Summary

President Biden announced the federal government will cover 100% of costs for initial disaster response to the Los Angeles wildfires for 180 days.

The funding includes debris removal, temporary shelters, and first responder salaries.

Biden declared a major disaster, allowing immediate aid access, and directed the Pentagon to assist with firefighting resources.

With 28,000 acres burned, five deaths, and mass evacuations, Biden urged Congress to provide additional aid.

FEMA is coordinating recovery efforts on-site.

  • @[email protected]
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    63 days ago

    The difference between your service worker friends and their ultra wealthy neighbors is that your friends will likely have their insurance claims denied, delayed and defended. Meanwhile the wealthy neighbors will cash in on their multi-million dollar art insurance on top of the housing insurance, even if they managed to have their servants sneak the art out in their spare bentley.

    Then next year when your friends are still scraping by on savings the increase in premiums will come in so they can help pay for the payouts that went the rich.

    If they are lucky they’ll get 80% of the value of the house paid out and nothing for belongings.

    • @[email protected]
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      113 days ago

      You didn’t answer the premise.

      You prefer everyone get nothing in order to stick it to the rich?

      • @[email protected]
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        33 days ago

        Why even have middlemen that earn a profit for shareholders for property insurance?

        My problem is with the system, not the little guys.

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          22 days ago

          Is that your answer? So you’re saying you do prefer that no one gets any government help as long as it’s sticking it to the rich?

          • @[email protected]
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            22 days ago

            That’s what you take away from shareholders and property insurance? Those terms don’t seem to be government ones at all, whatsoever, today.

            Maybe if the system was socialized or nonprofit instead of private it could be better, but people are too selfish/corrupt. The insurance industry profits greatly from the delay, deny, defend method and that’s the way it’ll stay.