Firefighters Let House Burn Down Over $75.00

**pman5595** · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:36 am Post subject:

My opinion on how it should have been done: Instead of having to pay $75 a year it should have been added to the taxes of all the residents. They don't even realizing they're paying for it, and your house doesn't burn to the ground

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**Subrick** · Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Posts: 1382 Location: Terryville, CT

This is complete horseshit. Letting someone's house burn down (which, might I add, had 3 dogs and a cat inside it) over something as petty as 75 bucks. That system is flawed in a hell of a lot of ways. Firstly, it's just downright messed up to not put out a person's house over money. Second, what if the trees behind his house caught fire, which spread across the trees and to neighboring houses? Thirdly, what if most of the people in a town that adopted this kind of system were unable to pay the fee? Also, as people have previously said, what if there were little children or elderly people in the house that couldn't get out? Would the heartless firefighters just stand there while they burned to death too?

And to this:

**jesse0986** · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:59 am Post subject:

**Subrick** · Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Posts: 1382 Location: Terryville, CT

I should clarify myself a bit. To pay DIRECTLY for it is bad, as you would with a private insurance company. To pay for it simply by paying taxes however I have no problem with it. To have a system in place however such as the current HMO based healthcare system is something I cannot support (thankfully the healthcare bill, as neutered as it came out, has taken some of the power away from the HMOs, and hopefully within the next 10 years the HMO system will collapse and the U.S. will have a universal health care system). I am entirely against private insurance companies. That's my stance on insurance. Stuff like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc. I am all for. Companies like Blue Cross, Geico, Allstate, Kaiser, etc. I am entirely against.
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**jesse0986** · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 4:09 am Post subject:

I don't agree with you at all.

But that's opening up another can of worms. I'm actually surprised this topic hasn't been locked already, since technically it is a news thread--let's try not to get it locked by derailing it.
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**pman5595** · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 4:14 am Post subject:

Glenn Beck Weighs in
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Cenk is the anti-Glenn Beck; Cenk actually has an I.Q. above that of a plastic bottle. Not to mention Cenk doesn't spurt off the most insidious crap on a nightly basis (Obama hates white people, the building I didn't know I work in is a secret Communist haven, I want to poison Nancy Pelosi, etc.)
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You already have a bunch of people angry over taxes. They are called Teabaggers. Only they are going about entirely wrong in their efforts to protest. Instead of marching on Washington, they should be marching on Wall Street, as Michael Moore pointed out on Larry King last year.
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**Boomsars** · Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 1273 Location: Arkansas

First off, I think the topic title is WAY misleading. It's just asking people to come in and say "Those gosh-darned firemen are so mean they should have helped the guy.

" If the topic title was "Man doesn't pay for fire insurance and his house burns down" people would be like "No shit, dude should have payed for insurance." Also you say $75 like it's a petty amount. This is a yearly fee for everyone and I'm sure it adds up as funding for the fire department, among other things. While $75 per year is not a lot for one person, it adds up in the community and over time.

The fact of the matter is the dude didn't pay for insurance. If you don't have flood or tornado (a pretty common thing here) or whatever the fuck insurance and your house gets leveled, would you be angry at the insurance company for not supporting you? No, because that's stupid. Yes, the fire department "let it burn," but again that choice of wording is painting the firemen to be the bad guys. They aren't. They were doing what they were required to do, and all they required to do.

Finally, the fire department was from a different county and is not a volunteer run fire department (as far as I can tell). They had no obligation to put out this dude's house and probably avoided a lot of trouble by not doing so.

Edit: I would feel no differently even if there was loss of human life in the fire. I know someone's going to run in here and be like WELL WHAT IF A CHILD WAS INSIDE? Tough shit. Should have payed for insurance.
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