the Babylon Bee. Let’s discuss the latest idiocrasy from la-la land.
To repeat …
Dear governor, your own fact list says you are a miserable failure with piss poor priorities.
Please apologize, then resign.