National Review Writers Defend County Whose Subscription-Only Firefighters Watched Home Burn Down
As ThinkProgress reported earlier this morning, South Fulton firefighters from Obion, Tennessee, last week stood by and watched as a family’s home burned down because their services were available by subscription only, and the family had not paid the $75 fee. As ThinkProgress noted, the case perfectly demonstrated conservative ideology, which is based around the idea of the on-your-own society and informs a policy agenda that primarily serves the well-off and privileged.
Now, leading conservative authors from modern conservatism’s bulkhead magazine, The National Review, have come out in defense of Obion County firefighters’ policy of servicing rural citizens by paid subscription only.
Yes, Conservative Douchebags, anyone who can’t afford a particular service is a freeloader, jerk and an ingrate who have no right to fire service or anything else for which they can’t pay.
Only the well off should have fire services, health care, roads, education, etc. The rest of us are good for nothing but migrant farm work anyway.