The best part though is whole Scott Walker is giving you an $.08 pay cut this year, he is giving his friends in Tennessee $18,000.
And CBL Properties of Chattanooga, Tenn., owner
of East Towne and West Towne malls, will enjoy an $18,000 savings. Each
mall is assessed for about $81 million, according to city tax records,
with the owners paying almost $4 million total in property taxes last
year.
Nothing says "create" jobs in WI, like sending an $18,000 check to TN. I wonder how much the rent at East Towne and West Town will come down now? Or what kind of sale the stores will run to help spark the economy because of this "tax cut"?
Or will CBL properties just add it into their bottom line and bonus the CEO because of improved profitability?
When fire broke out in her mobile home in Tennessee's rural Obion
County Monday morning, Vicky Bell called 911. The fire department from
nearby South Fulton arrived, and then just watched as the home burned to
the ground because Bell had not paid the $75 annual fee for fire
protection.
Bell and her boyfriend, Brian Gilbert, escaped the fire without
injury, but lost everything. "We have no idea where we will go from
here," Bell told KFVS-TV. "We are very lucky it was minutes from getting us."
For $75 %#*@* dollars the fire department let these poor fellow Americans house burn to the ground! This shows the difference between being a progressive American or a right wing american. It is the difference of if we live in a "WE" society or a "ME" society. Right now we are living in a "ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME" society(thanks tea partiers)! Think I am exaggerating? Let's check back in with some of the players of this tragedy!
Obion County Mayor Benny McGuire tells the WPSD-TV "To
me, it's not an issue. To me it's like car insurance. If you have a
car, you pay insurance. If you want protection, you pay the price."
South Fulton Mayor David Crocker says if the fire department
responded to homes where people failed to pay the fee there would be no
reason for anyone to subscribe to the service. "There's no way to go to
every fire and keep up the manpower, the equipment, and just the
funding for the fire department (without the fee)," he told the Tennessean.
And, for their trouble, the South Fulton fire department is being
treated as though it has done something wrong, rather than having gone
out of its way to make services available to people who did not have
them before. The world is full of jerks, freeloaders, and ingrates — and
the problems they create for themselves are their own. These
free-riders have no more right to South Fulton’s firefighting services
than people in Muleshoe, Texas, have to those of NYPD detectives.
Let's check in with the attempted freeloader Ms. Bell( in the biggest case of Stockholm syndrome I have ever seen).
Bell told KFVS-TV she didn't pay the fee because she didn't have
insurance, which she told the station is a requirement in order to
subscribe to the firefighting service. "I'm not mad at the city, I
understand," said Bell.
The station reported Bell told them most of her neighbors in the
trailer park did not have insurance because they are not eligible.
Bell says she's more concerned about how
she's going to put her life back together now that she and her
boyfriend, Brian Gilbert have lost everything.
So she understands that her whole life possessions and almost her life are gone because she did not pay a $75 "fire fee"? We watch fellow Americans lives burn for $75 and cheer? In America? Our Founders would be sickened!
For the "tea partiers" and right wing extremists like Benny Mcguire and David Crocker should have been paying attention in grade school:
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