Exactly a week ago, it was written here how a fire in West Philadelphia killed a 12 year old boy. Much blame was put on the fact that Philly's Democrat Mayor Michael Nutter recently made Fire Department cutbacks, or "brownouts" to punish us all for not going along with this stupid soda tax idea.
Many comments on that article and in e-mails to this writer said that it's wrong to blame Mayor Nutter for the fire: the house was full of smoke detectors that weren't working. An interesting malaise was discerned toward a tragedy in West Philly: most of these e-mails are not able to be printed since they were laced with racial slurs. Funny, we thought it was always people like me who were the racists? Liberals show their true colors when one goes after their precious government, don't they?
At any rate, the Fire Department's union came out over the weekend and stated that the report that the Nutter Administration fed to the hungry and sycophantic media here in Philadelphia was a lie. Surprise, surprise. Nutter's "ingenious" plan to save a few bucks and get everyone to feel bad about thinking taxing soda was a bad idea is coming back to bite him in the rear end and is now pitting him versus Unions.
Never mind the fact that Unions support this City's idiotic DROP program or that Unions are generally violent people who would rather bleed the City's funding dry than let the City flourish by not spending any more money - but here's the rub: The Union is telling the truth, sorta, in this instance.
This kind of reminds me of WWF Summerslam 1992. One of the opening matches from the mid-summer wrestling classic, that year live via satellite from Wembley Stadium in London, pitted two heels (wrestling jargon for "bad guys") against one another: Shawn Michaels and Rick Martel. Basically, the great thing about the match was that nobody cared who won and everyone just wanted to see the two beat the hell out of each other. Oh, and they were fighting over the "managerial services" of Sensational Sherri.
Well, Nutter is Michaels, The Union is Rick Martel and public opinion is Sensational Sherri, supposedly.
In all seriousness, there's no doubt the City lied about response times. Nutter and his crew are gleaming with scandalous ways and this is just another "tragic mishap" to add to the dirty clothes pile. No one in this City will ever elect anyone with Common Sense, no one in this City will ever stop this from happening because they've been electing Democrats for 60 years. Just like President Obama, Nutter's approval is very high in the black community because he's black. With Philadelphia now being about 75-80% black, it's kind of tough for anyone who is white to simply run with Common Sense: any critique of wasting funds on welfare programs while saying we shouldn't be cutting back fire departments and killing kids will be seen as racism. (Yes, even though Nutter's policies killed a black kid)
The biggest problem here is that a 12 year old boy died and Mayor Nutter will say "See? This is why you need a 2-cent-per-ounce tax on soda". Like it's been said here before, they tell us how to live through taxation - even if that means a kid has to die in a fire once in a while. What kind of crack is this Administration smoking?
The Fire Union's story is believable enough. Reports say they took 3 minutes and - while the national average is 5 minutes - a unit would have been there in 40 seconds or so. While the Union is embellishing things quite a bit, I've personally never seen a fire break out in Port Richmond that didn't have a 2 minute or less response time.
The point is that Mayor Nutter has this City wrapped around his finger, ready to do his bidding when he brings back the soda tax idea in a few weeks. If a 12 year old Autistic kid's life means nothing in his Socialist game: what will he do when he doesn't get his way, next time?
- AP
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