Remember all those Tea Party people in their Revolutionary garb? Time for a wake up call

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For all those Tea Partiers who fantasize about going back to our Founding Fathers days - This is for you!

Here's to "America’s first commie.. pinko nut-case" who started the first public Fire Department.
Conscience of a Progressive
Ernest Partridge

http://gadfly.igc.org/progressive/private.htm

In colonial Philadelphia, firefighters were employed by private insurance companies which, of course, had financial incentives to minimize damage to their clients’ properties. Plaques with the insurance company’s insignia were placed on buildings, so that the fire fighters would know whether or not it was their “business” to put out the fires on the premises. (These plaques are often found today in antique shops). If the “wrong” plaque was on the building, well, that was just tough luck. Of course, with their attention confined to a single building, fire fighters were ill-disposed to prevent a spreading of the fire to adjacent “non-client” structures.

Occasionally, when the building’s insurance affiliation was in some doubt, competing fire companies would fight each other for the privilege of putting out the fire, resulting in more water aimed at fire fighters than at burning buildings.

Eventually, the absurdity and outright danger of this system led one prominent Philadelphia citizen to come up with the idea of a publicly funded and administered fire department.

His name was Benjamin Franklin: America’s first anti-free-enterprise commie pinko nut-case.

Franklin’s subversive left-wing ideas were extended to include libraries, post offices, and public schools, and, if we are to believe some of today’s regressives, it’s been downhill ever since.1

(more at link - take a look)

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This is what Union Busting is all about - If you can afford it you deserve it - if you can't - tough you know what! Do they really want Blackwater/Xe coming to their doors when they call for police protection and will they be able to afford private fire fighters? Good luck on that one!



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[RandomThoughts]

1. Side note, Benjamin Franklin

Also invented the Lightning Rod.

So I think he will do fine in all this.


For those that don't know, the concept of the lightning rod is to divert the lightning to the ground away from a house. That is how many consolidations try to hide behind other groups.

In those cases the thunder wind is also needed.


AC/DC - Thunderstruck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RukUetw0hAM

Atomic Bomb Footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqyBzXYZPoM