Sunday, November 11, 2018

If only he cood git it rite, once, jus once................

 'Shameful attack': California firefighters union chief blasts Trump's wildfire tweet

"At this moment, thousands of our brother and sister firefighters are putting their lives on the line to protect the lives and property of thousands. Some of them are doing so even as their own homes lay in ruins. In my view, this shameful attack on California is an attack on all our courageous men and women on the front lines.
"The president's assertion that California's forest management policies are to blame for catastrophic wildfire is dangerously wrong. Wildfires are sparked and spread not only in forested areas but in populated areas and open fields fueled by parched vegetation, high winds, low humidity and geography. Moreover, nearly 60 percent of California forests are under federal management, and another one-third under private control. It is the federal government that has chosen to divert resources away from forest management, not California.
"Natural disasters are not "red" or "blue" – they destroy regardless of party. Right now, families are in mourning, thousands have lost homes, and a quarter-million Americans have been forced to flee. At this desperate time, we would encourage the president to offer support in word and deed, instead of recrimination and blame."

3 comments:

Catscue Cat Mom said...

Amen to that!

Summer at sparklecat.com said...

Oh! You should have heard the HBO words coming out of my human's mouth when she read that original tweet! What an awful thing to say in the middle of this huge disaster and tragedy.

catladymac said...

Oh Gidget - you are even smarter than I thought !