Officials blamed a wildfire that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week on a boy playing with matches, and said they would ask a prosecutor to consider the case. The boy admitted to sparking the fire on Oct. 21, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. Diane Hecht said Tuesday. Ferocious winds helped it quickly spread.
I’m waiting for someone to call for a ban on matches in homes, so that we can “protect” ourselves from having this ever happen again.
A growing number of state and local governments are considering big sales tax increases to pump up sluggish revenue, cut property taxes or pay for new programs. Again we have politicians, who can’t stop their tax and spend policies, while in the same breath expect us to sacrifice from which Americans are having little left to give.