Posted on 08/12/2012 4:09:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
I’m in Michigan. You get used to it. LOL
Indeed, Agenda 21 in action...the dark side is ramping up.
Me, too. Worse, the feds have purchased a lot of the land around here for "preserves" that we paid for and aren't even allowed to walk on. We're required to clear our property for fire control, but the feds let their brush grow thick and tall - and then dry out.
The federal gov is causing fire danger, and now they're billing us for it.
Agreed my folks moved us to southern Calif in 1953-4? I still live here but it’s not the state I grew up in. Tears for the once “Golden State “
I had a volunteer fireman tell me that if we had a big fire in the small valley we live in, they most likely wouldn’t come here. There’s no water other than the 2500 gallon tank that we have, which was an option or pay $900. Our neighbors payed $900 for fire protection when they built their house. This is a rip off.
“Impact fees” are even uglier: illegal taxes levied by fire departments against only new residents in their areas. What NIMBYs support eventually comes back to haunt them on top of their income cuts and foreclosures to come (see bond collapse, repudiation, currency adjustment, etc.).
For those of you who do not live in California and/or unfamiliar with the demographics of the state, let me rewrite that line so it is more accurate and makes sense.
More than 800,000 Californians Republicans who own property in wildfire country will begin receiving bills this week for a new annual fire-protection fee
Quit your whining Californicates. You should feel privileged and honored to pay the fee to the freely elected overseers that now control every aspect of your lives. For those who live there and are not part of the queer, freak, pervert, or stupid majority and can’t escape, you have my sympathy.
No, no. It's this: GOVERNMENT: "I will let you keep slightly less of the government's money this year."
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