No doubt they went down. You see the same thing when you transition EMS from volunteer home response to career or volunteers w/dedicated shifts.

It’s just expensive. Really, really, expensive.

Which is great and I’m super happy you have that. I live in an area covered by volunteers and they are solid people. But there’s no way the township or even neighboring townships could offer FT staffing. Even if you use current infrastructure there just isn’t money to do it safely.

That’s gonna be the case for a lot of areas in the state.

Honestly it’s gonna get really interesting really quickly.

Not every community can afford that. It’s easier for class 3 cities and above. But everyone else…not so much.

Trust me I get it. That’s the driving factor on why it’s unsustainable.

It would go a long way.

Training burns technically.

Volunteerism is on a nose dive. A lot of companies will be unable to respond or unable to respond safely in a very short time frame if they aren’t already.

It’s an unsustainable model.

If your gonna do it, might as well do it humanely.

Thanks very interesting.

Still not a fan of capital punishment but interesting way.

You think they had no idea leading up to this winter that things would be cold and electricity might be used to alleviate that?

No they definitely had no time ever to prepare for this.

Which?

Do you have a link to that story? I would like to read more.

First you didn’t ask me the question.

Second it’s not that simple especially in the context it was originally asked.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume you hasn’t watched the hearing and didn’t listen to why that question was in bad faith.

You know the best part of everything involved in this statement just how obvious a bad-faith ploy it is.

> The applications are marked “not verified” or “NV” if a voter’s identity couldn’t immediately be verified or if the application needs to be verified again before the ballot can be approved, according to a statement sent to us by Amy Gulli, communications director for the Pennsylvania Department of State.

>“For example, a ballot application would be marked with NV if it is a new application that comes in and the provided ID was not able to be immediately verified,” the press release said. “Or, for another example, a ballot application would be marked as NV if it is from a voter on the permanent mail-in or absentee list who requested a mail ballot for both the primary and general elections, and their ID needs to be verified again for the general election.”

It doesn’t take trust. Just look historically. They bungle the economy pretty much every time they are in power.

Conclude all you want. You have nothing to support it and it matters not to me. The best part is you are just running on emotions at this point and no logic, not a good look.

I already voted so now it’s just time to wait and see how things go.

Already voted. I also don’t party vote or vote against a candidate. I evaluate each one and determine how they would best represent me and vote accordingly.

Damn. Here I thought we had made real progress in your ability to not make baseless assumptions.

You know nothing of me or how I vote.

Why would I know better than you?

I’m saying if you piss of your constituents you face losing re-election. That’s what drives most politicians.

Arguably a conservative going against this risks upsetting their base and losing votes.

Not sure why this seems weird it’s the root of politics.

Correct. But they aren’t under any obligation by their constituents to do so. You can’t just change laws without following the proper procedures.

It creates a very dangerous precedence.

They chose to enforce laws as they are written. This isn’t how you correct an unjust law.

But that is how our government functions.

Follow the legislative process to changing a law. The crux of the issue at hand. The process was against standing laws. Change the law through the appropriate governing body and it can’t be challenged.