Prehaps, and I'm just guessing here the story goes like this;

They don't have the money for new Trucks because the trucks they have are at the begining of their "life cycle". If that is the case then there is no need to have a rainy day fund to just go out and buy 50 or 100 new fire trucks. Same with the breathing gear. If the equipment is all up to date for the normal fire season then it would make sense to not set money aside for new purchases at this time.

Enter the grand-daddy of wild fires and of course they will be under equipt. That is why cities,counties and even states "share" their ability to fight the really big fires. Perhaps this guy that is running his mouth to (of all places) the Huff and Puff Post, as a way to make him not look so bad.

As far as the clothing issue goes, maybe this particular fire unit was not even supposed to be fighting wild fires. Their area of expertise could be fighting structure fires and getting cats out of trees, Again IDK. They could have been put on this fire as pinch hitters.

Perhaps the guy that is spilling the beans to HP is only covering his own butt for not doing his job in the first place by not NOT having his men and Fire units under his control properly trained and equipted?

There is alot of IF, But, Maybe to that story, and the Huffington Post aint the best one to get to the bottom of it.

Just my $0.02

 

Again J&J, there is no State funding going to any fire department. These guys are blatant liars. All funding of any fire department comes from PROPERTY TAXES or DONATIONS to volunteer units. I live here, I have family in local and State Government, I know how this works. The State of Texas and Rick Perry have never given these fire departments anything in the way of monetary support. They will occasionally sell fire units to volunteer fire departments from college campuses or brush units from the State Parks but the units are not given, they are sold. I've personally bought several over the years for the volunteer units that covered the rural areas I've lived in. The article, regardless of names, is a blatant lie. And who knows, the clown that made the "statement" may be an outsider that is also an Obama fan. Jeez, we have enough of the dimwit outsiders here to start a new nation.....and I wish they would go away and do just that.

 

I used to think that Social Security was a Ponzi scheme, but then a helpful commentator from the MSM (I forget which one) set me straight.

In order for something to be a Ponzi scheme, two conditions must be true: (1) Current investors must be getting paid directly from the investments of new investors, and (2) This fact must not be known by either the current or new investors.

Since in the case of Social Security, all parties involved are "fully aware" that current payees are being paid from the contributions of current contributors, the second test fails and therefore Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme.

Don't you feel better now?

 

Great post !

 

Yep, that is proof enough for the MSM that Rick Perry is a liar when he calls it a Ponzi scheme, lol.

OTOH, you'ld be surprised about how little the masses really know about Social Security.

All parties are not 'fully aware' that the money going in now is being used to pay retirees.

Some people actually believe their social security payments get deposited into a 'lock box' just for them, lol.