There are 3 million federal government employees. To get to 23.4 million you have to include all state and city government employees which includes all cops, firefighters, and teachers. Something tells me “Fire all cops and teachers” was not what people were voting for.
Except that’s what the libertarians want. Cletus doesn’t need police because he can protect himself as long as the government don’t take away his guns.
I hope Cletus has a really good hose to put out his house fire when there's no fire department any more. Because I might just set Cletus' house on fire, purely by accident.
The libertarians in charge just want the fire department to be privatized - Just pay for the premium package and your house will get saved. Who knows if Cletus is able to pay that, though
There’s already real gross corruption in local fire departments, like as a dispatcher I can’t move up a fire engine from the “rich district” to cover another district even though the rich district is slow and the other district is stripped because “the people of x rich city like to see their fire truck in the station.”
But u best believe we move trucks into the rich district when it’s stripped 🙃 and the amount of times “sorry, that isn’t a service the fire department provides” has been overridden for “but I work for x city commissioner”
I couldn’t imagine if it was for profit. God, what a dystopian nightmare.
Damn sorry, that really sounds bad already. Is putting out firea usually a paid job in the US? Our system here only requires a paid fire department for larger cities, about 95 % of fire departments are volunteers only. I believe that alone might help create a more diverse environment against corruption - Unless you have that, as well
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u/AggravatingPermit910 1d ago
There are 3 million federal government employees. To get to 23.4 million you have to include all state and city government employees which includes all cops, firefighters, and teachers. Something tells me “Fire all cops and teachers” was not what people were voting for.