Trump says other countries do better job of 'cleaning the floors' of the forest

[left-of-center2012]

So, Trump said all we have to do to help prevent fires like we are seeing in California is to clean the forest "floor".
I guess he means the ground around trees in our forests.

How many people would we need to hire to do this annually, as leaves, etc accumulate all the time?

"In 2012, forest land comprised 766 million acres, or 33 percent of the total land area of the United States."

https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/library/brochures/docs/2012/ForestFacts_1952-2012_English.pdf

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Maybe the troops guarding the border could be given rakes and vacuum cleaners

and then go clean up all those forests.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. With future mudslides and fires only half extinguished this is serious; w/ CNN video and CA replies:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211444791#post3

[msongs]

2. california brush fires get only small spread from leaves on the floor with 60mph winds nt

[wcmagumba]

3. Mr. very good brain could become the next FDR...

start the CLC (civilian leaf corp) and employee everyone while saving
the forests and people...his name will live in infamy, of that I have
no doubt...

[guillaumeb]

4. Make Mexico pay for it. eom

[brush]

5. I don't know how much more of the stupidity I can take...

I'm climbing out on the ledge...

[wasupaloopa]

6. The fires are not in forests with trees.

They are brush fires that move into cities.

[Ohiogal]

7. He is such an idiot

Says bullshit like this every minute like he is an expert on everything

Doesn't he know we all laugh at how ridiculous he sounds?

[thucythucy]

9. Do they use Spic'n'Span?

[smirkymonkey]

10. The fires are not spreading because of the forest floors.

They are jumping from treetop to treetop because the forests are so parched from lack of rain and from high winds. He is such an idiot!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. But, but, the president of Finland told him they didn't have fires because they rake their forests!

[TrogL]

12. I used to work at a Dept of Forestry warehouse

No rakes in stock