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I'm so happy I'm a socialist. We either work together for common goals and accept our collective responsibilities to each other and the planet or we perish in a capitalist world of careless and excessive competition whose ultimate product is nuclear winter.
I wonder if we'll see movements in cities and states to get rid of public fire departments.
You know, all of the firemen I know are conservatives. They aren't federal employees. They aren't even state employees and some whole departments are volunteers.
I wonder if we'll see movements in cities and states to get rid of public fire departments.
FDs are locally funded. Not some scam to get us to send badrillions of dollars to some massive, centralized, inefficient, nanny-poo-poo federal government so that it can be redistributed in some clownish attept to redistribute the wealth and provide us $2 of service for every $20 of tax money we send.
Thanks, but no thanks. Local, grass roots...even state level...we'll take care of it ourselves.
I'm so happy I'm a socialist. We either work together for common goals and accept our collective responsibilities to each other and the planet or we perish in a capitalist world of careless and excessive competition whose ultimate product is nuclear winter.
Nope. Only the weak and unprepared would perish.
And yeah...all the firefighters, paramedics, and cops I know (and I know A LOT) are conservative.
I have found that most people are more than happy to come to that aid of others - willingly - just for the asking. This was recently shown by the events in Haiti - when people were asked for donations and boy did the American people react.
Again, ASK and we are glad to help. TELL US we "have" to help, or to put it another way - tell us we are being "FORCED" to help, well, therein is another problem - and it is the difference between Socialist and Conservatives. Socialist believe people should be forced - Conservatives believe in giving because - just because it is the right thing.
I wonder if we'll see movements in cities and states to get rid of public fire departments.
I seriously doubt it because all causes are not created equal. There will be no public option and even if there were, there would be an insufficient number of doctors willing to treat the people with the public option.
I some some problems with arguments here. For one, a heavily populized area and a rural area are far different in fire needs. For one, currently your firedepartment is non-profit. Meaning hypothetically, you pay a dollar for a dollar worth of service. There is no mark up like in the private system. Secondly, if you live in a great house next to a house that cought on fire, and that house could potentially burn your house down, who will come to put that out? What if they did not pay their bill that month? Lastly, being a firefighter is a very hard job to get into. The amount of people trying to be firefighters, far exceeds the amount of openings. so i am very confident that we already have highly compitent firefighters through our local government. If firestaions were ran by the federal government, I would be very concerned. As it is, it's just an expense that must be paid. Suck it up.
To those of you that said you pyut in your own hydrant and sprinklers, I hope the best for you.
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FDs are locally funded. Not some scam to get us to send badrillions of dollars to some massive, centralized, inefficient, nanny-poo-poo federal government so that it can be redistributed in some clownish attept to redistribute the wealth and provide us $2 of service for every $20 of tax money we send.
Thanks, but no thanks. Local, grass roots...even state level...we'll take care of it ourselves.
Are you so sure you're getting $2 worth of servive for your $2 on the local level?
Good luck with things like building an Interstate Highway system on the local level
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