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Of Cowards and Firefighters by Barry Roberts Greer (Paperback / softback, 2013)

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The pipezzle.com blog was started back in 2008 to record my fire service experiences. Since then the Great Recession financially clobbered one fire department after ather, and the IAFF and other public service unions remain under assault from the ideological right who are using the Recession as cover to bust unions. So the mission of pipezzle.com shifted from personal experience, although that appears a couple of times, to observation of political cowards who w wish to villify those they praised following 9/11. In short, local governments have attacked public service workers for simple budget expediency. Rather than admit that cutting public safety budgets would reduce public safety, the politicians again and again tried to argue that they could save a buck without losing a life. Pipezzle.com shredded that Orwellain logic used again and again from Philly to LA and finally in the fire district where Greer himself served. Almost all the 2013 section entries concern the battle to stop destructive leadership in the Poquonck Bridge Fire District, the largest and busiest in Groton, Connecticut. The battle is t over, but as of this publication, the firefighters union has halted fiscal insanity with the help of the State of Connecticut. Without unions, power certainly does and will corrupt. Unions are about paychecks, sure, but also about countervailing power, about voices that can tell Mayor Lee of New Haven or Mayor Bloomberg of New New York City or Alan Ackley, a Connecticut fire district president, where to go when necessary. Unions are also about informing the public with information on the consequences of shutting down firehouses and laying off emergency service workers in the years after 9/11 when the fire service became the fire/rescue/ems/hazmat service in a world that never seems to become safer. The title piece itself concerns former Penn State president, Graham Spanier, who is the antithesis of everything emergency service workers stand for and everything the politicians who understand emergency services, like Cory Booker, should stand for.

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-10
1493602004
ISBN-13
9781493602001
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189811758

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Barry Roberts Greer
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Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
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Anthologies
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Textbook

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Black & White Illustrations
Date of Publication
26/10/2013
Country of Publication
United States

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