[sheana]

They wanted all that easy overtime.

What a juvenile thing to say from a person who knows absolutely nothing about firefighters.

[HitmanLV]

I know enough, and my comments were directed at the unions vs Giulliani post earlier in the thread. The NYPD wanted the easy overtime to tend to Ground Zero. There was 24 hour cleanup at the site (a site that still remains undeveloped - NY dropped the ball there) and plenty of people were making plenty of money during that ambitious cleanup.

And they earned it. But the NYPD largely wanted a piece of that. These guys do a tough job but people need to be realistic: they aren't saints and they shouldn't get everything they ask for.