PRETTY GOOD MONEY

Ok this one brought me out of retirement. It seems that one of our city council members feels that our city police officers, firefighters, etc., make "Pretty Good Money." He remembers when city employees made a couple of thousand dollars a year. Yeah, he also remembers when a pack of gum was a nickel, and you could pay the doctor with some turnips from the garden and a couple of chickens. Excuse me sir, ask Officer George Strain if he was making pretty good money as he was being run over. Ask other officers if they were making pretty good money as they were being trasported to the hospital after their bones were broken and their heads concussed from fighting with a steroided up lunatic. May I invite you to stand for thirty minutes in the middle of the night in a three thousand degree oven. That is what you ask your firefighters to do when your citizen's house is on fire. Hey I will give you one officer's salary for a year if you would be willing to drive around eight hours a day for a month, in which time I will randomly assault you or shoot at you without any warning just because you are wearing the uniform. Have we got a deal? Didn't think so. Did you know that it is a proven fact that stress causes health problems? Oh yeah, and water is wet if you didn't know that either. I wonder how officer Strain's wife's health was affected as she worried for her husband's health. And, what about the other wives and children who worry about their husbands and fathers? How is their health affected. I challenge you sir to give up one terms salary and benefits for being a council member and use that money to pay for one officer's insurance. I mean really, it isn't like they are risking their lives or anything is it? Oh, and by the way........ well maybe later.