I'm in line at the car wash yesterday and the vehicle in from of me has a Montana Firefighter license plate and a bumper sticker that says "Socialism is not the Answer." I happen to know that the owner of the vehicle is a Bozeman firefighter. Here's the irony:  At some point, cities accross the nation decided that having competent, trained, full-time firefighters to protect residential and commercial structures was a vital community need. These cities asked all of their citizens to contribute a portion of their wages (taxes) into a collective pool for the purposes of hiring and training these firefighters. These cities purchased land with these collective, communal funds and built firehouses stocked with fire-fighting equipment. As incentives to remain on the job - and thus on the public dole - throughout their employable years, firefighters are offered pensions, paid for with funds collected from each member of the community's citizenry; so once a firefighter retires from his/her vital public role, the citizens of the community then fund these people in their dotage. Firefirighting services can only be described as a socialist scructure; there's absolutely no doubt about it. And this yahoo in front of me at the car wash is aghast, aghast I tell you, that we might be heading toward socialism; the same system that funds his occupation, will fund his retirement and allowed him to purchase the vehicle that holds that bumper sticker. What a joke.