[IronJack]

Here's a "bold, new tactic:" Stop making laws! Stop trying to be all things to everyone! Stop robbing the many to give a few useless, counterproductive services to the few! Shut down your unions. Stop spending money you don't have and insisting it's The People who demand those additional services. They DON'T! Let the private sector do its job and you do yours.

Now THAT is innovative thinking!

[kearnyirish2]

Here in NJ the firetrucks from the neighboring town are 20 blocks away instead of 20 miles, and towns insist on paying firemen very well to sleep all day in the firehouses (we don’t have many fires, and the towns are on top of each other). Many of our paid departments were set up when large companies had factories that required the departments; those companies paid a large part of the bill for the firemen.

Forty years later the factories are closed down Superfund sites, and the firemen insist they are still necessary in the same numbers. Firemen I know tell me how important a paid department is, while they live in towns that have volunteer departments; apparently my children need paid firemen to sleep safely while their children don’t. I never supported “residency laws” until this nonsense came up.