I Live in Pacific Palisades and I Know Who Caused the Fire

[westwall]

It still has not burned.

1880's had one, and there was a big fire in the 1960's when I still lived there.

And it is getting worse

Yeah, thanks to gross mismanagement of the wildlands, and urban interface.

Duh.

 

[Lesh]

I have read the history and it m’s never been like this

 

[westwall]

I have read the history and it m’s never been like this

Then why did the explosive wildfires not begin to explode in frequency till AFTER California became a democrat supermajority?

 

[georgephillip]

Vote Democrat, vote your own doom. And too many Americans are brain-dead, and vote Democrat. How esle explain 75 million voting for such a nobody like Kamala Harris?

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As officials investigate what caused Los Angeles’ devasting fires, I know the answer. It was the homeless. The LA Fire Department reports that 54% of fires in 2023 were started by homeless. They responded to almost 14,000 fires that year alone related to homelessness!​

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Regardless of whether the Pacific Palisades fire was directly started by a homeless person, the extent of the destruction from the fire can be attributed to the homeless. A few months ago, a LA City Council person reported to me that she spends 80 percent of her time on LA’s homeless problem. Eighty percent! That does not leave much time to focus on the basic needs of the average tax paying LA resident, such as water, power, sanitation, safety, security, roads, sidewalks, traffic, parks, beaches, schools, firefighting and fire prevention. And when the mayor feels free to jet off to Ghana for a presidential inauguration on the other side of the globe, we cannot assume the other twenty percent of time is well spent.​

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In addition, the Council passed a budget for this year providing $1.3 Billion for homeless-related expenses. The same budget cut spending on the fire department by $17 million! ​

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If LA simply put the ban back in place, and enforced it, the homeless problem would go away. The problem started when a court barred LA from enforcing its no camping law. But that decision was overturned last year by the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet, unlike most cities, LA has not put the ban back in place. Instead, all of LA is open for camping: sidewalks, parks, beaches, etc. There is a very limited number of designated no camping locations, such as outside a kindergarten. But even those exceptions are now being debated by the council. ​

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Instead, the council and mayor have embarked on a plan to find permanent housing for anyone and everyone on the street, no matter where they come from. In addition to the $1.3 Billion budgeted for homeless, a new LA County sales tax for homeless housing and services will provide another estimated $1.1 Billion. ​

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A recent study by the Westside Current found that LA has acquired 2,750 housing units (condos, apartments, or hotel rooms) at a cost of close to $1 Billion. One of the buildings purchased for $36.6 million still had an active website advertising “luxury” apartment featuring “spacious, modern elegance” and “sweeping views of LA.” The units feature balconies and a rooftop deck offering “stunning views of the Hollywood sign . . . in a great neighborhood with plenty of restaurants, shops and bars within walking distance, and just minutes from Beverly Hills.” That is double the cost of the fire department budget cut.​

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The plan has been in place for years but has hardly put a dent in the problem. The word is out that LA is a good place to go if you want to live outside, so more and more come.​

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The LA city council consists of about two thirds’ Democrats, one third Democrat Socialists of America (DSA), and zero Republicans. It uses the homeless problem as an excuse to implement its far-left agenda, which includes rent controls, tenant eviction protections, mansion taxes, free basic income, reparations, sanctuary laws, and free housing for all.​

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For the City’s leaders, basic services that most Angelenos care about, like firefighting, are at the bottom of their list of priorities.​

I Live in Pacific Palisades and I Know Who Caused the Fire – California Globe

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"If LA simply put the ban back in place, and enforced it, the homeless problem would go away."

Where would the "homeless problem" go, Malibu, Pacific Palisades?

Lack of affordable housing, low wages, job loss, and the Covid-19 pandemic have all exacerbated the risk of homelessness.

Substance abuse makes mental health conditions like depression, schizophrenia, and PTSD function to make any chance of escaping homelessness a long-shot, at best.

Structural racism partially explains why people of color and the indigenous population are disproportionally represented among the homeless.

Economic inequality is a feature and not a bug of capitalism; as the wealth accumulates in fewer and fewer hands with each passing generation, symptoms of societal decay like homelessness will only grow worse.

 

[IM2]

Did climate change cause 12 million people along with hundreds of thousands of homes and business structures, to congregate in an area already lacking in water resources?

Does climate change cause people to live in sparsely populated areas that get wasted by tornadoes?

