@ETpro You need to get the whole country more nationally minded than individual states rights minded to even start thinking in terms of helping other states without thinking about the what the price should be. I know you are not saying ignore costs by thinking in terms of opportunity costs, but most American can’t handle that big of a calculation.
Were you on the recent Q where someone said some people are against abortion because they don’t want to have to pay for other peoples abortions? And, I called those people idiots (not realizeng the jelly who said it seemed to actually be inclined to this way of thinking? I said they were idiots, because the child costs way more than the abortion. The jelly then said, “how can it cost more?” I’m going to assume this same person might be inclined to not want to pay for an illegal immigrant to go to public schools, but doesn’t move that thinking over to we pay for all children to goto school. And, then in addition to society educating this child, if they are on social services the birth alone costs more than the abortion. Forget about food stamps and whatever else. I don’t think they have responded to me yet? I have to double check. I’m not steering this Q to the discussion of abortion, just giving it as an example of how politicans and the public can sway people on an issue with numbers to simply support whatever their goal is.
Plus, people don’t think things will go wrong in the future, they don’t want to adjust what they do now in case something bad could happen.
As far as the fires. I heard that if we let smaller fire happen as they naturally would occur where places were prone to fire, the larger ones would not happen as much. I don’t know if bringing water down to the dry areas would help prevent fires? You think they are going to water the forrests every day to prevent a possible fire?