Good Thing Money Was Allocated To Fight Fires Out West, Right?

Good thing Sheriff Joe is keep an eye on the happenings in Tombstone

Nearly $3 million in stimulus money targeted for fighting wildfires is being spent to restore public parks and watersheds in the nation’s capital, which has no national forests.

The Forest Service has directed that $2.8 million in “Wildland Fire Management” funds, approved under the economic stimulus law, go to groups that will create “green jobs” in the District of Columbia. The projects are intended to restore public parks and watersheds in the city and highlight the value of urban parks, including a park 2 miles north of the White House that once was plagued by crime.

The spending angered a group of Western lawmakers, who noted that the District of Columbia has no national forests and that forests throughout the West continue to burn. A huge wildfire in Southern California blackened nearly 250 square miles of the Angeles National Forest and resulted in the deaths of two firefighters whose truck plunged off a mountain road.

“The last major fire in D.C. was likely lit by British troops in 1814,” said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., who is leading Western lawmakers’ effort to strip the city of the money. “There are many wasteful and wild schemes born in Washington, but this takes the cake.”

So, if we were going to use the same talking points the Liberals used the past 8 years, we could blame Obama for those fires and the deaths of 2 firefighters. Of course, it is only $2.8 of a supposed $500 million intended for wildland fire management. Still, isn’t it good to know that some money is being used to give worthless liberals jobs manicuring lawns in the D.C. area.

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John Ryan says:

September 26, 2009 at 8:26 pm

Teach the only mention of jobs in the article you cite here is the actual quote “About $90,000 is slated for “a green summer job corps” that will employ about 100 District teenagers, who will collect data as well as mulch, water and prune trees around town.”
I pesume that the worthless liberals that would be getting these jobs are those 100 teenagers in D.C.
Also %0% of the 500 million will go NOT to fight fires on Federal lands but on state and private lands. Well Teach I have more of a problem with my tax money going to fight forest fires on private land than 0.5% going to be spent in D.C. Of course many on the hard right think that National Parks are just another form of SOCIALISM and certainly not mentioned as being one of the responsibilities of our Federal Government.