Monday, December 1, 2008

Who's your fire prevention nanny?

While we are looking for ways to cut government spending, let's consider at least lowering the salaries and outrageous public employee benefits of those on the taxpayers' dime whose job it is to tell us not to set ourselves on fire:

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3 comments:

Amanda said...

I don't believe that people need to be told how to not set themselves on fire. Apparently the government believes us all to be ignorant. This is a giant waste of money!

Hempy said...

Evidently it's too much for BPB to advocate pardoning all non-violent marijuana users. That costs the state $270 million annually, which would pretty much balance the state's budget.

Southern Lady, if we knew how not to set ourselves on fire, why bother to have fire departments? You can always hook up your garden hose and put out your own fire.

If your Christmas lighting happened to catch on fire, you'd be the first to scream, "Why doesn't the government provide fire service!!" And god forbid that your taxes go to install and maintain fire hydrants--or pay a fire marshall, a fire chief, firefighters--it's such "a giant waste of money!"

Perhaps you might want to start a petition to have fire hydrants removed from your neighborhood and disband the fire department, get rid of the fire marshall, fire chief and firefighters. It such "a giant waste of money!"

Amanda said...

Hempy, I was not stating that the fire departments and such were a giant waste of money. The giant waste of money is the government spending money on statements to the public on how to not set ourselves on fire.