“I read a story in the WSJ last year that there are half as many house fires as 30 years ago AND twice as many fire fighters.
Maybe we need to have a discussion about the level of protection that is desirable.”
A town in south suburban Chicago has paid on-call firefighters and has been doing very well providing efficient and up-to-date service this way for almost 100 years now and the town has grown 100 times as large.
Interesting.
The only real growth in union employment in 20 yrs has been public sector. Unionized firefighters are one of those “nobody can be against more safety” deals.
The ones in my town seem to spend most of their time walking around Wal-Mart filling up huge carts full of groceries while the quarter million dollar rig idles in the parking lot.