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Maga voted for cuts and gets cut.
(lemmy.world)
"Emmitsburg Mayor Frank Davis voted for Donald Trump in hopes he would cut federal spending. Now Davis hopes those cuts don't include the permanent cancellation of classes at the National Fire Academy, which is part of the town's identity and helps drive its economy. Davis is also a chief at Emmitsburg's firehouse, known as the Vigilant Hose Company."
Trump killed the Fema training academy. It's not coming back.
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They voted to cut the FD in a neighboring town. Then they found out the fire response would jump from ~~8 minutes to 20+~~ nearly triple and everyone in that area would have huge increases in home owners insurance rates.
They recalled the vote and upped the budget within a month. Fucking morons.
Edit: I was off on the response times but it was moving the main department at least 6 miles farther from the closest houses to the department they wanted to close.
It is like these morons are constantly surprised each time they discover that public services cost money.
They've been raised on the idea that taxes are bad, and never put more thought into it than that. They view things like the fire department as good, so they can't really be funded by those bad taxes, right? ...Right?
This right there.