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Jan. 4th, 2007 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ann_leckieSo I decided I needed to do some more research for the story, and I went to the library. On my way in, I was accosted by a gentleman who said he was with Channel 2 News, and did I vote in the November elections? Oh, brother, did I.
And had I voted to increase the state minimum wage? Also affirmative.
"Did you realize," he said, in dire tones, "that you also voted for a fifteen percent pay increase for firefighters all across Missouri? It was in the fine print!"
"Oh, good!" I said, quite cheerily. "I think firefighters deserve a..."
I didn't get to finish. He actually recoiled in startlement. "But it'll cost fire departments millions of dollars!"
I looked down at his jacket, and saw over the "Channel 2" embroidered there the thing that I had forgotten about Channel 2: FOX. "I don't think I'm interested in talking to you," I said, and turned my back on him and walked into the library.
Really and truly, how low do you have to be to begrudge firefighters a decent salary?
(And who votes without even reading the paragraph on the ballot that explains what the initiative you're voting on does? Sheesh.)
And had I voted to increase the state minimum wage? Also affirmative.
"Did you realize," he said, in dire tones, "that you also voted for a fifteen percent pay increase for firefighters all across Missouri? It was in the fine print!"
"Oh, good!" I said, quite cheerily. "I think firefighters deserve a..."
I didn't get to finish. He actually recoiled in startlement. "But it'll cost fire departments millions of dollars!"
I looked down at his jacket, and saw over the "Channel 2" embroidered there the thing that I had forgotten about Channel 2: FOX. "I don't think I'm interested in talking to you," I said, and turned my back on him and walked into the library.
Really and truly, how low do you have to be to begrudge firefighters a decent salary?
(And who votes without even reading the paragraph on the ballot that explains what the initiative you're voting on does? Sheesh.)