Posted on 05/21/2010 4:18:48 AM PDT by mshoffner
Back in November, Huntington's Mayor Updike layed off six firefighters and closed the east end fire station because of a budget shortfall. Now these life savers will be back on the job due to the receiving a "Safer Grant" totaling over $800,000....
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Any idea what the national average of firefighters is for a town the size of Huntington In.?
Oh, and as a side note, personally I am terrible at spelling and punctuation so I should probably be the last one to criticize but then again I’m not a professional journalist.
According to the 2000 census Huntington has a population of about 18,000. I believe they have 3 fire stations which would be about right. Assuming a staffing level of say 5 persons at the central station per shift and 3 per shift at each of the other 2 stations then 41 personnel would be about right.
What happens next year?
Will the government handouts keep coming?
Do we just keep printing money to keep the union members working with these feelgood/vote getting tactics?
When does the US go bankrupt?
This is happening all over the nation! Who is going to end this insanity?
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