How do you feel about some rich people in L. A. hiring professional private firefighters to come to L. A. and protect their houses?

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blueonblack22 · Accepted Answer

Well let’s be honest here. If you were rich and has the means to protect your house with private fire fighters would you let your house burn to the ground or would use your resources to prevent that from happening?

Anyway this is still a full demonstration of gross hypocrisy of Hollywood leftist elitists. They voted in and endorsed incompetent politicians and policies that left LA residents unprotected and unprepared. And wild fires have been a long time well known threat to this area.

BUT I want to be considerate of the local residents who are losing their homes (and few of them lost their lives) to this natural disaster. I do not wish that on anyone including people I ideologically disagree with.

I have friends in that area and I’m very concerned about them. So let’s be considerate about making this a political issue (although it really is) and bring up that up AFTER the fires are under control and finally put out.

I do have much more to say but again it’s rude to the people who are in the thick of right now to go off on politics.

beefcakebradybatson · Accepted Answer

Which is why Proposition 13, now a half-century old, led to this disgusting inequity. Since taxes must be approved by referanda (though frankly, I don't know if Proposition 13 is still on the books as law), and the rich racist oldsters of the Ronnie Ray-Guns gubernatorial era weren't about to aid people of colour through their taxes, infrastructure and schools, including universities slowly eroded. I read in "The USA Today" that, despite 40% more Angelinos in the past 65 years, there are six fewer fire stations and fewer actual and FAR FEWER proportionally fire fighters, so the idea of the rich having to hire professional firefighters while everyone else loses their life or property comes into horrific play in a city with 212,000 millionaires (just 20,000 fewer than Windsor's total population, and 43 billionaires) and 75,000 homeless people.

BeeNee · Accepted Answer

If you could, and had the money, are you saying you wouldn't?

strateguy632 · Answer

That shows how horrible the mismanagement is. They shouldn't NEED TO.

It is not like putting a lock on your bike because fire fighters were supposed to be arranged including water pressure in hydro hydrants!

Obviously some can and did but they shouldn't NEED TO.

Avicenna · Answer

It’s unsurprising when you consider the leftists’ abject and utter failure to provide decent public goods (something typical of a Communist country) and actually benefits all of us who own property nationwide- if more expensive real estate is destroyed, our premiums will be even higher (they’re going up as a result of these fires anyway),.

lightbulb27 · Answer

I feel the same as our rich hiring private police… the public failed them. But it was their decision.

I feel like they should rethink their public decisions ir stay where they are and not pollute some other area with their flawed thinking.

Phoenix98 · Answer

If I was that rich then I'd probably do the same thing to be honest so I can't really fault them for protecting their property. We all would if we could anyone who say's differently is lying.

My heart goes out to the folks affected by the fires but at the same thing it needs to be realized that they kind of brought this upon themselves by voting in incompetent politicians who left the state and everyone in it vulnerable.

Joshydavid25 · Answer

Honestly, good for them.. The rich pay most of the taxes, so if they found a way to protect their property and not leave the state, that's a plus for everyone else.. Plus, that's the way it should be.. A free market for fire fighters would make the world a safe place..

exitseven · Answer

The town I live in is having budgetary issues. The selectmen decided that they would "privatize" the transfer station. This means that they will charge $350 bucks a year and it will only be open 3 days a week instead of 5. Maybe they will start charging by the bag too. I wonder what gets "privatized" next. Maybe the fire dept? This is what happens when democrats run the town.

genericname85 · Answer

i feel like if that result of dei bullshit doesn't convince you that dei is bullshit, you're lost in life. like why do you think the professionals aren't succeeding in actually fighting the fire? you know the one job they have. well look at the people who got hired to be the heads of the LA fire departement...

Unit1 · Answer

How do you feel about some rich people in L. A. hiring professional private firefighters to come to L. A. and protect their houses?

Sensible to say the least. If you, the reader 🫵 had the money and a wildfire threat is on it's way to burn down your house to ruins, you too would do that.

This further proves, that being broke is shit.

Anonymous · Answer

Fine with me. That's money the city didn't spend on its fire department. Its also generally saving the more valuable and less replaceable property over the less valuable and more easily replaceable property.

As a rule anyone putting out any house file helps reduce the spread of the same fire.

If that house needed to burn down the city should have had the military do it.

molonski2 · Answer

It's a free market and a worthwhile investment, fire fighters live on average 10 years less , they need some money making ventures. Morally it completely sucks , but that's the USA system at work.

Ifdyourmom · Answer

Not going to do much good. L. A. is under constant threat of fire. Most places in the world are, but, especially in L. A. They'll wind up spending more money on something, that's inevitable

ohsheeT · Answer

How do you feel having your brand new mountain bike parked out in front of the 7-Eleven without a lock on it

AviatorTom · Answer

One of the perks of being wealthy... but it doesn't always work. Several wealthy people have lost their homes, burned to the ground.

Drumlin2001 · Answer

Good luck to the. Is it any different to private security or private doctors. If you have the resources, use them

jamesgoldman · Answer

I don't but it's the way things used to be hundreds and even thousands of years ago look at Georgian Britain and Marcus Licinius Crassus

Dongie · Answer

Eeh,🥕, they should pay to bring in enough to end the whole thing.🐰

Godihateyou · Answer

I feel like if they pay me $100 an hour I'll do it.

Tomisworthless · Answer

not an issue, used to be called fire insurance

msc545 · Answer

It is very disturbing.

Sirenboobzilla · Answer

If i had the money to do it, I 100% would

oldpigg · Answer

I don't care what happens to the rich.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

On their off time then fine.

Bonnaroo · Answer

That’s craaazzzzyyyy

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