THE SOUND OF SILENCE

Governor Jerry Brown has appealed to President Donald Trump for $160 million in emergency aid because of the Oroville Dam crisis.  So far the response has been silence.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/13/oroville-dam-flood-danger-recedes-state-criticized/

Since Trump has been inaugurated Democrats have done everything possible to obstruct him. Governor Jerry Brown has been very vocal about this. Perhaps Tom Donnelly said it best:

California “has been so busy defying President Donald Trump in order to protect illegal aliens from deportation that it forgot to do the things government is supposed to do, like maintain infrastructure. Governor Brown is now going hat-in-hand to beg the Trump administration for emergency funds.”

At the same time California is begging Trump for money, it has plenty of money to pay huge sums to Eric Holder to defy the Trump administration in every way possible.  What goes around comes around.  . :

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-04/california-dems-retain-eric-holder-fight-clear-and-present-danger-trump

California Attorney General Becerra “is expected to be instrumental in battling with the Trump White House over any attempt to enforce stringent measures aimed at immigrants.  Mr. Brown has made clear that he intends to challenge the administration on global warming and that his attorney general will be a key to that battle.

Now it turns out California had a lot more to fear from the incompetence of Governor Brown than from anything Trump has or will do.  Trump has a lot of reason to just say no.  He could point out, correctly, that if California would use the funds it has to stop resisting him and perhaps spent a couple of bucks on things that really matter, like fixing the Oroville Dam it wouldn’t need a federal handout.  Last night on his show Tucker Carlson ended his show by pointing out that if Governor Brown had not wasted billions on an obsolete train to nowhere, he could have easily fixed the Oroville Dam.  The state has known about this problem for years.  This is a classic example of “poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”

I would love to listen in on the following phone call from President Donald Trump to Governor Jerry Brown.  “Hi Governor, sorry for the delay, but we are little backed up here because Democrats refused to approve my cabinet. In addition, I have been consulting with my team on how I can protect the country in spite of the daily obstruction by California. As you know, we have to allocate money to fight California on global warming and deporting criminal illegal aliens. I’m sorry, but right now I just can’t, in good conscience, send money to California so that you can use your resources to build worthless trains, establish a sanctuary state and defy the federal government in every way possible.”

“Tell you what Jerry, call me back when you are more responsible with the money you already have before you beg me for assistance.”

Virtually all of the problems facing California because of this winter weather were preventable.  Liberal Democrats fought Governor Schwarzenegger when he pushed to build new dams. Here is what Schwarzenegger was saying in 2008.

https://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/schwarzenegger-buffett-californias-dam/content?oid=681521

“This drought is an urgent reminder of the immediate need to upgrade California’s water infrastructure,” he said. “While we cannot control Mother Nature, what we can control is to prepare ourselves for future dry years.”

Now California is begging the federal government it wants to defy at every opportunity for a massive handout to fix problems created by its own incompetence.  Good luck with that.

TDM

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  1. Couple this fiscal chicanery & rank incompetence with, for instance, the insanity of the absurd, overly proscriptive, and grossly redundant 7 anti-Second Ammendment bills signed by moonbeam late in ’16, along with the unconstitutional, voter-induced lunacy of Prop 63’s litany of neo-prohibitionist ammo & “assault evil black gun” wish list, (all of which the impartial legislative analysts admit may indeed be cost-prohibitive, or fall under the ever popular “have yet to be determined” connivance), subsequently, an already broken middle class will bear another spending black hole, the ramifications of which yet to be even understood; it becomes abundantly clear the PRK is staring at a gaping fiduciary abyss, the result of which is due not simply to the political status quo, but more so, from a compilation of not only years of the dems robbing the State’s general fund, using it as a slush for their various political debts, (CTA, SEI, etc.), but more sinisterly, in pursuit of some progressive utopian dream that’s been more a convulsive nightmare…

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