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webofevil ([personal profile] webofevil) wrote2005-08-23 05:08 pm
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[identity profile] srk1.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
The Onion had a headline on the same topic: "libertarian reluctantly calls fire service"

[identity profile] webofevil.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
It's long been a bugbear of the right - and I include a rabid uncle of mine in this - that the fire service, nationally, is "inefficient" and "overstaffed". I can only concur with the remark someone always makes whenever I mention this: I'd like to see how much they complained if it was their own house on fire. "No, there's too many of you, could some of you leave, please, I'm not wasting my taxes on the likes of you", etc.

[identity profile] amuchmoreexotic.livejournal.com 2005-08-23 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I think Chairman Blair should be saying: "Look, no one said bringing democracy to Yorkshire would be easy."
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