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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Southerners have been brainwashed for decades that government is bad and “outsiders” can’t be trusted. And it goes back even further in their history and psyche, but the GOP has taken advantage of it for their gain.

There’s a video of Kerr county officials saying they didn’t want to accept Biden’s $10 million because that would be “making a deal with the devil”. They decided to take it though because they “didn’t want California to get it”.  But instead of spending it on preventing these deaths, they upgraded a perfectly fine radio system and gave a few raises.

Their decision killed those people. Their stubbornness and ignorance killed those people. [/quote]

This is sadly predictable - have seen it so much in the small towns in my home state. It’s not the south but MAGA holds sway in these places though there are active Dem organizations. The little tax base they have goes towards the latest model police cars, a new fire station even though the last one was built 15 years prior (always built by the same construction family who live in the county), raises for county leaders/law enforcement but never for the frontline workers. They never spend money on afterschool programs for the kids who do not play sports, etc.

It’s a government jobs program, but the faces of those employed by it are the exact opposite of what Fox splashes on TV every night. [/quote]

It’s cute that you don’t think firefighters and police are front line workers. I stopped reading after that comment.  An alarm system similar to the Amber Alerts on phones would have cost very little. It was up to camp management to keep campers away from the flood since they banned counselors and campers from having phones.  [/quote]

DP...you missed the point. The jurisdiction used IRA money to give law enforcement a raise (ie the dems did not defund the police and note the GOP voted against this, thus supported defunding the police) but local leaders, instead of investing in infrastructure that could have mitigated the loss of life in this instance.[/quote]

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