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"Emmitsburg Mayor Frank Davis voted for Donald Trump in hopes he would cut federal spending. Now Davis hopes those cuts don't include the permanent cancellation of classes at the National Fire Academy, which is part of the town's identity and helps drive its economy. Davis is also a chief at Emmitsburg's firehouse, known as the Vigilant Hose Company."

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5351764/trump-cuts-national-fire-academy-maryland-emmitsburg-fema-federal-spending

Trump killed the Fema training academy. It's not coming back.

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

They voted to cut the FD in a neighboring town. Then they found out the fire response would jump from 8 minutes to 20+ and everyone in that area would have huge increases in home owners insurance rates.

They recalled the vote and upped the budget within a month. Fucking morons.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

also insurance will likely stop insuring those areas too, the cost is too high. as with the idiots building in wildfire prone areas of california.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They want less building though. It’s a small wealthy New England town.

They think they’re immune to wildfires too, even though it’s all woods and the rate of drought has increased here too. Look at even New Jersey burning now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I was driving on the parkway going towards jersey city about a week ago and the fire trucks were on both sides of the highway just spraying into the trees to keep it under control. Wild stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Anything more than 3 these days is a lost cause.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

They voted to cut the FD in a neighboring town. Then they found out the fire response would jump from 8 minutes to 20+ and everyone in that area would have huge increases in home owners insurance rates.

It is like these morons are constantly surprised each time they discover that public services cost money.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

Oh, they know it costs money. They fail to understand that many of these things are worth the money.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago

It is like these morons are constantly surprised each time they discover that public services cost money.

Even worse. They are too dumb to understand that essential services and workers are essential.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

discover that public services cost money.

discover that public services costS THEM money.

it's ok when it costs someone else money.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

At the end of the day they're just selfish.

My favorite example is the "Free Town Project", where a bunch of libertarians from all over the country tried to take over a town in New Hampshire. After they managed to force through cuts to everything from firefighting to street lights, they had a single police officer left. And he couldn't respond to any calls, because his cruiser was broken and they refused to pay for repairs so crime rose and sex offenders started moving there.

Then came the bears.

They didn't pay for any sort of forest ranger and the cop couldn't respond. So bears started getting close and some people spent years feeding them, while their neighbors walked around armed at all times and would shoot at bears on-sight. Which led to the first black bear on human attack in the state for over a century, where a woman was attacked inside her own home. And shortly after two other attacks happened in nearby towns. So the people went into the forest one night and allegedly shot and killed a dozen bears, which didn't help. Some people suggested the city put bear protection on the trash cans, but it was not passed and was called "government overreach" by others.

So the freedom loving libertarians who moved to a town without zoning laws to live in improvised housing and roam free without laws, ended up having to put up big fences and walls around their homes to keep the bears out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

sex offenders started moving there.

Yeah, you already mentioned the libertarians.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the information. Interesting reading up on this experiment. Wikipedia have several good sources. Seems many of these people forget the "personal responsibility" part of their (deranged) ideology.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Libertarians in general are special breed of ignorance, selfishness, lies, and zero empathy. Qualities we all have to some degree, but when ramped up to 11, it’s a disaster.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They've been raised on the idea that taxes are bad, and never put more thought into it than that. They view things like the fire department as good, so they can't really be funded by those bad taxes, right? ...Right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

This right there.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Those snowflakes, don't they know they have garden hoses...they should pull up their bootstraps and put out their own fires.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

With water that they pumped themselves.