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Tierra Monte, NM — In April of this year, the US government started the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s history. The fires were set by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) — ironically to reduce wildfire risk — but having the opposite of their intended effect. Thanks to several acts of incompetence, neglect, and ignorance, the controlled burn morphed into a catastrophic blaze that engulfed over 530 square miles of mostly privately owned forests and meadows, while destroying 432 homes as well. Now, after burning down their homes and land, the state is demanding the victims pay for the damage themselves — despite previous reassurances that they would be given support.
“Today I’m announcing the federal government’s covering 100% of the cost,” President Joe Biden said after he visited the state in June. But, like so many words uttered from the mounts of US presidents, that was not true.
FEMA has so far granted $4.2 million to the 1,164 fire survivors, marking an average payout of $3,600. To one of the hundreds of folks who lost their home, this is a kick in the teeth.
According to a recent report in Reuters, cost-sharing statutes on federal relief programs are preventing the victims from receiving the help they need. Instead of the promised 100% of the cost, victims of the government’s seeming act of arson were told they are on the hook for 25% of the total cost, as per the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) guidelines.
Daniel Encinias and his wife Lori were victims of the government blaze and are now finding out that they are on the hook for the damage.
“Why the hell am I going to pay anything when I didn’t cause this damn fire?” Encinias told Reuters.
Naturally, as Reuters reports, these victims can’t simply shell out the millions of dollars it will take to repair the damages caused by the government’s fire.
Many fire-hit families cannot afford sharing at least 25% of costs on the USDA’s Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP)which offers relief such as stabilization of burn areas prone to flash flooding, according to New Mexico State Forester Laura McCarthy. Residents sometimes own large areas of land passed down from 1800s Spanish-Mexican land grants while working blue-collar jobs.
“They’re really struggling,” said McCarthy.
Residents are now putting their hopes into a congressional bill that will fix the cost sharing nonsense but given the extremely slow turning wheels of Congress, this could be months or even years out.
Another victim, Leger Fernandez told Reuters that he is going straight to the USDA and is negotiating a waiver with the NRCS to drop the cost sharing provision.
“The federal government burns your house down so they are responsible in my mind to pay 100% of the cost of rebuilding,” Fernandez said.
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“If you don’t have insurance you’re pretty much on your own,” said Kenny Zamora, 59, another victim, who like Encinias is considering joining a massive civil case that may be filed against the USFS.
For now, hundreds of families are living in tents and campers next to the ashes of their homes, hoping that something changes. But if history is any indicator, they will likely be waiting a very, very long time.
We’ve seen similar scenarios unfold within the police state when SWAT teams destroy the homes of innocent people and then tell them they are on the hook for the bill. In July of 2020, Vicki Baker, 75, was told she had to cover the $50,000 in damages to her home after police literally blew it up looking for a suspect. It would take her two years to finally get her money back.
The late Harry Edson Browne was a libertarian writer, public speaker and the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president in 1996 and 2000. Before he died in 2006, Browne made a statement that perfectly summed up this situation:
“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.’”
Article cross-posted from The Free Thought Project.
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These folks are the true arsonists. Incompetence, personified.
Claw Back the WASTEFUL Ukraine MONEY to Pay for it ! ! !
One would think their collective insurance companies would sue the US government for this negligence but like most big business they are owned by the government regulators.
What a joke of a fraud and we the people the punched line.
NM votes BLUE.
NM REAPS what it SOWS!!!
NM is Biden Country.
The US government causes ALL the fires in California. It’s 100 percent deliberate order by their globalist masters. Hell is too good a place for these politicians. THey are evil beyond descripion and corrupt to the core
here is what is really happening dont believe me now but when the next event happens repent and walk with jesus
we are currently going into the 7th bowl of gods wrath.
the last event in history according to revelations to happen was the fall of the Ottoman empire and the invasion of Gog and Magog which people get confused as russia, its not russsia, its the turkish kazar fake juu-ewws who originally originate from the kingdom of kazaria so they are called the kings of the east, bible schoalrs knew hundreds of years ago even before the invasion they were gog and magog. so after ww2 loord roth child gog filled palestine with fake kazar juuu-eewws (magog)
the next event is the 7th bowl of gods wrath, an economic collapse and some kind of war from the sky that bribgs plague with it i think nuclear personally
Rev 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
Rev 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Rev 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Rev 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Rev 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
The Seventh Bowl
we are here
Rev 16:17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
Rev 16:18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
Rev 16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Rev 16:20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
Rev 16:21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
pretty sure the three unclean spirits are communism, nazism and political ziiiio0nism
Biden and his administration are no saviors. You must sue the federal government for billions. It would be better to form a Class Action Law Suit to give more clout to the plaintiffs who have lost everything. Force the government to pay to have every home rebuilt wherever the plaintiffs want their new home built, PERIOD !!!
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Yet another reason to massively and aggressively downsize government.
The monetary value of what we are supposedly lending to Ukraine is chump change compared to the many trillions wasted on covid19.
The forests DO need periodic fires to remain healthy. The problem is that the policy of USFS and state forest services has been “stop any burning, all the time, for any reason” for decades now.
And then with all the dead and fallen trees, and AT PEAK DRY for the area….they get all “hey, we have to have fires for healthy forests…lets start one now”.
And they did it without planning for the extra dry conditions and the guaranteed-to-get-out-of-control-as-a-result burns by setting up firebreaks and applying retardant…
True, but when you add it all up…Ukraine, CHIP, BBB (Bend backwards bill)…its a lot more than chump change.
I uderstand the victims problem but at the same time don’t see why uninvolved taxpayers have an obligation.Perhaps the wizards that planned the fire should bear the burden.
this is how the USFS rolls, start a fire when it’s dry and windy
I’ll bet most of them have some sort of forestry degree
All I can say is, remember…..you wanted this! Vote Trump!
Systematically clean the forest of dead trees and scrub that is not necessary for native
wildlife….Mulch the cuttings as soil additives in nearby ag areas….
AMEN BRUTHA!!!!
take the money from the covid empire and give it back to the ppl where it belongs..its ours anyway..