LA County cut fire budget while spending heavily on DEI, woke items: ‘Midnight Stroll Transgender Cafe’
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LA County cut fire budget while spending heavily on DEI, woke items: ‘Midnight Stroll Transgender Cafe’
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[article link](https://www.yahoo.com/news/la-county-cut-fire-budget-224834109.html?guccounter=1)
California prioritized DEI and woke programs over fire safety. Could this be a walkaway wake up call for millions of California democrats?
I feel bad for the thousands of lives affected by these fires but can’t help but think that if they don’t reconsider their political choices, they are destined to repeat this disaster. California prioritized DEI and woke programs over fire safety. Could this be a walkaway wake up call for millions of California democrats?
Sounds about right
> For the 2023-2024 fiscal year, Los Angeles budgeted $837 million for the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD)
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> hundreds of thousands of dollars were allocated to fund programs such as a “Gay Men’s Chorus” and housing for the transgender homeless.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that spending $14k on the gay men’s chorus is probably not impacting fire response efforts when the LAFD has an $800 million budget.
They want you to be mad at gay and trans people and you guys are taking the bait hook line and sinker, congratulations.
This whole sub lately is just random hate. And the amounts of money were less than a dollar per person in the city..practically nothing. If you genuinely cared, maybe you should look where most of the water is going and MAYBE promote desalination plants
Oh, so now the MAGA crew are all for increasing public funding for government agencies, like the fire department? That’s great. I expect to see a huge increase in funding when Trump starts, right?
I wonder if the largest ever wild fires in LA’s history were caused by the fact the area has had no rain in 2024 and is tinder dry? I wonder if this unusually dry weather is caused by that climate change thing those scientists and meteorologists keep banging on about? Hmmmm, just a thought.
First, the LA fire department’s budget actually increased by more than 7% compared to the previous fiscal year:
[https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/how-much-did-the-l-a-fire-department-really-cut-its-budget](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/how-much-did-the-l-a-fire-department-really-cut-its-budget)
Second, LA county has a budget of $49.2 billion for the 2024-2025 fiscal year ([source](https://ceo.lacounty.gov/budget/)). The amount allocated to the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles ($14,010), for instance, represents less than 0.000029% of the total budget. For perspective, that costs your average LA resident less than a fifth of a cent per year.