[rlmorel]

"...Anyone here remember a policeman knocking on your door and saying “thank you” for paying a higher property tax and saving his job, or a firetruck driving down the street with sirens blazing and firefighters waving to our neighbors, or teachers sending home one more note with kids saying “thank you” to the community for the raise? I don’t, but they’ll be the first to leave flyers in your mailbox telling us how hellacious things will get if we don’t give them more of our money..."

Well put, bobcopar...

Someone sent me a link a while back, I am pretty sure it was before the whole Wisconsin debacle began playing out: I am Hero and Deserve

When I first saw it, it didn't have as great effect on me as it did when I just dug it up and watched it now. Nothing like having the truth of history shoved in your face!

What I found both disturbing and true was the not so veiled type of union threat "Well, you better hope you don't have a fire at your house, because we aren't even going to get out of bed..."

I have actually heard of variants of this from each unionized area making these types of veiled threats, nurses, policemen, teachers, you name it.

Typical.

This is NOT to say there are not good, honorable, dedicated hardworking people in these professions, it is just that the vocal parts interacting with those of us who pay their wages hear this rhetoric more often than we would comfortably like to.

[goat granny]

When you live in *little town USA* your firemen and women are all volunteers. They respond with taxpayers giving them money. Less than a minute after having the alarm go off in town, you hear them on the road with their red lights flashing. The towns pay for the upkeep of the trucks..