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Volunteers getting together to serve the needs of their own community is thoroughly socialist, you are talking in circles.
by nacozarina 11mo ago
Volunteers getting together to serve the needs of their own community is thoroughly socialist, you are talking in circles.
- giantg2 11mo agoIs voluntary self-organized service socialist, communist, libertarian, or something else?
- raw_anon_1111 11mo agoHow well is that working out? Poor people trying to buy equipment made by people who expect to get paid? Guess how many fundraisers I heard about when I lived in Johns Creek GA - with a median income of $150K?
- _DeadFred_ 11mo agoWhat are you talking about? Johnsons Creek has a population of 80,000 people making it larger than 98% of US cities. I live in a town of less than 10,000 surrounded by a county larger than Rhode Island that has huge forest fires at least every decade since the end of the ice age. And we are the heavy populated county in our area.
- raw_anon_1111 11mo agoI am saying that we shouldn’t be okay with living in a country where people live in the middle of nowhere should have to do bake sales to make sure that their one fire truck remains up and running while John’s Creek can afford to pay their firefighters $80K a year and don’t have to do that When we have state and federal government. Would you be okay with a volunteer police force?
- raw_anon_1111 11mo agoYes a bunch of poor people in a rural area trying to raise money from a bunch of other poor people doesn’t seem to be working out too well… But in Johns Creek where I use to live where the median household income is $170k. Firefighters aren’t volunteering https://www.indeed.com/cmp/City-of-Johns-Creek/salaries/Firefighter/Johns-Creek-GA?period=YEARLY https://www.indeed.com/cmp/City-of-Johns-Creek/salaries/Fire... I am arguing that in the US as a nation, no firefighter should have to “volunteer” that’s where the state and federal government should step in. I’m more okay with taking my tax dollars as a person who makes a good living to help rural areas and I would vote for a politician to help them before they would.
- Gud 11mo agoIn Switzerland volunteer firefighting is common.
- raw_anon_1111 11mo agoSo is universal healthcare, free college education and a safety net. Are firefighters in Switzerland doing bake sells to pay for maintenance on their equipment like the people in the cities in the article or does the government do it?
- Gud 11mo ago"universal healthcare" is funded by insurance. No, they purchase their equipment funded by taxes.
- raw_anon_1111 11mo agoInsurance isn’t tied to your job in Switzerland and firefighters aren’t doing bake sales for equipment. That’s my point.
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