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ParticipantThey probably get paid well for working lots of overtime, I don’t think the base salaries are that high. But a lot of them do bring home a good amount of dough. It is probably hard to vote to cut pay for firefighters or cops if you are on the city council so that might be how they’ve gotten so well paid. And they have unions to help organize and petition for more benefits and pay so that helps them too. Of course it is always politically popular to give police and firefighters raises.
Do you want to know who really keeps you safe? It’s the people keeping your fresh water coming into your house and the waste water leaving it. Also the sanitation department for picking up the trash, and the truckers and grocery workers that make sure you have food to eat. Most of us would survive with no police or firefighters but without any of that other unglamorous stuff we’d all be dying of starvation or cholera.
ParticipantThey probably get paid well for working lots of overtime, I don’t think the base salaries are that high. But a lot of them do bring home a good amount of dough. It is probably hard to vote to cut pay for firefighters or cops if you are on the city council so that might be how they’ve gotten so well paid. And they have unions to help organize and petition for more benefits and pay so that helps them too. Of course it is always politically popular to give police and firefighters raises.
Do you want to know who really keeps you safe? It’s the people keeping your fresh water coming into your house and the waste water leaving it. Also the sanitation department for picking up the trash, and the truckers and grocery workers that make sure you have food to eat. Most of us would survive with no police or firefighters but without any of that other unglamorous stuff we’d all be dying of starvation or cholera.
ParticipantThey probably get paid well for working lots of overtime, I don’t think the base salaries are that high. But a lot of them do bring home a good amount of dough. It is probably hard to vote to cut pay for firefighters or cops if you are on the city council so that might be how they’ve gotten so well paid. And they have unions to help organize and petition for more benefits and pay so that helps them too. Of course it is always politically popular to give police and firefighters raises.
Do you want to know who really keeps you safe? It’s the people keeping your fresh water coming into your house and the waste water leaving it. Also the sanitation department for picking up the trash, and the truckers and grocery workers that make sure you have food to eat. Most of us would survive with no police or firefighters but without any of that other unglamorous stuff we’d all be dying of starvation or cholera.
ParticipantThey probably get paid well for working lots of overtime, I don’t think the base salaries are that high. But a lot of them do bring home a good amount of dough. It is probably hard to vote to cut pay for firefighters or cops if you are on the city council so that might be how they’ve gotten so well paid. And they have unions to help organize and petition for more benefits and pay so that helps them too. Of course it is always politically popular to give police and firefighters raises.
Do you want to know who really keeps you safe? It’s the people keeping your fresh water coming into your house and the waste water leaving it. Also the sanitation department for picking up the trash, and the truckers and grocery workers that make sure you have food to eat. Most of us would survive with no police or firefighters but without any of that other unglamorous stuff we’d all be dying of starvation or cholera.
ParticipantThat is truly amazing. What would the yearly mortgage on $500K be assuming $100K down? Something like $30K? And you get to use it for a little more than a month a year? You could spend that much time in a luxury hotel in someplace with warm blue water (like Hawaii or the mediterranean) for less than that AND keep your down payment. Or you could blow your down payment, spend more and enjoy your month dodging the bums and tweekers here in SD and swimming in the cold water. Totally stupid.
ParticipantThat is truly amazing. What would the yearly mortgage on $500K be assuming $100K down? Something like $30K? And you get to use it for a little more than a month a year? You could spend that much time in a luxury hotel in someplace with warm blue water (like Hawaii or the mediterranean) for less than that AND keep your down payment. Or you could blow your down payment, spend more and enjoy your month dodging the bums and tweekers here in SD and swimming in the cold water. Totally stupid.
ParticipantThat is truly amazing. What would the yearly mortgage on $500K be assuming $100K down? Something like $30K? And you get to use it for a little more than a month a year? You could spend that much time in a luxury hotel in someplace with warm blue water (like Hawaii or the mediterranean) for less than that AND keep your down payment. Or you could blow your down payment, spend more and enjoy your month dodging the bums and tweekers here in SD and swimming in the cold water. Totally stupid.
ParticipantThat is truly amazing. What would the yearly mortgage on $500K be assuming $100K down? Something like $30K? And you get to use it for a little more than a month a year? You could spend that much time in a luxury hotel in someplace with warm blue water (like Hawaii or the mediterranean) for less than that AND keep your down payment. Or you could blow your down payment, spend more and enjoy your month dodging the bums and tweekers here in SD and swimming in the cold water. Totally stupid.
ParticipantThat is truly amazing. What would the yearly mortgage on $500K be assuming $100K down? Something like $30K? And you get to use it for a little more than a month a year? You could spend that much time in a luxury hotel in someplace with warm blue water (like Hawaii or the mediterranean) for less than that AND keep your down payment. Or you could blow your down payment, spend more and enjoy your month dodging the bums and tweekers here in SD and swimming in the cold water. Totally stupid.
ParticipantThe tax cuts are a good thing. For those of us that pay soooo much into the system it’s a good incentive to keep some of the rewards of our efforts.
Had they cut spending I would agree with you. But since they increased government spending while simultaneously cutting taxes, they have done more harm than good and left the damage for the next administration(s) to clean up. It’s like they just switched to making the minimum payment on credit cards or opted to make the lowest payment on their “pick a pay” mortgage. Things look great for a while — until they suddenly look really, really bad…
ParticipantThe tax cuts are a good thing. For those of us that pay soooo much into the system it’s a good incentive to keep some of the rewards of our efforts.
Had they cut spending I would agree with you. But since they increased government spending while simultaneously cutting taxes, they have done more harm than good and left the damage for the next administration(s) to clean up. It’s like they just switched to making the minimum payment on credit cards or opted to make the lowest payment on their “pick a pay” mortgage. Things look great for a while — until they suddenly look really, really bad…
ParticipantThe tax cuts are a good thing. For those of us that pay soooo much into the system it’s a good incentive to keep some of the rewards of our efforts.
Had they cut spending I would agree with you. But since they increased government spending while simultaneously cutting taxes, they have done more harm than good and left the damage for the next administration(s) to clean up. It’s like they just switched to making the minimum payment on credit cards or opted to make the lowest payment on their “pick a pay” mortgage. Things look great for a while — until they suddenly look really, really bad…
ParticipantThe tax cuts are a good thing. For those of us that pay soooo much into the system it’s a good incentive to keep some of the rewards of our efforts.
Had they cut spending I would agree with you. But since they increased government spending while simultaneously cutting taxes, they have done more harm than good and left the damage for the next administration(s) to clean up. It’s like they just switched to making the minimum payment on credit cards or opted to make the lowest payment on their “pick a pay” mortgage. Things look great for a while — until they suddenly look really, really bad…
ParticipantThe tax cuts are a good thing. For those of us that pay soooo much into the system it’s a good incentive to keep some of the rewards of our efforts.
Had they cut spending I would agree with you. But since they increased government spending while simultaneously cutting taxes, they have done more harm than good and left the damage for the next administration(s) to clean up. It’s like they just switched to making the minimum payment on credit cards or opted to make the lowest payment on their “pick a pay” mortgage. Things look great for a while — until they suddenly look really, really bad…
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