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Originally Posted by group911@aol.co

This. It's California- the home of the 4th or 5th highest GDP of any country in the world. They are net positive payers to the US Treasury. People actually want to live there. As Noah pointed out, the Palisades folks are out shopping for houses as we speak and likely with boatloads of cash.
Their vast population of immigrants are scrappers and will figure it all out along with everybody else. A few heads will roll and it's not likely that the water infrastructure will change much. All you naysayers put your collective heads together and try to conger up a system that will deliver a million GPM of water and then dream up those firehouses that house 30 pumpers- at the top of every canyon.

I am pretty sure that our communities do not have problems managing fires...but if we needed 30 pumpers at the top of every canyon and a million GPM of water, I am pretty sure that we would come up with a solution. Either to not build there, remove the undergrowth, or some other more reasonable design. Maybe just better detection, reporting and shorter response time (just one pumper at the head of the canyon). There was a point where just one pumper could have put out the blaze...if it had arrived before the fire grew.

The "net positive payers" line is really nonsense...as all states contribute more in taxes than they get back in direct services specifically for that state. The only way to arrive at that would be to try to make a case that money the government spends in a state on social security, military bases, civil service, and military/civil service pensions, or to buy goods/materials like military weapons, oil, etc. was somehow a gift to a state. On the contrary, people don't retire to CA and the military does not buy a lot of goods there simply because it is so expensive, and other states compete better/cost less.

It is good that Californians have "boatloads of cash" and will not need any Federal funds after this to restore the state. I was under the impression that was not the case...and the Governor was already asking the President-elect for assistance.