The Democrats in our town were working hard to get the fireworks cancelled this year.
They started out by saying by getting the Democrats on the County Freeholder Board to cut the subsidy that the county has been provding for the past twenty years.
Then they argued that there was not enough money, since the town was furloughing some employees, and that any money the town had should be spent on reducing the scope of the furlough.
After the furlough, the Democrats argued that spending money on the fireworks was inappropriate because it would hurt the feelings of the employees who had been furloughed.
Then the Democrats on the County Freeholder Board announced that they were going to fund the fireworks at a nearby town, which has a more “diverse” population and lower incomes, because they wanted to be “inclusive”.
After that town failed to match the funds, causing that display to fall through, the county finally came up with the same subsidy as in years past. The county money was lined up and the town money was lined up.
Then the Democrats played their final two cards.
First they said that the town was going to have to spend a boatload of money to put in temporary provisions to make the fireworks “accessible” to the handicapped. This was shot down in short order.
An, finally, they started whining about CO2 and global warming. By this time, it was too late to stop things from going forward. I got the feeling that they were just establishing a place-holder, for when they try to kill the fireworks for next year.
I don’t know why they had it in for the fireworks display. It is a time-honored tradition that everybody in town enjoys. But they played every card in their hand trying to get them cancelled, and I don’t think they are going to give up.
Anything and everything patriotic is targeted........ Let's move the targets to the proper locations....
It represents the best of America. It is a "tradition" therefore needs to be gutted. It reminds people of the war for Independence, which is patriotic, therefore must be eliminated.
If it is pro-America it needs to die so that the masses forget about the goodness of America and accept their new marxist overlords.
That's why.
Fight.
I think a lot it has to do with the fact that fireworks displays have been the traditional method of saluting America and all that she stands for, for almost two centuries. This is not the America they envision and want nothing to do with validating that America.
Simple truth is 4th of July fireworks displays are just too patriotic for many of today's Americans.