Trump Was Right. California Bridge CRUMBLES Leaving Town Isolated for Weeks
While on the campaign trail, Donald Trump talked at length about our crumbling infrastructure and how we use our tax dollars to rebuild other countries, while our bridges and roads disintegrate.
Well, he was absolutely right.
A bridge crumbled in California and stranded hundreds of people who are now cut off from food and other supplies.
It’s ridiculous that this should happen in America in the year 2017.
It’s time to put Americans FIRST.
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From Mercury News
BIG SUR — Isolated residents of this breathtaking coastal retreat are surviving through stockpiled food, airlifts and cooperation after this wild winter’s storms have cut off Big Sur, buckling a bridge and burying the asphalt along America’s most picturesque highway.
One key bridge could be out of service for a year. Instead of the rich and famous dropping by for spa treatments at the Post Ranch and Ventana Inn, helicopters are dropping supplies to about 450 remaining residents of this glorious ZIP code. The community has turned to self-governing; there’s no law enforcement, elected officials, public services or tourists.
For three weeks, Big Sur has not only been cut off from California — it’s also been cut in half.
“Before, with other natural disasters, we were isolated as all one, together,” said Jon Knight, fire captain with the Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade, who lives south of the debilitated Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge, while his wife and young daughter have moved north, for her work. “The problem with this is that it’s divided the community right in half.”
South of the downed bridge are the fire station; post office; and Big Sur’s famous but now-shuttered retreats like Nepenthe restaurant, Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn, Post Ranch Inn, Ventana Inn and the Esalen Institute. To the north: schools, medical care, grocery stores, hardware stores, livestock supplies and almost all the locals’ homes.
Starting Friday, a steep and narrow half-mile footpath — for residents only — will open for 15 minutes at a time, three times a day, linking both sides of Big Sur’s divide.
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let the illegals pay for it,
Let only those Illegals and the People of Mexifornia Pay for the crumbling infrastructure they choose Speed Rail instead of paying for repairs of their infrastructure Let them pay Oh, and NO $ to Mexifornia for paying off their Debt or any money to them until they Dump the Illegals and Sanctuary Cities & Universities Enough Said
Make Jerry Brown pay for it out of his EMBEZZLED ACCOUNTS and BRIBERY TAKES – and take it out of his HIDE.
From watching videos of how corrupt and sneaky California government is adding city council members, Democrat Senators, La Raza, Lulac, liberal Hollywood, and others involved, even ask Mexico Nieto , Jorge Ramos bail them out to fix the Bridge and Dams. http://calwatchdog.com/2016/08/17/los-angeles-county-plagued-local-corruption/
View important video: Maybe reason the California bridge and dams are not important enough to fix. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-01/its-corruption-steroids-look-inside-el-monte-california-public-employee-pension
View: More examples http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/president-trump-should-not-bail-out-california-corruption-and-arrogance/
Will they stop you if you try to get across when the path is not opened? Like they did to the people in New Orleans? There was a clear way for all those people in the stadium in New Orleans to get to safety out of that place, but they were not allowed to leave and were even shot at (I believe) when they tried to leave the stadium. Is that what they will do to these people? The stadium thing was an excercise by the government to see if they could and for how long they could force the people to stay there…even some died there. I would hope this isn’t the case.
California wanted to separate from the rest of the Union ,let them deal their first crisis “God aprieta pero no ahorca”.
No one to blame but California Government by going a mile to taxpayers funds for Sanctuary Cities
Sanctuary Cities Received $27 Billion From Feds Each Year
1 in 5 city residents in Los Angeles are illegal immigrants
sanctuary cities
Protester holds a sign during an anti-Trump and anti-Gimenez rally in downtown Miami / AP
BY: Elizabeth Harrington
February 3, 2017 10:00 am
Sanctuary cities receive over $27 billion each year from the federal government, giving President Donald Trump significant leverage over cities such as New York and San Francisco to enforce immigration law, according to a new report.
OpenTheBooks.com identified 106 sanctuary cities in the United States in their oversight report, released Friday. In all, cities that ignore federal law by harboring illegal immigrants are receiving $27.741 billion in grants and direct payments in fiscal year 2016.
Twenty-two percent of the roughly 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States live in just 12 American cities, according to the report. Those cities, which include New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, received $15.983 billion in federal funds.
“On average, the cost of lost federal funding for a family of four residing in one of the 106 sanctuary cities is $1,810—or $454 per person,” OpenTheBooks.com said. “A total population of 46.2 million residents live in the 106 sanctuary cities according to census data.”
The cities receiving the highest amount of federal funding per capita, which “have the most to lose by maintaining their sanctuary status,” were Chicago and Washington, D.C., which received $5.3 billion and $2.09 billion, respectively.
The majority of federal funding went to local police and fire departments, schools, housing, and city services, via grants worth $21.5 billion. Another $4.23 billion in direct payments went towards housing, education, community development, and schools.
Los Angeles, where “fully 1 in 5 city residents are illegal entrants,” received $502.5 million from the federal government. The report noted that more than half of the illegal immigrants living in the country reside in a sanctuary city.
The 12 cities with the most illegal immigrants and the federal funding received last fiscal year are: New York ($7.6 billion), Chicago ($5.3 billion), Philadelphia ($590 million), San Francisco ($509 million), Los Angeles ($502 million), Seattle ($284 million), Providence ($235 million), Denver ($227 million), Austin ($207 million), Newark ($207 million), Portland ($174 million), and Minneapolis ($118 million).
Trump signed an executive order last Wednesday declaring jurisdictions that willfully refuse to comply with the federal government on enforcing immigration law will not be eligible to receive federal grants.
“Sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States willfully violate Federal law in an attempt to shield aliens from removal from the United States,” the executive order signed by Trump stated. “These jurisdictions have caused immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of our Republic.”
Responses have been mixed to the executive action, with some sanctuary cities willfully complying with Trump’s order to enforce immigration laws, and others showing defiance.
Miami-Dade mayor Carlos Gimenez announced his county would comply and begin detaining illegal immigrants who are wanted by the federal government. Though Miami-Dade officials do not consider the county a sanctuary, they “declined to hold some 100 inmates wanted by the feds” last year, the Miami Herald reported.
Detaining the illegal immigrants would have only cost $52,000, a “relative drop in the bucket for a county with a total annual budget of $7 billion,” the paper said. Now the county would lose millions because of Trump’s order. OpenTheBooks.com revealed Miami itself collected $29.7 million from the federal government in fiscal year 2016.
San Francisco, on the other hand, responded to the order by filing a lawsuit against the federal government. The city’s attorney called Trump’s action to enforce existing immigration law “unconstitutional” and “un-American.”
California lawmakers are considering declaring the entire state a sanctuary for illegal immigrants. One Democratic state senator said blocking local law enforcement from cooperating with the federal government on immigration enforcement would ensure that illegal immigrants who are “here for all the right reasons” can stay.
big red wow! I understand our president made an executive order but when will it come into effect? With everything going on, it’s hard to keep on top of the results.