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"Fire Strike - Vote Here"

Fact: It's not difficult to recruit Firemen. If they were given a big pay rise then that would be a cue for everybody else too. Taxes would rise dramatically and the economy would melt down. We would all be worse off.

I have two suggestions:

1. Train the armed forces to use up to date fire-fighting equipment and make it illegal for anybody to prevent the use of such equipment.

2. As Firemen have nothing to do except play darts for half their time, why not give them some more work. They could be the town watchers, pouring over cctv monitors to watch for traffic jams, fires and rowdy elements of society, and simply reporting events to the Police as necessary. That could be worth 5% on their pay. Of course they might have to be banned from doing second jobs during the day if they have to stay awake all night watching monitors.

These are exceptionally good and logical ideas. Maybe I should be a Governement adviser.

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Goatboy wrote:

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Sorry, I tried to fit a whole paragraph in to one sentence.
HAVEN'T YOU EVER DONE THAT!?

*NOTE to self, don't do any more para-sentences*

Expletive Deleted wrote:
> Erm, excuse me, but it's the police who get to the scene of a fire
> BEFORE the Fire Brigade, and as thusly, they are the ones who have to
> go into the houses, and see if anyone is trapped, etc, without the use
> of oxygen gizmos;
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Summary so far:

They deserve a pay rise
They shouldn't be on strike

Tony wrote:
> Doughnut Monster wrote:
> Look at it this way, people who sit around in offices get paid
> sometimes 100'2 of thousands for doing nothing but pushing paper
> around.
>
> When our Firemen go out every day risking their lives, and what do
> they get paid? well it's laughable.
> They deserve the 40% pay rise.
>
> I say STRIKE!
>
>
> My crystal ball says this person will get a massive reality shock at
> some time in the future.

Meaning?

I wish the do-gooders on here would stop saying "They deserve huge amounts of money, because they put their lives at risk every day".

Erm, excuse me, but it's the police who get to the scene of a fire BEFORE the Fire Brigade, and as thusly, they are the ones who have to go into the houses, and see if anyone is trapped, etc, without the use of oxygen gizmos; which, I might add, are so high-tech, that the only chance of Firemen being hurt in a fire is if the place blew up.

And they want 40%. Why, exactly? "Because it ties-in with the job they do"? That's a slight load of rubbish.

And to get the % rise, you most certainly shouldn't abandon from your job, theirs of which, is to save lives around the country.

I wonder what would happen if one of THEIR housese caught on fire during this strike. I wouldn't like to see that happen, but it would certainly put a few things in perspective for them, and make them see things from our point of view, instead of the "me me me" attitude they so ignorantly have now.

Goatboy wrote:
> I dont trust him.

"Holy rear entry Batman!"

hmmm... Fire-strike to Batman, interesting development

Mind you, Batman chooses to spend his time with a trusty young male "ward", a former circus performer who now lives in that big house with a man that likes to wear rubber.

I dont trust him.

lies.

He does too!
Upside down from a pole, I saw it in a movie