LET THE FIRES OF LIBERTY BURN BRIGHT.

The tea-bagged masses, self-described ‘real Americans’ call the 650 million dollars in stimulus funds allotted for “wild land fire management on forest service lands” ‘Political pork.’ They say it is damn un-American to steal their hard-earned dollars, and it doesn't even matter that 500 million dollars was budgeted for states to build and improve state and local fire stations.  The stimulus was and is 100% wrong, plain and simple.


Socialism they cry.  The radical right wing flying monkey media machine, reaping a ratings bonanza wholeheartedly endorses the hysterial, and even sponsors a nationwide tour to feature the wildest and wackiest of their ranks.  Taxes are evil.  The federal government is evil. Obama is a white-hating, secret-Muslim illegal alien worse than Hitler and Stalin combined who wants to kill old people, retards, disabled veterans and the unborn.  You know the type.

Apparently, the USA also doesn’t need wild fire management. The USA doesn’t need flood control on the Mississippi. The USA doesn’t need volcano warning in the Pacific Northwest. The USA doesn’t need Hurricane warning systems in the Gulf of Mexico either….None of that shit is in the Constitution is it??  Your on your own, people. 

How many Republican voted for the stimulus?

GOP politicians promised to fight tooth and nail against the stimulus. A number of legislators vowed to refuse the money in the name of democracy. Some governors even asserted the right of their states to secede rather than except this fascist takeover of the country. Their supporters applauded. Maybe there was something to it.

But, the Angeles National Forest is now ablaze, and I am left to wonder where the unhinged fringe is on this fine day? I wonder where the Socialist-fighting Anti-Statist Armies are.

They are no doubt racing to the scene of the fires with their flag pins, AK-47 assault rifles and Bibles, prepared to protest the conflagration with their prayers, armor piercing bullets and patriotism.
Why is univeral healthcare coverage such an evil anti-American concept, but universal fire coverage isn't?   After all isn’t preventing fire the same as preventing sickness? Isn’t fighting a fire just like a fighting a disease?

The Neo-conned don’t want to pay for others to have free health insurance, why should they want to pay for others to have free fire insurance?

Sorry, Glendale, it seems that in the name of liberty, you must defend your own homes (and possibly lives too.) It’s a small price to pay, Acton – your town in exchange for freedom from the tyranny that the Socialists in charge of DC wish for.



MS
8.31.09
Fire moves west toward Santa Clarita, Sylmar; Mt. Wilson in peril