Equity Via the Los Angeles Fires

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Amidst all of the condemnation of Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass and the rest of California’s Democrat/DEI leadership, we need to give credit where credit is due.

They succeeded brilliantly in bringing equity to Los Angeles.

Now, billionaire movie stars enjoy the same living conditions as the rest of California’s homeless population.

Good job guys, you have achieved “equity”! Yay!

Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius
Posted on X, January 11, 2025

While this is worth a smile and probably a laugh, they have not really achieved equity.

At last count I read, there were only 11 people that achieved total equity. It has been a good try. However, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, and other communists set the bars for lifetime achievement awards much higher.

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9 thoughts on “Equity Via the Los Angeles Fires

  1. The few rich and famous who did lose their homes to the fires are still WAY better off than the rest of the fire victims. Many, perhaps most of them own more than one home.

    • Even if they don’t, they can live in a luxury hotel while they look for another house.

  2. Tsk, Tsk, Tsk.

    The term is unhoused people.

    I wouldn’t want the Thought Police to drag you away tonight for re-education.

  3. At last count I read, there were only 11 people that achieved total equity. It has been a good try.

    Maybe, but when they try to rebuild and get stymied by “progressive” building codes, permit requirements, and environmental restrictions — all of which they were grandfathered into before, but a new building must be compliant — it’s a safe bet those 11 people’s MILLIONS of social media followers will hear about it.

    It’s less about the 11 billionaires, and more about the social media reach of those 11 billionaires.

    I don’t think Adam Corolla is correct in that this event will turn California into a Red State — although I do expect it will shift somewhat — but it will do wonders to shine a spotlight on how crazy and impossible to comply with California’s more “mundane” laws and regulations really are.

  4. Ya, the problem is you can’t live in the top picture. As Bracken discussed. No water, no stores, no power. And no way to get those things back up and running. Least not as a survival situation.
    The bottom picture is a parasite. The top picture is a third-degree, 90% of the body burn. No way to survive.
    The real problem is that both show a population that was and is ill-equipped and uneducated. Refusing to examine and discuss the very real “what if’s” that happen from time to time.
    NC is somewhat different. Not many can anticipate 20′” of rain before a hurricane drops another 12″.
    But LA/So. Cal. burns every time the “witch winds” blow. Damn near on schedule.
    The only way those two pictures are equal is if you’re going to wait around for the government to fix things.
    At which point the bottom picture is your new Hilton Inn. Enjoy, next comes the rain.

  5. A major state funding problem in CA is that property- taxes are based on assessed value for tax purposes, which has risen much more slowly than real estate prices and inflation. When a person sells a property, the assessed value for tax purposes is set to its most recent sale price, then climbs very slowly again.

    According to CA law, if a person’s house burns down and they rebuild it within two year, it doesn’t reset the property tax basis to the current market value as it would with an intentional sale.

    Given the current regulatory environment, laws, massive scale of the rebuilding required, and already glacially slow permitting process, nobody but the very wealthy and politically connected has any hope at all of rebuilding within two years, meaning all the property assessed values will skyrocket, making them unaffordable for the old residents even if they were insured and manage to rebuild in 5-7 years.

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