 

[westwall]

Does climate change cause people to live in sparsely populated areas that get wasted by tornadoes?

No.

 

[Robert W]

Lack of affordable housing, low wages, job loss, and the Covid-19 pandemic have all exacerbated the risk of homelessness.

Substance abuse makes mental health conditions like depression, schizophrenia, and PTSD function to make any chance of escaping homelessness a long-shot, at best.

Here are stone cold facts.

Millions of Americans work for a living. It means that going to work is normal. Biden did nothing to solve homeless problems. Biden went crazy spending money he did not own. His spending spree was money removed mostly from the rich. Drug use is a major component of being homeless. Drugs cause workers to lose jobs. Drugs promote a life of crime. Fentanyl kills humans. Democrats running cities prefer to target Christians to criminals.

 

[georgephillip]

Here are stone cold facts.

Millions of Americans work for a living. It means that going to work is normal. Biden did nothing to solve homeless problems. Biden went crazy spending money he did not own. His spending spree was money removed mostly from the rich. Drug use is a major component of being homeless. Drugs cause workers to lose jobs. Drugs promote a life of crime. Fentanyl kills humans. Democrats running cities prefer to target Christians to criminals.

Drug abuse and homelessness are symptoms of a society in decay; the US Empire has run its course, and those who've "earned" the greatest amount of money from its terror are counting on their politicians like Trump and Biden to ensure there won't be another New Deal to claw back some of their blood-soaked gains.

I'm not sure where you got the idea that Biden took money away from the rich, since he made it clear long before his election where his sympathies lie:

https://www.axios.com/2019/06/19/joe-biden-wealthy-donors-demonize

"Biden to wealthy donors: 'No one's standard of living will change'"​

"Speaking about income inequality to approximately 100 donors, Biden said that he's found that 'rich people are just as patriotic as poor people.'

"'We can disagree in the margins but the truth of the matter is it's all within our wheelhouse and nobody has to be punished. No one's standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change.'"

 

[westwall]

Drug abuse and homelessness are symptoms of a society in decay; the US Empire has run its course, and those who've "earned" the greatest amount of money from its terror are counting on their politicians like Trump and Biden to ensure there won't be another New Deal to claw back some of their blood-soaked gains.

I'm not sure where you got the idea that Biden took money away from the rich, since he made it clear long before his election where his sympathies lie:

https://www.axios.com/2019/06/19/joe-biden-wealthy-donors-demonize

"Biden to wealthy donors: 'No one's standard of living will change'"​

"Speaking about income inequality to approximately 100 donors, Biden said that he's found that 'rich people are just as patriotic as poor people.'

No, they are signs of despair, and a realization that government hates them.

 

[Robert W]

Drug abuse and homelessness are symptoms of a society in decay; the US Empire has run its course, and those who've "earned" the greatest amount of money from its terror are counting on their politicians like Trump and Biden to ensure there won't be another New Deal to claw back some of their blood-soaked gains.

I'm not sure where you got the idea that Biden took money away from the rich, since he made it clear long before his election where his sympathies lie:

https://www.axios.com/2019/06/19/joe-biden-wealthy-donors-demonize

"Biden to wealthy donors: 'No one's standard of living will change'"​

"Speaking about income inequality to approximately 100 donors, Biden said that he's found that 'rich people are just as patriotic as poor people.'

It is easy for Democrats to push blame on society. And never at any time can they explain that faulty logic. We Republicans bust our asses to improve this nation. And try to stop cities from having drug infested streets or so many locked up. Biden has really gone after the rich. Income quality is a dream of Marxists.

 

[georgephillip]

It is easy for Democrats to push blame on society. And never at any time can they explain that faulty logic. We Republicans bust our asses to improve this nation. And try to stop cities from having drug infested streets or so many locked up. Biden has really gone after the rich. Income quality is a dream of Marxists.

Republicans bust their asses making rich people richer; one major pillar of this looting is convincing millions of working Americans that housing is a commodity.

It isn't.

Housing is a human right, and not a cash cow for private equity parasites.

When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord

"Private equity is now the dominant form of financial backing among the 35 largest owners of multifamily buildings, the analysis showed. In 2011, about a third of the apartment units held by the top owners were backed by private equity. A decade later, half of them were."

 

[georgephillip]

No, they are signs of despair, and a realization that government hates them.

