Mississippi Receives $1 Million Federal Grant for Home Smoke Alarms

March 25, 2010

  • March 25, 2010 at 2:14 am
    VA Agent says:
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    Why is a grant from Homeland Security being used to buy smoke detectors? Last time I checked the Dept. of Homeland Security was for counter terrorism, and to transportation security measures. Are Bin-ladin and his cohorts going to attack with moltov cocktails now?

  • March 25, 2010 at 3:42 am
    Mark says:
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    1. When the government gives money paid by taxpayers to those who haven’t paid taxes (low income = no taxes)it’s re-distribution of wealth.
    2. Are there really 58,000 trailers, oh, sorry – mobile homes, opps — manufactured houses, in Mississippi?
    3. Sorry, but non-operating smoke detectors are Darwin’s way of culling the herd.

  • March 25, 2010 at 6:31 am
    matt says:
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    “3. Sorry, but non-operating smoke detectors are Darwin’s way of culling the herd.”

    Wow. I hope your house doesn’t start on fire in the middle of the night, and if it does may you be so fortunate as to have a working smoke detector.

    You can add me to the ranks of the filthy communists who think it’s worth $15 to make sure someone has a working smoke detector in the house who otherwise wouldn’t.

    How anyone in the insurance business could see a grant program for smoke detectors as a bad thing is beyond me. I doubt the million pays for labor- you’re talking about firefighters and volunteers doing the installs as a community service. Someone call McCarthy, I smell the Reds!

    Personally, I’m a lot more concerned about the upward redistribution of wealth than anything. Who really gives a flying hoot about a million dollars of smoke detectors when we spent a trillion on foreign interventionism in the past 10 years alone, we still have the same banking rules and the big banks already resumed paying tens of billions in bonuses? HeLLOOO?!??!

  • March 26, 2010 at 7:00 am
    Baxtor says:
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    You said it all Bob! Matt is one of these people that believe, if everyone else is getting something for free, he should be too. I agree with you Bob, when one of these fails and a child dies, good old homeland security will get sued as well as the manufacturer of the smoke detector. As well as the government should get sued because they are putting a potential false promise of a life saving smoke detector in people’s homes. They would be better off giving them $15 to buy their own so when it fails, the government didn’t pick the brand. I wonder which politician has stock or a relative that owns the smoke detector company. Another bright move Uncle Sam!!

  • March 26, 2010 at 10:00 am
    Bob says:
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    Exactly!!! 15 dollars! How the hell could you own your own home or even rent an apartment and not buy your own gd smoke detector?????? Next there going to be crying for batteries and when they don’t put new batteries in and the house burns down they will sue the government. If you are not responsible enough to protect your own dwelling for 15 bucks, I’m sorry but, screw you!!!!!!!



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