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DoxxingShillDownvote t1_jdagjgy wrote

Reply to comment by RafeDangerous in Apparently retirement communities are abusing ambulance services and decreasing availability for when other residents have emergencies by ShallowFreakingValue

> We're talking about EMS and Fire, not police and schools. How exactly do you think volunteers who don't get paid for their time are driving up taxes by having them be town based?

I am talking about all of it. You are not listening. I never said hometown based. But ya know, you keep missing the important bits. Details aren't your thing I guess.

>Economics dictates that they run as close to the minimum number of rigs as possible

I love it when people talk shite that they have no idea about. Taxes pay for manned squad. Regionalization helps costs be spread over multiple communities.

Or do it your way... Seems to be working so great... Amirite? You take care now

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DoxxingShillDownvote t1_jd9pvtq wrote

Reply to comment by RafeDangerous in Apparently retirement communities are abusing ambulance services and decreasing availability for when other residents have emergencies by ShallowFreakingValue

> I don't care if you mean towns, regions, continents or stellar clusters, it will not happen. How do I know this? Because what I described isn't a hypothetical, it's what actually happens.

Oh I know it will not happen. Because pig headed NJ towns won't give up their fiefdoms. You'd rather drowned in taxes and make grand speeches rather than regionalize schools, fire, police, ems.

> You're brushing off the issue of insurance as if it's not really relevant

Because it isn't. Not to this issue. I live in a part of NJ where we have actual, paid EMS. The ambulance comes when I call it. What a miracle. Can I or the city control insurance? No. Are we better off for having a public EMS? Yes.

You want to solve all of healthcare... I applaud you and we'd probably agree. I just want normal, functioning emergency response.

>Imagine calling a service run for the public good by volunteers "idiotic"

It is idiotic when it breaks down and no ambulance responds when called.

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DoxxingShillDownvote t1_jd8y1hy wrote

Reply to comment by RafeDangerous in Apparently retirement communities are abusing ambulance services and decreasing availability for when other residents have emergencies by ShallowFreakingValue

not town, . REGIONS... town in NJ are literally useless... and continually overspend on their own private police forces and own private schools. Regionalize and save money as well as lives. As for insurance... insurance is an issue, but I am not here to fight that fight. I am here to say that volunteer emergency services is idiotic

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DoxxingShillDownvote t1_jd7jbak wrote

Reply to comment by RafeDangerous in Apparently retirement communities are abusing ambulance services and decreasing availability for when other residents have emergencies by ShallowFreakingValue

> So you're in favor of yet more crippling medical billing for people?

No, I am in favor of predictable medical services that can respond when called. Not be paged from their jobs 2 and 3 times hoping you get enough people to show up. This isn't a game, it's people's lives. Want to keep medical bills down? REGIONALIZE!!!! not every town needs its own little ambulance service, own police, own schools, own fire. WAKE UP... it makes no sense, and is not sustainable, the way we do things today. The rest of medical bill shave to do with insurance... that's a bigger issue.

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DoxxingShillDownvote t1_j1hss9s wrote

Reply to comment by Knobbies4Ever in Feral cats near holland tunnel by sweetPea2278

TNR doesn't work. We keep seeing these efforts pushed, but they are never broad enough, never well funded enough. Cat populations keep exploding. These ferals aren't pets. The ones that can't be adopted need to be put down. Sorry but it's the truth, unless someone is willing to set up a dedicated piece of land just to rehome the cats in.

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