In a society with the best government money can buy, rich people do not exist without homelessness
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1866477597804368039?lang=en

 

[westwall]

In a society with the best government money can buy, rich people do not exist without homelessness
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1866477597804368039?lang=en

Homelessness exists worldwide. For most it's a choice. For some it's a result of bad life decisions, and for others it's because of government interference.

 

[georgephillip]

Homelessness exists worldwide. For most it's a choice. For some it's a result of bad life decisions, and for others it's because of government interference.

When government increased the number of billionaires from 49 in 1987 to around 748 billionaires in 2023, was that an example of government interference?

SnglWmn04 - Coalition For The Homeless

 

[westwall]

When government increased the number of billionaires from 49 in 1987 to around 748 billionaires in 2023, was that an example of government interference?

SnglWmn04 - Coalition For The Homeless

In some cases yeah, it is. But most billionaires are self made. They do the hard work, and take the risks.

The problem is once you're a billionaire it's easy to find corrupt politicians and buy them. Then you have them pass laws that make it easier for you to make more money, in a corrupt way, while eliminating your competitors.

That's why the power of government should ALWAYS be kept very weak.

 

[Robert W]

Republicans bust their asses making rich people richer; one major pillar of this looting is convincing millions of working Americans that housing is a commodity.

It isn't.

Housing is a human right, and not a cash cow for private equity parasites.

I sold homes for a living for over 30 years. I appraised homes for customers needing loans for years. I ended up owning a mortgage company for years.

I never saw any person that had the right to own housing. If they had no job, no income, no cash, who would sell them a home, appraise such a home or loan them money? It is not true at all.

 

[georgephillip]

In some cases yeah, it is. But most billionaires are self made. They do the hard work, and take the risks.

The problem is once you're a billionaire it's easy to find corrupt politicians and buy them. Then you have them pass laws that make it easier for you to make more money, in a corrupt way, while eliminating your competitors.

That's why the power of government should ALWAYS be kept very weak.

Money, markets, and corporations are all integral to the creation of individual fortunes, and they are all creations of government.

Billionaires are not made by an invisible hand's objective appraisal of their marginal utility but rather the politically constructed laws and institutions that structure economic activity in a given society.

Deregulation involves just as much government interference as regulation, but one redistributes income and wealth upwards and the other accomplishes to exact opposite.

"'…there is always a lag after deregulation and the creation of artificial liquidity. That was true for ‘roaring ‘20s’ followed by the crash and Great Depression; the ‘great moderation’ of the early 2000s followed by the crash and Great Recession; the deregulation of the first Trump administration in 2017-2020 that led to the 2023 banking crisis when 3 of the 4 largest bank failures in US history happened. Much worse is likely to happen next time.'"

Wall Street Watchdog Warns “Clock Is Ticking on a Coming Catastrophic Financial Crash”

 

[westwall]

Money, markets, and corporations are all integral to the creation of individual fortunes, and they are all creations of government.

Billionaires are not made by an invisible hand's objective appraisal of their marginal utility but rather the politically constructed laws and institutions that structure economic activity in a given society.

Deregulation involves just as much government interference as regulation, but one redistributes income and wealth upwards and the other accomplishes to exact opposite.

"'…there is always a lag after deregulation and the creation of artificial liquidity. That was true for ‘roaring ‘20s’ followed by the crash and Great Depression; the ‘great moderation’ of the early 2000s followed by the crash and Great Recession; the deregulation of the first Trump administration in 2017-2020 that led to the 2023 banking crisis when 3 of the 4 largest bank failures in US history happened. Much worse is likely to happen next time.'"

Wall Street Watchdog Warns “Clock Is Ticking on a Coming Catastrophic Financial Crash”

Yeah, they are. Build the better mousetrap and the world rushes to your door.

You can post endless reems of your socialist propaganda, but that's all it is, propaganda.

 

[georgephillip]

I never saw any person that had the right to own housing. If they had no job, no income, no cash, who would sell them a home, appraise such a home or loan them money? It is not true at all.

To say housing is a human right is not saying there's a human right to own a home.

Did you ever participate in NINJA loans?

NINJA Loan.

"NINJA loans, which were usually a part of the subprime mortgage market, created a burden on the credit markets before the financial crisis. When the subprime loans were underwritten, they were then sold to the 'Big Banks' and put into an asset-backed security that formed a portion of a collateralized debt obligation (CDO)."

 

[Leo123]

Recall Newsom......Again.