“Emmitsburg Mayor Frank Davis voted for Donald Trump in hopes he would cut federal spending. Now Davis hopes those cuts don’t include the permanent cancellation of classes at the National Fire Academy, which is part of the town’s identity and helps drive its economy. Davis is also a chief at Emmitsburg’s firehouse, known as the Vigilant Hose Company.”
Trump killed the Fema training academy. It’s not coming back.
They voted to cut the FD in a neighboring town. Then they found out the fire response would jump from 8 minutes to 20+ and everyone in that area would have huge increases in home owners insurance rates.
They recalled the vote and upped the budget within a month. Fucking morons.
I mean, I can’t blame people for being exhausted with taxes and everything. Wages have been mostly stagnant for fifty years, while everything is getting relentlessly monetized and the cost of living keeps spiraling out of control. I get why people could feel less than excited about ratcheting up the cost of living more. I just wish people thought a little bit past that first step of “it’ll cost me more money right now?! No way!”
Anything more than 3 these days is a lost cause.
also insurance will likely stop insuring those areas too, the cost is too high. as with the idiots building in wildfire prone areas of california.
They want less building though. It’s a small wealthy New England town.
They think they’re immune to wildfires too, even though it’s all woods and the rate of drought has increased here too. Look at even New Jersey burning now.
I was driving on the parkway going towards jersey city about a week ago and the fire trucks were on both sides of the highway just spraying into the trees to keep it under control. Wild stuff.
Those snowflakes, don’t they know they have garden hoses…they should pull up their bootstraps and put out their own fires.
With water that they pumped themselves.
Is this…the consequences of my own actions?! Jeez that is stuoid.
They voted to cut the FD in a neighboring town. Then they found out the fire response would jump from 8 minutes to 20+ and everyone in that area would have huge increases in home owners insurance rates.
It is like these morons are constantly surprised each time they discover that public services cost money.
It is like these morons are constantly surprised each time they discover that public services cost money.
Even worse. They are too dumb to understand that essential services and workers are essential.
They’ve been raised on the idea that taxes are bad, and never put more thought into it than that. They view things like the fire department as good, so they can’t really be funded by those bad taxes, right? …Right?
This right there.
discover that public services cost money.
discover that public services costS THEM money.
it’s ok when it costs someone else money.
At the end of the day they’re just selfish.
My favorite example is the “Free Town Project”, where a bunch of libertarians from all over the country tried to take over a town in New Hampshire. After they managed to force through cuts to everything from firefighting to street lights, they had a single police officer left. And he couldn’t respond to any calls, because his cruiser was broken and they refused to pay for repairs so crime rose and sex offenders started moving there.
Then came the bears.
They didn’t pay for any sort of forest ranger and the cop couldn’t respond. So bears started getting close and some people spent years feeding them, while their neighbors walked around armed at all times and would shoot at bears on-sight. Which led to the first black bear on human attack in the state for over a century, where a woman was attacked inside her own home. And shortly after two other attacks happened in nearby towns. So the people went into the forest one night and allegedly shot and killed a dozen bears, which didn’t help. Some people suggested the city put bear protection on the trash cans, but it was not passed and was called “government overreach” by others.
So the freedom loving libertarians who moved to a town without zoning laws to live in improvised housing and roam free without laws, ended up having to put up big fences and walls around their homes to keep the bears out.
One of the big problems was that they cut trash service and eliminated regulations on trash disposal
Thanks for the information. Integrering reading up on this experiment. Wikipedia habe several good sources. Seems many of these people forget the “personal responsibility” part of their (deranged) ideology.
Libertarians in general are special breed of ignorance, selfishness, lies, and zero empathy. Qualities we all have to some degree, but when ramped up to 11, it’s a disaster.
Oh, they know it costs money. They fail to understand that many of these things are worth the money.
They are even more surprised that public services are I’ve if those things that actually saves money for a community. Like, spending on fire protection lowers insurance rates more than enough to offset the cost of the fire department…
I’m like, great, now do a basic social safety net and the costs of crime.
I had a house fire.
I see your point, but I have to tell you: in a wood structure the difference between 8 and 20 minutes won’t mean a lot for the structure. After a very small period of time, fire will have tasted most of the structure and it’s a gut-job.
