Posted on 10/01/2004 7:18:09 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
Hans Thysebaard, a 34-year-old Dutch firefighter, spends his days cutting people loose from crashed cars, spraying down burning buildings and diving into frigid canals when cars veer off the road.
The work is physically demanding - broken knees and ankles are common, he said - and emotionally trying. He can't forget the day last March when a 21-year-old victim of a car accident died in his arms. "That's mentally very tough," he said.
Now, Thysebaard has joined the ranks of the angry in a country better known for its even-temperedness.
With a yellow badge proclaiming "The Netherlands can do better" pinned to his black fireman's jacket, he joined an antigovernment rally this week to protest plans to have firefighters retire at 65 rather than 55, the current practice.
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Sounds just like Kerry, doesn't it. "We can do better"
Sounds like a leading indicator of a country that isn't having enough children.
Holland? Who the hell cares about Holland.
We could remedy that situation, there's a lot of people coming over our Southern Borders we could send them there instead back to their native country </sarcasm>
Did you read the whole article? If you read into the guts of the story, it's more about what happens when a Socialist government tries to start taking away all the freebies?
A great example was the long-running grocery strike in Southern California last winter. The sticking point: they markets wanted the employees to pay PART of their insurance premiums and these union employees were almost appoplexic over that thought (even though they make very good union wages). I've never NOT had to pay a portion of my healthcare costs, so didn't feel much sympathy, since this contributes to the cost of groceries.
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I've always had to pay ALL of my health care costs, from after Tax dollars. The grocery store workers and other unions be damned.
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