Tue Jun 12, 2012, 07:19 PM
Star Member Raven (10,375 posts)
Think about it:
You wake up in the middle of the night to thick smoke...you call 911...nobody comes or, more likely, the operator tells you to get yourself, your kids, your elderly mother and your pets out of the house because responders are spread so thin that they can't get to you for 30 minutes.
I live in the "boonies", plus we have a volunteer FD. BEST response time to my house from the nearest fire station is 15 minutes. I wouldn't have to have some 911 operator to tell me to "get my stuff and get out", I have enough sense to do that one myself, DUmbass!
You wake up in the middle of the night and realize that someone is in your house... you call 911...the operator puts you on hold.
I wake up in the middle of the night, realize someone is in my house, ventilate them with several 9mm rounds (my S&W holds 16), then call 911. Cops couldn't get to me any faster if the perp was alive or dead, though they prefer them DRT (Dead Right There). Less paperwork.
You wake up in the middle of the night with chest pains...you call 911...EMT's are on a call elsewhere and there is no coverage.
No problem here, we have 2 ambulance services, one volunteer, one for-profit. They can be here in 10 minutes, or I can be at the hospital in 10 minutes myself.
Your kid comes home from school and tells you that he hasn't been called on in months because his class is so big...says he hasn't had a word with his overwhelmed teacher since the beginning of the school year.
This one is complete BULLSHIT! What kid WANTS the teacher to call on him/her? None I know/went to school with, including myself.
Now, Mitt Romney "resides" in Belmont, Massachusetts, one of the wealthest towns in the state and probably in the country. They will fund all the police and firefighters they want because they have the money. It does not matter if other less well off communities are bleeding. And when they rush Mitt to one of the Boston hospitals, there will be no waiting for hours to be seen like the rest of us.
So move your sorry ass to Belmont, and mooch off their "largeness".

Oh, and schools...even the wealthy Belmont public school system wasn't good enough for Mitt's kids. He sent them to the Belmont Hill School, a private school about a block from his home...know for its small classes and personal attention.
Since the school is only a block from his house, why do you disparage him for sending his children there? Think of all the fossil fuel not being wasted on buses and cars TAKING his children to public school. HE'S SAVING THE FRICKING PLANET, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!!!
Mitt, you supercillious empty suit...you know NOTHING, NOTHING about the lives of real Americans.
Bet he knows more about real Americans than the empty head currently in the White House.