RE: Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch as House Burns
October 6, 2010 at 10:46 pm
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2010 at 10:59 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
Now that I've seen this story circle around the news outlets already, I think it's safe to say that just about everyone agrees that firefighters should put out fires and these jerkass firefighters who didn't were indeed jerkasses.
I personally think a punch to the gut is in order to said firefighters (or a more suitable punishment) and that the entire event is evidence that privatizing important civil services is a horrible idea and these people were jerkasses for not stopping an easily stoppable fire.
As to this conversation regaring Laissaz-Faire Capitalism - I've said my peace on this in another thread, but I'll repeat it here for good measure because I have OCD like that:
Whether it takes years or decades - the end result is simply another kind of tyranny (I said Autocracy before, but actually more Aristrocracy, Corporatocracy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, or some combination thereof). Powerful corperate interests in this system can buy their own justice and the less power the government has to put roadblocks on them, the more they can simply ignore rules, regulations, safety, civil liberties of whose under their employ or under their sphere of influence, and just about whatever else they have an interest in getting away with.
I personally think a punch to the gut is in order to said firefighters (or a more suitable punishment) and that the entire event is evidence that privatizing important civil services is a horrible idea and these people were jerkasses for not stopping an easily stoppable fire.
As to this conversation regaring Laissaz-Faire Capitalism - I've said my peace on this in another thread, but I'll repeat it here for good measure because I have OCD like that:
Whether it takes years or decades - the end result is simply another kind of tyranny (I said Autocracy before, but actually more Aristrocracy, Corporatocracy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, or some combination thereof). Powerful corperate interests in this system can buy their own justice and the less power the government has to put roadblocks on them, the more they can simply ignore rules, regulations, safety, civil liberties of whose under their employ or under their sphere of influence, and just about whatever else they have an interest in getting away with.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