And, from experience, it’s better as a gut. We languished in fleabag motels for 10 months with very little, and by the time they were done they could have rebuilt (1990) faster.
It really depends on what is inside the house more than what the house is made of. A kitchen fire will typically take much longer to spread than a bedroom fire for example, because one is fairly sparsely furnished, and requires the original ignition source provide enough energy to start pyrolising the structure itself, whereas the other just has to produce enough energy to start your bed/clothing/curtains on fire, starting a chain-reaction.
Instead of worrying about what your house is made from, which is far outside the scope of what most people can control anyway, invest in fire-retardent furnishings.
maybe people should stop building homes with wood. We invented bricks quite a while ago
Wooden structures are easier and cheaper, if you build out of brick, housing prices in the US will go up even more. Also, wood has some other advantages over bricks, such as being more resilient against earthquakes.
Just about all houses in Europe are made of brick.
They’re no more expensive than houses in the US.
Not saying which is better (frankly I don’t know), just pointing out that it really isn’t as straightforward as using brick rather than wood making US house prices go up - maybe in the past, but nowadays land prices, manpower costs and speculation are what drives the realestate prices.
(After all, brick is basically baked clay, so hardly expensive stuff)
Also as somebody else pointed out brick houses last significantly longer than wood houses.
I googled and it said most homes in Germany are timber framed. Almost all house in cities in the US are brick. Fires burn the stuff inside. The outer shell doesn’t matter.
How much of the prizes are really material costs vs. investor gains?
On a quick search, it seems wood houses are even more expensive to build in Europe (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352710222001012). This is probably not true in the US (which has a very different infrastructure). But if one takes resale value or long time reinvestments into account, I don’t think wood houses are that much cheaper, even in the US, as a percentage of the overall investment.
Many homes are made of brick. It doesn’t stop fires because the stuff inside isn’t all brick. For example if you ever heard of a fire in a city, those are all brick/stone.
Idk ive seen quiet a few house fires in wood log houses that all withstood it very well. The op of the comment doesn’t know what hes talking about.
I like sequestered carbon
And what happens to your house if your neighbor’s has been ablaze for 20 minutes vs 8? Fire Departments are also pretty the only ambulance service in a lot of rural areas as well
Man didn’t think fire fighters were maga. My outlook has completely changed
Lots are
Firefighters might do an important job, but they are still just people
Same as nurses and teachers. There are still plenty of stupid and ignorant ones out there
while I’m grateful they exist, and respect their work I’ve known a few firefighters in my time, and I wouldn’t exactly say they were the brightest of folks.
Yep
Me too
Theyre being fed lies
Convenient lies that they wouldn’t believe unless they didn’t want to
My father is a simpleton. He believes whatever suits his ignorance.
There are too many people like him
Let’s hear it for fire!
Make America greatly ablaze!
Davis says the administration is reviewing the academy’s operations, and he is hopeful it will restore classes. If not, he says, he’ll see the administration somewhat differently.
“It will change my outlook to say that they’re not being fair,”
Hahahahahahaha
“suckers and losers” can apply to his voters to besides vets. he also said “you voted on what i campaigned on”
These idiots really think that minorities are just living it up off food-stamps when it was them the whole time.
Reminds me of visiting the Libertarian subreddit around the time of the LA fires and the big brains thinking about how to make the fire departments private for profits. That midset is rather universal among republicans (even if not the fire departments, but they will have something that they think would be better as a corporation rather than government agency). Reporter should ask him how long he estimates that the market will signal to investors to pick up the slack.
People need to start asking them what the point of the profits are when the money isn’t going back into the respective region (municipal/whatever the states version of provincial is/federal).
Like great, yeah, the fire department is now private. But there are no profits because nobody can afford the services anymore. Insurance goes through the roof, neighborhoods burn down… Real great plan there.
People need to start asking them what the point of the profits are when the money isn’t going back into the respective region
At the end of the day these things are politically motivated. The “economics” are just academic smoke screen for it all.
Looking at their circles we can see them doing a W with the mission accomplished at news coming out of Argentina. Anyone that is motivated by truth seeking would just say its too soon to tell.
the fire department is now private
All fire departments used to be private. Go read how that went.
Well that is how the most successful man in real estate history did it, right?
