[GonzoGOP]

The mortgage industry takes your view of things. That's why their foreclosing on people who don't even have mortgages.

And they should have been more ruthless. The banks tried to be a public service when they should have been run as a business. But then nobody expects to like a banker. Kids don't say I want to be a banker when I grow up. And nobody lets the repo man ride at the front of the parade.

Back to my point, the firemen need to decide if they are a business or a public service. They want the respect of a public service, but then want to play the hard nose money game of a business. I Don't care either way, but they need to decide what they are. If you are a business fine, everyone knows where they stand. But don't expect any special privileges or respect.

And please understand the guy who didn't pay the $75 was an idiot of almost impossible proportions. I have no sympathy for that guy in the least.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

And please understand the guy who didn't pay the $75 was an idiot of almost impossible proportions. I have no sympathy for that guy in the least.

Yes, you do.

You think the fire should have been put out.

You think it's a matter of being "nice."

That attitude is what gave us the helpless welfare class, and a Social Security "Trust Fund" filled with worthless IOUs.

You know that big pension you think you have coming?

Ain't gonna happen, because the federal government decided it was better to be "nice" than have a solvent currency.

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Back to my point, the firemen need to decide if they are a business or a public service.

In this case they are a business and behaved as such