WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.620 The California to Florida disasters. 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:04.900 I know that there's a big contrast here 00:00:04.900 --> 00:00:06.460 between what we're seeing in California. 00:00:06.800 --> 00:00:08.860 Why is it that Florida is able to have 00:00:08.860 --> 00:00:11.240 such efficient rapid response to hurricanes? 00:00:11.760 --> 00:00:14.280 And California seems it can't get out of its way 00:00:14.280 --> 00:00:16.700 when it comes to dealing with natural disasters. 00:00:18.080 --> 00:00:19.040 Here's the difference. 00:00:19.780 --> 00:00:23.020 In Florida, we know that it's our responsibility 00:00:23.020 --> 00:00:24.020 to take the lead. 00:00:24.380 --> 00:00:29.500 So as an example, I had wildfires when I was a governor, I had four hurricanes, and we didn't say, 00:00:29.560 --> 00:00:33.500 oh, let's wait and see if the federal government shows up and see if they'll help us solve this 00:00:33.500 --> 00:00:38.140 problem. We went and solved the problem on our own, realizing the federal government 00:00:38.140 --> 00:00:42.800 can provide some financial resources, but they're not going to lead this, they're not going to lead 00:00:42.800 --> 00:00:47.480 us out of this problem. So if you look at North Carolina and look at California, their governors 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:51.540 have thought, oh, the federal government's going to do all this, we don't have to do it. 00:00:53.680 --> 00:00:57.320 You look at California, I don't know why they have wildfires. 00:00:57.600 --> 00:00:59.100 One, they didn't have enough water. 00:00:59.300 --> 00:01:00.400 Who's responsible is that? 00:01:00.820 --> 00:01:01.140 The governors. 00:01:01.760 --> 00:01:04.120 Number two, the reservoirs were not full. 00:01:04.260 --> 00:01:05.060 Who's responsible is that? 00:01:05.240 --> 00:01:06.260 The governor, right? 00:01:06.800 --> 00:01:08.740 So what you have to do is one, 00:01:08.900 --> 00:01:10.500 you have to take responsibility to prevent it. 00:01:10.580 --> 00:01:13.620 So in Florida, we've had some small wildfires, 00:01:13.940 --> 00:01:16.680 but we actually do prescribed burning in our forests. 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:22.300 to make sure we don't have a situation where we can get wildfires and then on top 00:01:22.300 --> 00:01:26.200 of that when we do, which he had twice down in the Everglades when I was 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:31.160 governor, we went and put them out quickly. We put all resources, state and 00:01:31.160 --> 00:01:34.040 local resources. We didn't wait for the federal government to show up. In 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:37.460 California they think somebody else is going to solve their problems. No one's 00:01:37.460 --> 00:01:40.380 solving your problem. You've got to do this yourself. The federal government can 00:01:40.380 --> 00:01:44.000 provide you some financial resources but they don't have a whole bunch of first 00:01:48.030 --> 00:01:52.450 I think that that is that is so well put what is your reaction the president who 00:01:52.450 --> 00:01:56.530 wants to kind of change up FEMA who wants to change the way that FEMA has 00:01:56.530 --> 00:02:00.050 done is someone who's dealt with FEMA and been in the weeds what is the better 00:02:00.050 --> 00:02:02.970 way that we could run the federal emergency management authority or 00:02:02.970 --> 00:02:03.290 agency 00:02:04.060 --> 00:02:09.520 Well, number one, we need to make sure every understands the first responsibility is local 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:15.340 Then state and then the federal government can provide some resources. So I'll give you an example 00:02:15.340 --> 00:02:21.880 I when I became governor, I had no idea why it was like this the federal government paid 75% and even more 00:02:21.880 --> 00:02:26.760 For a debris pickup in our state when we had a hurricane. I never understood why they did that but they did 00:02:27.440 --> 00:02:31.660 So but what there was a lot without allowed is a whole bunch of fraud 00:02:31.950 --> 00:02:36.130 So I actually finally took me six years. I finally got a bill to crack down on that 00:02:36.130 --> 00:02:41.290 I finally got it passed in December because there was big insolence fraud. I probably saved the federal government 00:02:41.640 --> 00:02:45.940 over a billion dollars of fraud just in one hurricane, Hurricane Irma. 00:02:46.480 --> 00:02:48.660 So you could take that for each piece of this. 00:02:49.140 --> 00:02:53.720 The states need to be responsible. The local governments need to be 00:02:53.720 --> 00:02:56.320 responsible. Quit relying on the federal government to solve all your 00:02:56.320 --> 00:02:58.800 problem. Otherwise, why do we have governors? Why do we have mayors? 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:01.560 So I think what President Trump's in a position to say, wait a minute, 00:03:04.440 --> 00:03:09.080 They can do some things, but they can't do everything, and the federal government is just not a piggy bank 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.960 for everything that the local or state government wants done. 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:14.940 He knows we have $36 trillion for the debt. 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:16.880 We're running $2 trillion deficits. 00:03:17.200 --> 00:03:21.880 We've got to get our fiscal house in order, and part of it is stop wasting money. 00:03:22.440 --> 00:03:27.720 So there's a better way to do, you know, after disasters, a better way for the federal government to be a partner. 00:03:31.500 --> 00:03:35.500 in Baltimore. The federal government was paying 100% of that. There was a bridge built at the 00:03:35.500 --> 00:03:39.300 exact same time in Florida. Why don't we have the problem? Because when we built the bridge, 00:03:39.440 --> 00:03:44.160 we built barriers to if a ship hit the hit the edge, it didn't knock down the whole bridge. 00:03:44.900 --> 00:03:48.300 But they in in Baltimore, they didn't want to do that for some reason. And now the federal 00:03:48.300 --> 00:03:53.200 government somehow became you, you're the taxpayer in any other state, you're now responsible for that 00:03:54.800 --> 00:04:00.340 100% building that bridge in Baltimore. That makes no sense to the rest of the country. 00:04:00.600 --> 00:04:04.840 Why isn't Baltimore responsible first? Why isn't Maryland responsible first? 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:08.900 What a wise point.