Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "SFD Calls For Service 7-24-13":
FYI-the firemen signed a social media contract and are not permitted to post anything on this blog. Hey, did you ever think that their family and friends are tired of you bashing them? It's just ridiculous how much time and energy you're putting into this when there are more pressing issues in Salisbury, like poverty and homelessness. Use your blog site to promote positiveness Joe. You're so negative.
Publishers Notes: It never ceases to amaze me just ridiculous the leadership/followers are in that Department. First of all, 99% of you DON'T live in the City and DON'T pay taxes.
You suggest I publish only "positiveness" and say I'm so "negative". First of all, it is, (and always has been) my job to expose EVERYTHING to the public. I started this Blog because your local media reuses to actually tell the TRUTH.
Think about it like this. Wouldn't it be GREAT if the Daily Times were to actually take the time to look at all the calls for service each year versus the overall yearly expense and let the taxpayers and their subscribers know what each call is costing the taxpayer.
Instead, what you would get from them would include all the ambulance calls and not the true figures. Making your staff sign a contract to stay off Salisbury News and not comment just means they know they're afraid the honorable Firefighters might actually tell the truth.
You also say I am "bashing" the Firefighters, their Families and Friends. Let me start off by tell you, I have many friends in the Fire Department. Some agree with me and some do not. We don't get into yelling matches and hate each other. At the end of the day we agree to disagree. Just because I, (and many of our readers) have an opposite opinion doesn't mean I/we are bashing anyone. YOU are simply afraid, no, scared to death, that we're gong to expose enough information that the taxpayers might they are wasting millions of dollars each year for a service that isn't necessary.
Now, if what I'm suggesting is true an the overall public does in fact decide it's a waste, IS THAT NEGATIVE? Only for the select few getting paychecks for chasing ambulances and NOT fighting fires.
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Here's a positive for you...how about a happy story about how the fire department has so much respect for the taxpayers of the city that they are curtailing use of fire equipment for personal errands and are helping with some of the other chores like keeping the stations clean when they aren't dispatched on calls to assist those they serve during tough economic times. Joe would have a nice story to write and everyone would be showing respect for the taxpayers.
ReplyDeletehahaaha, salisbury IS a big negative. everything about it, the roads, the schools,the crime, the local government, maybe if salisbury did something positive there would be something positive to talk about. but it just keeps on that downward spiral
ReplyDeleteIf the public is dissatisfied what should they do? All I have seen so far are complaints on here. What is the next step. I read on here several times over the past few years that people were going to the next Council meeting concerning the fire company's outrageous abuse. So far that has not happened, and I am wondering why.
ReplyDeleteI would like to Thank You... This is an abuse of tax payers money. In the days of past... the department would send one person out to bring food back and/or to the store to buy food to be prepared at the station. Yes, they would take a piece of equipment.. so that if something happened they could be dispatched from where they were... but it was one or two people and they came back to the station. I went past the Rolly Polly (or whatever it's name is)on 13 by the college a week or so ago and there were 3 pieces of equipment and at least 5 or 6 firefighters sitting in the lounge chairs feet up and eating. No excuse and not acceptable.
ReplyDeleteDon't overestimate your "Friends" in the fire department. I believe I may be one person you consider as your friend. I have lost whatever respect that I may have ever had for you. Your post are uneducated and fail to tell the truth. I'm not sure what your problem is with the fire department, but you have few friends in the department. Your perception once again fails to be a reality.
ReplyDeleteThe Schools have been taken over by the THUGS! Just go walk the halls and see for yourself! Gangs are in all of them and they say there is nothing they can do! I know what a lot of people have done: MOVE!!!!!
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