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When a Palisades fire survivor told viewers on Hannity that “not one home” has been rebuilt months after the infernos, it wasn’t just a line for TV — it was a gut‑punch to every American who still believes government exists to serve people, not parade bureaucratic priorities. Families who lost everything in the January firestorms are watching political promises turn into permit paperwork and months of delay. The anger is righteous; hardworking homeowners deserve action, not excuses.
The facts are stark and undeniable: the twin Palisades and Eaton fires that erupted on January 7 leveled entire neighborhoods, destroying well over 15,000 structures and displacing tens of thousands of residents across Los Angeles County. Communities that once hummed with Sunday barbecues and neighborhood baseball games were reduced to ash in a single, terrifying day, and the human toll is still being measured. This is not an abstract policy problem — it is a crisis of real people’s lives and livelihoods.
Instead of cutting red tape and empowering local builders to get families back under roofs, state and local leaders doubled down on confusing rules and half‑measures that slow reconstruction. California’s complex WUI fire codes, overlapping municipal ordinances, and a whirl of permits and inspection requirements are strangling the recovery timeline while contractors and homeowners wait for waivers and approvals. If government wants to be taken seriously as a partner in rebuilding, it should streamline the process and stop making recovery contingent on endless paperwork.
Worse, the same environmental dogma that drives bans on gas stoves and mandates on solar panels has been shoved into the middle of the rebuild debate — adding cost, complexity, and delay to people who just want to replace what was lost. Los Angeles even had to issue exemptions to its all‑electric mandates for fire victims so they could rebuild “as they were,” a tacit admission that green mandates are ill‑suited to disaster recovery and that ideology should never trump common sense. Policy experiments belong in Sacramento committees, not in the ruins of someone’s home.
Insurance payouts and federal relief have moved, but not fast enough to undo the damage of months without shelter, income interruption, and mounting bills. State figures show billions in claims and some payments have been processed, yet homeowners still face permit fees, inspections, and the nightmare of coordinating contractors while temporary housing costs skyrocket. Local officials have started to offer fee relief and one‑stop permitting centers, but those are bandaids — survivors need fast, decisive action to rebuild, not a slow bureaucratic handoff.
This moment should be a reckoning for the politicians who preach emergency compassion but practice regulatory paralysis. Governor and mayoral orders to review codes are fine for photo ops, but survivors want shovel‑ready solutions: streamlined permits, waived fees where appropriate, fast‑tracked inspections, and federal flexibility that sends money quickly without ideological strings. If our leaders truly care about communities, they will make rebuilding the priority and stop using disaster recovery as a vehicle for policy experiments.
America is a nation that rebuilds, not one that lingers in grief while paperwork piles up. Hardworking families in the Palisades deserve our sympathy, our donations, and most of all our demand that government do its one job — help people recover. Conservatives will stand with neighbors who choose to rebuild on their terms, fight to cut the red tape, and hold accountable any official who values ideology over getting people back in their homes. This is about dignity, responsibility, and the common‑sense belief that when disaster strikes, America answers with action — not delay.
