One brave (and lonely) soul defended Senator Burns in a comment about the Burns fire story at the Gazette. What struck me was just true the defense was, at least in part:
I personally have family members that have worked on forest fires and there is alot of wasteful spending and excessive down times. Burns sees first hand the excessive spending that is wasted by our government. Perhaps we could look at this from his perspective.
If anyone knows first hand about excessive government spending, it’s Conrad Burns. One thing most of us can agree on, though, is that paying people ten bucks an hour to defend homes, ranches and public lands from devastating fires isn’t wasteful.
Everyone except for the Senator seems to know that.
Article by Don Pogreba
Don is an English/Debate teacher and debate handbook author who lives in Helena, MT, and who can't imagine living anywhere other than this glorious state. Much of his writing happens late at night and he is unlikely to respond to your comments during the day.
Comments on this entry are closed.
{ 1 trackback }