Posted on 04/12/2015 3:58:03 PM PDT by AlmaKing
You've (or a family member) never bought a new car/truck in your life?
Are Firemen/Police Officer's suppose to only drive 20-30 year old POS?
Jealous. Envy. A true Liberal.
Ed
We have a huge county fire dept and a huge ambulance service. We also have a large city fire dept. They all run their tails off 24/7.
Kern and hall, I’m familiar with both. Used to hang out in the Tejon area a lot.
Living a dozen miles west of the World Trade Center, the 9/11 legacy for firemen went beyond the guts they showed on that day. The worst part of it was when the new mayor (Bloomberg) was asked when they were going to start hiring to replace the 343 firemen killed, and he said they weren’t going to replace them; the department was overstaffed and the city had already been contemplating closing many firehouses. A close second was the number of firemen who insisted on having a detachment at Ground Zero to escort remains of firemen found in the rubble; the mayor (Giuliani initially) opposed the plan, but was abused in the press by the firefighter parasites. They got their way, and the number of early retirements/disabilities jumped as one of the unhealthiest groups of people started complaining of 9/11-related ailments.
Here in the rustbelt paid fire departments are a holdover from the days when we manufactured things in factories with real dangers; now they are simply workfare wealth transfers to firemen who sleep away their shifts in the firehouse before heading off to second jobs. Most NJ departments aren’t paid (those that are paid are mainly in fallen cities that haven’t manufactured anything in decades); attempts to regionalize them (so they can fire eight fires per year instead of two or three) are stiffly resisted by the unions. Taxpayers simply vote with their feet and leave...
Here in NJ our civil servants live much better than the people forced to pay them; I don’t regard such resentment as envious or jealousy. They are bankrupting taxpayers, driving them out of the state, and they view us simply as involuntary donors to be bled dry. They are an incestuous bunch, because people in the private sector face such different realities that a huge gulf exists between the two.
Just like unassimilated minorities, consider all of these parasites as votes in the bag for the Dems each election; they are part of the 47% that the Dems start off with each election cycle.
“because the unions prevented FDNY from buying modern equipment, because it would replace union jobs.”
On top of that, it would leave less for salaries; here in NJ many of our schools are crumbling because while we pay 75% of our property taxes (among the highest in the nation) to schools, it goes straight to teachers’ pockets. Administrators make a killing as well, but there are far less of them and they aren’t unionized.
In my town the firemen are paid very well - and live in surrounding areas without paid firemen. At the same time, they’ll carry on about how a paid department is necessary to protect your family - while their families’ lives are guarded by “jolly vollies”.
All true!!!
Just as an aside illegal immigrants are the firefighters biggest friends. Their ignorance is what starts at least 75% of residential fires today in the NYC-NJ area. They do it via illegal gas hookups and overloading electrical circuits with space heaters as they try and duplicate the tropical climate they grew up in.
Check out this blog from time to time—— http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/
Every code is violated with impunity by immigrants especially illegal basement conversions
http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2009/11/fire-in-illegal-basement-apartment.html
My son says one of the reason the fire department in our town responds to medical emergencies is that the EMTs need help with increasingly common large people.
Also volunteer EMTs and firefighters often are about 60 years old and a lot are needed to get one job done
our fire department was able to leverage 9/11 into a new state of the art firehouse and turn our volunteer dept into a quasiprofessional organization.
I agree about the illegal apartments contributing to the fire problem, but there is usually an American that owns the property behind them. A neighboring town here conducted thorough inspections (checking every room of the homes) to find these illegal apartments; somehow the population was stagnant but the schools were bursting at the seams (anchor babies and such; many of the students weren’t Americans).
The space heaters are just a cheap solution to basements that aren’t connected to the central heating systems. There was a fire a few years back in one of the fairly wealthy towns on the NJ side of the Hudson River, and it turned out the basement had been rented out as rooms to single people from a few different countries. No plan for escape from a fire; a few of them died. In NYC a suit was brought against a property owner who did this when a firemen died in a maze of illegal modifications; he couldn’t get out (IIRC, another jumped several floors and lived, but was seriously hurt).
The better towns force the owner to remove the illegal apartments; in my county they are more likely to allow them and just increase the taxes on the homes. It really blights a neighborhood...
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