Firefighter Layoffs video

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Interesting video about Firefighter staffing reductions and increased public risk from CNN.com:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/...irefighters.cnn

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Interesting video about Firefighter staffing reductions and increased public risk from CNN.com:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/...irefighters.cnn

I'm surprised that this video didn't generate more responses...

It's interesting. One of the things that I find most interesting is the President's response to the problem is to provide more grants for firefighters. Hmmm... let's tax everyone to provide a city the opportunity to hire a few firefighters for a few years and then it's up to them to sustain them. Why not cut taxes and reduce stupid federal programs that do nothing but support lobbyists and their benefactors. This would enable local municipalities to hire the numbers of emergency services workers that they need for the long term instead of these little stop-gap band-aid measures.

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One of the things that I find most interesting is the President's response to the problem is to provide more grants for firefighters. Hmmm... let's tax everyone to provide a city the opportunity to hire a few firefighters for a few years and then it's up to them to sustain them.

The lowest priority of these grants is to hire firefighters. The priority is to rehire those fire fighters who have been laid off, do to loss of local revenue. The hope is that by the time the crant is up, the economy will be back up and running. For 20+ years the federal government supported over 100 law enforcement positions in Westchester and no one had an issue with that, meanwhile only 8 career firefighters in westchester have ever been supported but at half the level of support that the law enforcement grants had.

Why not cut taxes and reduce stupid federal programs that do nothing but support lobbyists and their benefactors. This would enable local municipalities to hire the numbers of emergency services workers that they need for the long term instead of these little stop-gap band-aid measures.

Chris even if the federal government eliminated all federal taxes, local municipalites will not have additional money to hire anyone, unless of course they raise taxes to compensate for the drop in federal taxes.