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January 26th, 2013 | #1 |
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Jobs and Dangers
I Put My Life on the Line Writing This Article!
by Steven Greenhut America’s two biggest groups of scammers have got to be police officers and firefighters, whose union reps routinely tell Americans that their members put their lives on the line every day simply by slipping into their uniforms. They really use that terminology as they lobby for "donning and doffing" rules that give them extra pay for the time they spend slipping into their government-supplied garments. But the latest data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics once again show that these groups of government employees work in relatively safe professions, with firefighters having a lower death rate than the average American worker and barely edging out cashiers in terms of putting their lives on the line. Most cashiers are killed on the job because of homicides, whereas a quarter of firefighter deaths are from truck accidents – and the numbers have declined, apparently, after concerted efforts to convince these heroes to buckle their seatbelts. Fishermen, loggers, pilots and farmers/ranchers have the most dangerous jobs in America. Police officers and sheriffs fall below farmers, but above construction workers. About half of their deaths are because of car accidents, often the fault of their own driving habits. This list looks at the data over a longer period and reinforces the same point. None of the top 10 dangerous jobs are in the government "public safety" area and only one category (trash collectors) is dominated by government employees. I’ve known people who work in a number of the most-dangerous professions – taxi drivers, truck drivers, trash collectors, electrical line workers, loggers, fishermen, pilots, roofers, coal miners, farmers – and I cannot ever recall any of them insisting to me personally or publicly that they are "heroes" who "put their lives on the line." Once in a while, I’ll hear a farmer insist that it’s thanks to his kind that we have food on our table, but even that’s a rarity and it's usually part of a political campaign to keep the environmental crazies from restricting his water or property use. I can’t recall ever telling people that, by writing this article, I am a hero of the First Amendment. As annoying as my profession may be, I don’t know any journalists who would argue such an absurdity. By contrast, police officers and paid government firefighters – as opposed to the largely noble group of volunteers, who provide this service to the public for free, despite the harassment they receive from firefighter unions who try to put them out of business – always insist that they are heroes. They do so in their public pronouncements and especially during union negotiations. They love to have press conferences and hand out heroism awards to fellow union members. They often tell me that it's thanks to them that I am safe to enjoy my life. During negotiations, firefighters and police routinely invoke the memory of 9/11 for their own personal gain. I remember when Laguna Beach, Calif., firefighters – who have a cushy gig on the Southern California coast – plastered photos of 9/11 all over a fire truck as they lobbied for higher pay during their dispute with the city manager. In the California Legislature this year, Democratic leaders quietly pushed ahead legislation that would have declared that any retired cop or firefighter, no matter how old, would be presumed to have died of a work-related injury if he or she died from some common ailments such as blood disorders, heart disease or cancer. The purpose was to give huge payouts to their survivors. The bill was softened then vetoed, but it shows the lengths to which the unions will go to play the hero card for self enrichment. A few years ago, I wrote about a bill that would have exempted firefighters from criminal negligence for on-the-job behavior. It, too, died, but there’s no special protection that these heroes won’t seek. Police unions lobby to assure that even the most abusive among them don’t have to suffer any penalties, even in instances where they shoot unarmed members of the public in the back. Heroes are people who display great courage and selflessness to protect others. Here, we see people who are extremely well paid for services that entail only modest risk, and then rig the legal system so there is no accountability if they misbehave. They increasingly follow bureaucratic rules designed to protect "officer safety," assuring in essence that they are forced to endure virtually zero risk during their work day. Is that heroism? In 2011, Alameda, Calif., firefighters stood around and let a man drown to death. They said they couldn’t go into the 60-degree San Francisco Bay water because they didn’t have the proper cold-water training. Many believe they were selfishly withholding "services" as a way to make a point about proposed budget cutbacks. When asked by a local TV station whether he would go into the water and save a drowning child, division chief Ricci Zombeck said: "Well, if I was off duty I would know what I would do, but I think you’re asking me my on-duty response and I would have to stay within our policies and procedures because that’s what’s required by our department to do." Is this the answer of a hero or a bureaucrat? My first LewRockwell article was about a similar event in Philadelphia, where police and firefighters stood around eating and joking as a suicidal man jumped into the water. Despite the assembled minions of well-paid uniformed government workers, it took some unpaid bystanders to risk their lives and try to save the jumper. Unfortunately, the public seems to buy this nonsense. When I was on the Stossel show discussing such issues, a California union spokesman, Dave Low, argued that cops and firefighters receive big pensions because they die soon after retirement. But fortunately I had already done the research. According to the union-controlled California Public Employees Retirement System, police are the longest-living public employee category followed closely by firefighters. They live well into their 80s, enjoying those millionaires’ pensions that their unions have secured for them. Enough is enough. Police and firefighters work in professions that are not particularly dangerous and they live longer lives than most people. Most of this work can be replaced by the private sector. There are no categories of hero. Individuals in all professions and all walks of life engage in heroic acts. The truth will set us free – and might just lighten our tax burden also. January 25, 2013 http://www.lewrockwell.com/greenhut/greenhut71.1.html |
January 26th, 2013 | #2 |
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Amen. These are the Stalinites, and they use the unions as a fence for their bs.
