“NewsLanc understands from sources deemed reliable that there are issues worthy of public scrutiny concerning the adequacy of fire protection for the City of Lancaster”.
Great! But is there some secret about these issues? I, for one would like to hear about them. Why not put the “adequacy” issues “of fire protection for the city” on the table together with the perspectives of the firefighters and “City Hall”. Most people support the firefighters and they also know about the crisis in most city and state budgets here and around the country.
In a broader context, it is certainly a tragedy that because of the crimes of our nation’s banks and other financial institutions supported by our “bought” cadre of Congress and White House (and state houses), the “people” are in austerity while the major villains and their corporate choruses are sitting on mountains of cash and manipulating the situation further to bring about institutional changes that they had not been able to achieve in “better times”. So we all fight each other on main street over the remaining scraps from the table where we used to sit.. No more.
Aside from my fairly constant complaints about manufactured reality, it is still the world we have collectively chosen or allowed to exist through gullibility, ignorance, religious/political/economic dogmatism, or malice.
But enough of this digression, the issue before us at the moment is just a part of our decline. We need to squeeze the firefighters in Lancaster and even at the cost, perhaps, of safety to the city or themselves. Tomorrow its the teachers, then the Police, then government workers, trade unions, food stamps, living wages, moderate income housing, legal services, homeless shelters, child care, parks, libraries, health care, etc etc.
A self made and manipulated mess.
As George Bush said in another context “Bring em on”!
EDITOR: We wish we could afford a staff to follow up on information provided by reputable individuals on the basis of anonymity. As is probably true of other media outlets, NewsLanc knows about much more than it reports. Rather than say nothing, sometimes we will attribute information to a “source deemed reliable” and allow the reader to decide.