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”
“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”
“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”
He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”
I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.
“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.
“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.
“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”
It didn’t seem like they did.
“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Joe Rogan posters.”
Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.
I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.
Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.
“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”
He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.
“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”
“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.
“Because I was afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”
I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.
“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”
He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me.
A classic.
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Thanks!
I read this every time it’s posted. It’s so great.
… Hahahahahaha… hahahahahaha. <wipes tears>
“They were supposed to cut the things that I didn’t think were important, even though other people thought they were important. They were not supposed to cut the things that I thought were important, even though other people didn’t think they were important.” Lmao!
Fucker probably wants kids to starve and go homeless.
There’s really not a lot to cut that doesn’t directly affect children or old people outside of the military.
No one will dare cut military because it’s the largest jobs program on the planet.
It’s not fair that I’m getting hurt when I voted to hurt THEM!!!
Someone asked “how can people vote for him, he’s objectively a terrible leader”. I replied “they didn’t vote for him to be a leader, they voted for him to be a weapon”. Cruelty is the point.
Turns out that you need to be a billionaire to be part of the real “in group”, otherwise you’re part of the “out group” even if you’re one of the useful idiots simping for the “in group”.
Hurricane season is gonna be interesting for the south. They voted to get their fema funding cut and blue states can only offer so much to bail them out. They’ve gotten themselves into quite the pickle.
Womp womp
look like this fatty needs to cut some weight.
Dont all americans?
Not all. I’m the fat fuck in my group of friends. Most of the rest are in really good shape for our age bracket.
These folks set their own house on fire to kill a spider.
A spider that was trying to get them healthcare and a better education and more rights as workers.
The problem is that people can’t eat empty words, and it doesn’t matter what a lawmaker says they support if they don’t do anything meaningful to make it reality.
When I was younger Democrats got me affordable healthcare when I had none.
My vote for them directly resulted in me getting affordable healthcare.
If you bothered to look up the Democrat’s voting history, they consistently vote in favor of legislation that benefits average Americans.
My vote for them directly resulted in me getting affordable healthcare.
I’m glad it worked out for you. It didn’t work out for most and this country is still known worldwide for its rate of medical bankruptcies.
Democrat’s voting history
The history doesn’t matter when you need action now and all they offer is sternly-worded letters.
Good job Frank Davis! You won! Now go away.
Tragically, this guy and others like him will never reflect on whether they contributed to harm. It’ll always be someone else’s fault, somehow.
Yeah, seen my share of people getting their faces blown off and basically rationalizing it away because it was Trump that did it. “If you think about it, it’s somehow Obama’s fault”. There’s probably a good many reasons for this, and I think one of the big ones is that nobody likes accepting that they got suckered.
bbbut FEMA had those caskets! The memes said so! Why are the leopards eating my faaaaaaccceee!
JOE BIDEN should have STOPPED this when He had the CHANCE!
-People who Voted for Trump!
They’re feeding from the same trough of misinformation as everyone else. The trough gets filled with the same scapegoats regardless of the circumstances.
So it will always be immigrants and woke leftists and terrorists and lazy liberal regulators ruining your prosperity. Because they’re the ones you’ve been trained to recognize as the source of all your problems.
Media only wants to give you what you want to hear and all you want to hear is “It was a blue haired brown skinned ISIS lesbian’s fault”
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Vigilant Hose?
Mmmokay
In every single one of these stories, the reporters need to be asking whether it was the racism or the fascism that appealed more to these voters. Inquiring minds want to know and we shouldn’t let them off the hook or worse, to cry for our sympathy.
I’m sure they’ll just give the old “Keeping immigrants out, jobs for Americans” crap line. No one ever believes they’re the bad guy.
So it is both!
My solution to that was to make them spell out DEI, dont let them hide behind an accronyem. Make them say every part of it, and see which part they wrinkle their noses at. Makes it much easier to tell which flavor of intolerant they are.
“Is DEI in the room with us right now?”
He looks like he’d get worn out just getting into the fire truck.
He probably thought he was bullet proof because what kind of idiot would cut that department?
It’s also a hometown fire department right next to a major emergency management area, which is also there because Camp David is nearby.
At least they still have FE…MA… Well they’re boned. So what’s for lunch?
Arson.
