Congratulations to RURAL METRO
       Firetruck Repair Garage

for consistent and exceptional achievement!   This is made possible by
market price signals which guide a privately owned competitive business
that is highly motivated to earn profit.  The Freedom Engine   (Firetruck)
presented by East Tennesseans to the New York City Fire Department
after Sept. 11, 2001,  broke down months ago and has not been repaired?       Farmer Brown Explains:
New York City firemen and repairmen are heroic and capable,                         [ IPSEITY.US ]
and are likely as energetic as the few Rural Metro professionals at their
(firetruck) garage today -  with only one truck to repair.  Rural Metro is not
limited by Government regulations or Bureaucracy.   This Emergency Service
Business has the advantage of freedom to choose the best means to do the work
which serves the public -   their business and jobs depend on quality performance!
This is the   difference between   government or business.   Government is limited
by the constitution,   legal statutes,   and bureaucratic regulations.   Business power
is limited by competition of ability to perform work,   and satisfy buyers they serve.
Each business person can be encouraged to choose the best way to do the work.
Profit and loss accounting measures the results of these choices:   to reward the best
managers and workers,   and to limit the discretion of those with less ability.
Buyers vote for the most satisfactory performance -  with each penny they spend
Competition with others who are eager to earn rewards by winning money votes,
is the means of limiting the power of those with poor judgement,  skills,  or effort.

Yet the New York City Fire Department is not placed into receivership
and the fire engines sold to competitors who can manage them better.   Why Not?
“Customers” are unable to stop funding the poorly managed Fire Department
which fails to repair the Freedom Engine.   Deadbeat taxpayers suffer the “or else”
enforcement of revenue agents, policemen, jailers, judges, and are sent “up the river”.
Those who are “serviced” by Government and don’t pay,   are sold down the river.
When your life depends on the Service –   Rural Metro delivers!
Government–Business partnerships are encouraged to remedy this poor performance,
and we are told:  Government should be operated as a business.  Dictatorship is a
system of government without limits on discretion.   Eminent Domain power of
Government to develop land for profit (as a business) was used by TVA -   Tellico
lakefront property;   and commercial development in New London, Connecticut.
A classic example of Government–Business partnership is:   Sheriff and Bootlegger.
Bureaucratic limitation by rules is the means of managing those activities which are
blind to profit signals -   such as the jail (contrasted with a hotel or restaurant).
Fire and Ambulance Emergency Services are not blind to market price signals.
Rural Metro competes in the market -   for profit,   without force or coercion.
Government has an exclusive legal monopoly of enforcement.   The Sheriff is limited
by Legal Statutes and bureaucratic regulations because market price signals cannot
orient the work he and his deputies do.    Robbers and thugs use force for profit.

The “dog-eat-dog” battle for survival in the market does not kill or loot the weak
but changes the leadership to put their labor and resources under better managers.
Competition of Ability to serve  allows buyers to control each Business.
Competition of Ability to reward  allows producers to control buying.
     "From Each according to Ability,  To Each according to Need."
      is a  seductive slogan  which enslaves producers to the "Needy".
Achievement and production are the result of choice.  Private Property protects
the needy by unleashing human reason to create values,  and defends the right of
productive workers to choose those who are deserving of their products.
Taxation to fund charitable grants is a violation of the right to own the product(s)
of one's work.  This is slavery by democratic cannibalism.
                        Wednesday 14 Sept 2005


Knoxville News Sentinel        Friday  September 9, 2005
     (Excerpts of Newspaper articles)
      By J.J. STAMBAUGH, stambaugh@knews.com
East Tennessee and the New York department have a
special link through the  Freedom Engine, a fire truck
that was donated to the city by East Tennesseans after
the 2001 attacks.   The campaign to raise funds for the truck
generated more than $969,000,  mostly in small contributions
from more than 6,000 individuals across East Tennessee.
Former NYFD Capt. Stephen Damato expressed frustration Thursday:
"It's been out of service for at least nine months,"  he said.

Knoxville News Sentinel        Wednesday  September 21, 2005
The "Freedom Engine" was returned to its station Friday Sept. 16.
The vehicle has been out of service for approximately 14 months.
The company attempted to replace the truck's swivel from March 13
until Sept. 16.   (six of the 14 months out of service.)
"First,  it was the complexity of the part that broke,"  said Scott Mintier,
chief executive officer of the truck's manufacturer,  Seagrave Fire Apparatus..
"It's not a simple thing.  It's not like replacing the brakes on your car."


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