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Used to be a libertarian? Still a right winger, though. Obama rewrote the bankruptcy laws to help a union? Speaking of union's, firefighters are a problem now?

Used to be a libertarian? Still a right winger, though. Obama rewrote the bankruptcy laws to help a union? Speaking of union's, firefighters are a problem now? Since when? Ted Kennedy the murderer. The serfs are being disarmed? How about "cabal of (most) politicians and (some) CEOs"...because (to the right wing mind) it's more likely that politicians are pulling the strings than business people...they make are jerbs! Plus one drudge point for saying that the Google guys are hypocrites (shocking) that voted for Obama. RSA, a company that makes money, took money from a customer to do something that benefited the customer? That doesn't rise to the level of tragedy as the problems in the justice system. Let's see the NSA is the Stasi...he also mentioned pre-revolutionary France...the right wing mind loves dreaming that we might have a revolution...and then all the "serfs" that haven't been "disarmed" will throw off their shitty jobs and fight fer freedum! Here's a gem: "to every politician who goes on moral crusades while barebacking prostitutes and money laundering the payments, to every teacher who retired at age 60 on 80% salary, " Hypocritical politicians who commit crimes are like retired teachers? Fuck you. You wormy douchebag.

mcphage 13y ago
> Hypocritical politicians who commit crimes are like retired teachers? Fuck you. You wormy douchebag. AMEN
anonymoushn 13y ago
Hypocritical politicians who commit crimes are like retired teachers? Fuck you. You wormy douchebag. Pension spiking is theft. Thieves are like thieves.
bzbarsky 13y ago
> firefighters are a problem now? To some extent, yes. The number of fires that need responding to is down significantly (almost 2x over the last 3 decades). Over the same time, number of firefighters is _not_ down significantly; in fact it's up by a factor of 1.4 or so. So now they're partially a solution looking for a problem (e.g. doing medical emergency first response using fire trucks, which is just daft). http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/firefighters-dont-fight-fires.html http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/fir... has some graphs, links to data, etc that you may want to look at. This is not even entirely a US-specific problem; Toronto is having similar issues; see http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/08/06/toronto_paramedics_and_firefighters_at_odds_over_medical_calls.html http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/08/06/toronto_paramedic...

mcphage 13y ago

> Hypocritical politicians who commit crimes are like retired teachers? Fuck you. You wormy douchebag. AMEN

anonymoushn 13y ago

Hypocritical politicians who commit crimes are like retired teachers? Fuck you. You wormy douchebag. Pension spiking is theft. Thieves are like thieves.

bzbarsky 13y ago

> firefighters are a problem now? To some extent, yes. The number of fires that need responding to is down significantly (almost 2x over the last 3 decades). Over the same time, number of firefighters is _not_ down significantly; in fact it's up by a factor of 1.4 or so. So now they're partially a solution looking for a problem (e.g. doing medical emergency first response using fire trucks, which is just daft). http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/firefighters-dont-fight-fires.html http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/fir... has some graphs, links to data, etc that you may want to look at. This is not even entirely a US-specific problem; Toronto is having similar issues; see http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/08/06/toronto_paramedics_and_firefighters_at_odds_over_medical_calls.html http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/08/06/toronto_paramedic...