Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Projo Editorial

I'm not quite sure what to make of the editorial in yesterday's Providence Journal. Click on the title and it should link to the page.
Posted by Michael Morse at 3:57 PM

8 comments:

Chrysalis Angel said...

Wonderful things said about you, Michael!

The worry I have is, don't they feel all you out there that provide this valuable service are deserving of every penny you earn? It angers me when people begin to look at the rescuers and search for ways to help the community money pot by asking the rescuers to sacrifice for the common good, because sacrifice they do already (you do). The calls that can come one right after the other without a moment to catch your breath, the family that waits and has to be separated while you help others and risk injury or worse to yourself and your crew members.

We have a thing going on here right now. The Fire Dept. just got a raise - finally...and now some are complaining it's too much. Too much? They should have to walk through a burn unit and see what it is these guys and girls risk in doing their jobs! Their families wait and worry too, wondering if they will come home able bodied and alive. We've had them go through the floor three stories up and land in the basement of these buildings they try to save. A paralyzed firefighter unable to provide for his or her family, no longer able to do the job they love and people worry they pay them too much? Pro ball players make millions, but our EMS,Fire and Police who really provide a service to the community - are begrudged a just and decent wage.

Perhaps I'm off the mark on this article, but it sounded like that's what he was getting at in the end.

6:45 AM
Chrysalis Angel said...

I did see that he feels you are deserving. My feeling is the rescuers are not the ones draining the system. They deserve every cent.

7:20 AM
Anonymous said...

yeah its the fire dept that has to solve the problems of corrupt governtment once again...beautiful...if the fire dept didnt issue a raise for the next 5 years and no one got a disability pension in the next 5 years there would STILL be deficits, taxes, hardship etc...then what? its about time the local governments started axing the salary and benefits of the TOP 5% of employees and stopped using the convenient whipping boy unions! however we all know the true nature of politicians and they'd sooner shoot their mother in the back before they give back even 1% of anything------DISGUSTED

12:00 PM
Tom Kenney said...

Mike,

It's a great, and fitting, tribute to you on one hand. But, Justin was merely using you to spout his anti-union propaganda once again.

I'm arguing with him (on this op-ed piece) right now on Anchor rising.

Tom Kenney

11:39 PM
CJH said...

Don't know how to take it either. In one hand, he's praising the work that you guys do; in the other, he's saying you get paid too much.

What a dolt. Maybe the author should come on a ride-along.

4:31 AM
PFDSpitfire said...

I think it was nice of him to give you a plug... but I think it was pretty crappy of him to use you like that.

However, unions would not be an issue if the friggin' cities and the state would quit paying ridiculous salaries to file clerks, data entry clerks and janitors and start paying firefighters, cops and correctional officers for keeping us safe every day.

But that's just my opinion.

What do I know?

11:05 PM
charlie said...

Well Lieutenant, I think what we have here is a failure to communicate...and a educated idiot.

1:26 PM
Gus said...

What a hippocrate! He patted you on the back and stuck a shank in your ribs at the same time. Just another pol (aka HACK) feathering his message on the backs of our brothers and sisters again. Got to have tough skin for this gig.

10:05 PM

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