California governor signs wildfire bill to pay victims
"The fund is only for future wildfire victims. Victims of the most recent wildfires — including the 2018 Northern California fire that destroyed most of the town of Paradise and killed 85 people — are not eligible for the money." So, then what is the purpose of looting 21 billion for....? The next one? Can't they take the lessons from the last one? So they leave the thousansds of people to fight in bankruptcy court or their insurance companies to get restitution? And "force" the utilities to spend 5 billion on improvements? Don't they already do that? This is just a 21 billion money grab no one will ever seen. Looting as a fine art. And the sheeple lap it up.
I searched for years to find an oasis overseas without success. Gotta be a multimillionaire to have "rights" overseas; that's where America is heading, too.
But if the government is to be conscripted into acting as an agent for charitable contributions, based on imputed generosity (which I oppose; there's major evidence of abuse), then there is no excuse for not demanding conservation easements on all real estate that was damaged and for which the government helps out the owners or their insurers. That way, although each piece of ground in a flood or earthquake or fire zone can inspire one monetary rescue at great expense to the taxpayers, after the government has paid compensation the ground will forever after be immune from subsequent claims because nothing can be built on it that can later be damaged.
Of course the Rich Liberals with their costly beachfront houses and their San Andreas Fault mansions will pretend not to understand this reasoning. I think we at the Gulch are smarter than that.
I fail to see how it puts pressure on PG&E.
If anything, it takes pressure off of them.
It looks like another politically motivated fund that will have rate players on the hook, not the utilities companies.
Typical California solution by a typical lefty liberal governor.
The pervious governor totally failed in his "dream" high speed rail that he doggedly pushed, getting billions from the government only to pull it before he left. The new governor Newsom has no intention of paying it back despite president Trump's request: Of course, they can't pay it back, it is swallowed up by his new "idea" of providing illegal immigrants full health care coverage.
Now they are escalating, ruin upon ruin, shooting for twice the cost the rail would have cost.
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