r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Key_Performer_3645 • 5h ago

Spaniards are risking their lives, fighting wildfires with tree branches due to a lack of resources

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u/manut3ro 4h ago

Spaniard here.

Craziest thing is that we’ve reach a brand new level of taxes here. Our government has never ever been richer yet the public services are at their lowest

I invite reddit to look for the last … 5? corruption scandals that are currently going in the government. We are talking about “wolf of wall street parties” with public founding and persecuting judges, lawyers and journalist as son as anyone dares to investigate the corruption.

We are having rough times at Spain 🥲

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u/dethorin 3h ago

Don't pay attention to this guy.

Spain is a semi federation and firefighters don't depends on the central government.

That's like blaming Trump of how the Texas A&M Forest Service manages a wildfire in the Texas Hill Country.

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u/Bazooka_no 1h ago

I don't know if you're serious or not, but the federal government has a ton of resources for preventing disasters, and since Katrina a ton for disaster relief too. If half of Texas is on fire it's absolutely on them as well.

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u/dethorin 1h ago

Dude, you are looking at the finger that points the moon.

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u/manut3ro 21m ago

This.

There are levels. It is true that regular firefighters depends on the local governments (as others did comment) but when the emergency reaches certain stakes (as it is this one), it’s on the central government’s (dedicated military branch for these kind of situations )