Every Thursday, SoCal Connected will be featuring your reactions, thoughts and commentary on the previous week’s show. We’re calling the segment "The Water Cooler" in homage to that gathering place in every workplace, office and school where people steal a few moments out from a busy day in order to discuss the most pressing question of our time - namely, what they watched on TV (or TiVo) last night.
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Our question this week:
Would YOU be willing to pay more for private fire protection? Is that fair to the people who can't afford it?
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Hell NO and it is absolutely a moronic notion in the first place! In this ever expanding time of corruption revealing itself at its true source (and that is greed)...we have more and more people thinking they're going to somehow better themselves by being selfish. This is the core of the Class Wars and it is only getting worse. Especially in California.
It is entirely ridiculous to consider offering better protection or services of any kind to those who can afford to pay for it, over those that have already paid and continue to do so in the form of ever expanding taxes.
No.
We all pay taxes, we all get the services and that is the way it is supposed to be. If you are rich, then you lose your house like anyone else should the Fire Dept not be able to get to your house in time. It is absurd to consider a private fire fighting crew when there will be the need to have that trained professional to help in the public domain. Think about it, if you are a firefighter and a wealthy home owner hires you to put out fire on his house, but the house down the street is burning too.......are you going to tell me you're not going to fight that one??!!!
What a f*cked up situation this would bring to the world. This is at the height of where the world is going... the rich will rule the world and the not so rich will suffer grave circumstance. Do you really want to contribute to a world like that?