They make 168k/year on average, they retire at 90% of their pay, that's 150k/yr kids, that's ridiculous. I'm talkng about Huntington Beach,Ca. They have 300 million dollars of unfunded liabilities due to these parasites. The cops are no better either. You are expected to pay for this shit. By the way, who do you think they voted for?
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January 26th, 2013 | #4 |
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Wow, I figured the whole "officer safety" thing was getting out of hand but I never realized just how well-protected they already were.
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January 26th, 2013 | #5 |
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I don't think it's fair to say whether firemen as a profession deserve that kind of salary.
A fireman in an all-white neighborhood, well, the most life-threatening injuries these "heroes" get are getting burned while cooking in the fire house. They generally just lounge around, work out, play cards, play nintendo, they don't do jack shit. A fireman in a nigger area, on the other hand, deserves good pay. Those guys have constant problems with arsons and other issues firefighters have to deal with (most things firefighters are called to do aren't related to fires), hell , sometimes the niggers even start to shoot at them...the reason? Unknown. |
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In NYC, the entire fire department was born out of criminal gangs. Gangs like the Bowery Boys started the first fire department. Back in the 1800s, they might get to an incident and find a rival gang already there. Instead of tackling the blaze, they would duke it out to see who would have the right to fight the fire. Seriously, I'm not making this up.
This mentality lives on today. As nowadays, they'll steal all your stuff. There was a fire in some apartment complex near me and some lady was complaining that all her jewelry was stolen. The newspaper theorized that it was squatters, but how could a bunch of junkies sneak into a building cordoned off by police? Numerous people have told me similar stories that never made the papers. They take advantage of people's naiveté that such things could be destroyed in the fire, and who's going to question the almighty heroes of the fire department? |
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any cop is a delusional and useless piece of shit with a gov-approved stamp to play authority..
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/01/...drug-offenses/
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True story about local fire and rescue,... a few years back a friend of mine who used to do the fair circuit selling cleaning products was coming back from a fair after a long weekend , he and his wife were in separate vehicles and driving down dark roads late at night, his wife was following behind him when all of a sudden the lights disappeared into the woods, she had fallen asleep at the wheel and gone off the road destroying their second car, she had over $25,000 in cash on her person at the time, which just happened to disappear after rescue , nobody had any idea where these folks money had gone of course, this was money that kept their business going and it got ripped off by one or some of these hero "firemen/paramedics". It hurt these people financially greatly and they are hard working people...scumbag "firemen" On a side note I used to love these assholes after 911 who got on internet chat sites and use the "fireman hero" status(typically phoney as hell) to get pussy off idiot females who believe this white knight nonsense on the MSM....hilarious! Then the females would come back a few weeks later and whine about the guy using them for sex,....MORONS!
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January 26th, 2013 | #9 |
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I agree that police get way to much due for "putting their lives on the line" when they go to work. They are likely to maybe actually do that once, if at all, during their careers depending on where they are.
I have always had more respect for White police who serve in urban areas, they are often less petty as they have important things to worry about. You have to remember how much money these officers make on "special details" providing security in malls, at bars, etc. They are usually only there to provide assitance if the security guards they back up, who make a fraction of what they make need assistance, and spend most of their time flirting with patrons or store workers. And they can make $18- $25 an hour for this "work". I guess my main problem I have with police, the idea of being a police officer in this day and age, is that you have to be someone with no real moral compass to serve. It is almost common knowledge that writing traffic tickets has very little to do with safety and everything to do with making money for a city, these people somehow justify to themselves pulling people over over minor violations and levying a fine that with many folks out there today can put a individual or family in some peril financially. They "cop" out so to speak and say it's for safety, it's the fault of the driver, it can be fought in court (yeah right) and go on with their lives, doing this for decades. A person with a true sense of right and wrong could not mortgage their values and morality because they get a paycheck, it is that which enables the beast to thrive, whether it be government workers, the military,etc, and that is what I despise most about these sorts. Firefighters are nototrious for being obsessed with pornography, I have heard most FD stations are chalk full of the stuff, magazines and pictures. |
January 26th, 2013 | #10 |
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Hey here's a thought: why not go into policework? Someone has to take these positions.
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wtf
I can't believe you are ragging on fire fighters. Jealous anyone?
It is curious, now that our country is full of nonwhites and run by jews that all our institutions are sources for our derision. In a nation of white people we will have police officers and firemen and they will be proud people we can generally trust. Quote:
So I understand that cops are off on a tangent of late, enforcing the tyranny of an antiwhite government. But this is rather historically recent. Shit. We have nothing left, just nothing. |
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January 27th, 2013 | #13 |
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This guy is probably the all-time poster boy for the overall mentality and attitude of most police officers - Sheriff John Bunnell.
I actually find this guy's over-the-top commentary amusing but I swear I have never met anyone who didn't think this guy was just a colossal a-hole. He says "being a cop is the craziest and toughest job in the world". Can't be tougher than fitting a dozen puns into a 2 minute clip of a car chase. |
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