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STOP WASTING MONEY, SETTING FIRES, INJURING PEOPLE, AND SCARING THE WITS OUT OF ANIMALS  

stardust81937 87M
4345 posts
7/2/2016 2:19 am
STOP WASTING MONEY, SETTING FIRES, INJURING PEOPLE, AND SCARING THE WITS OUT OF ANIMALS
Let's all grow up and end this mass hypnosis with fireworks.

Even though it's estimated that this year the U.S. will spend more than one billion dollars for a bunch of 15 minute flashing, exploding, colored missiles, there are no strong movements by any group to end the yearly nonsense.

On top of the billion dollars that goes down the sewer in 15 minute fireworks displays all across this country, the statisticians need to add in the cost of the property fires caused by this exploding crap.... and the blown off fingers (and worse injuries}, caused by amateurs messing with exploding gunpowder...Which they have not done...the real cost of all the money wasted on the 4th of July fireworks displays across the country is much higher.

I've tried to find out HOW MANY tax-payer sponsored fireworks displays will be set off to frighten dogs and other animals, shake houses, set fires, and blow off human appendages. The only stats I've read is 16,000, and that was an old stat of a few years ago...

I personally dislike fireworks to an extreme. You probably assume that's because I'm an old sucker, and grumpy as all heck..That's Not the case! In reality I'm very friendly and good-natured. I hated fireworks when I was a . I've always thought they were a ridiculous waste of money and a huge fire hazard.

Perhaps because I'm an outside sort of guy, I watch the displays that nature puts on with every sunrise and sunset, and when lightning storms blow in... Man's fireworks are like a fart in the wind in comparison. Take your to Disney Land if THEY need to see fireworks for the first time. At least there, the cost of the crap doesn't come from taxpayers, and I assume Disney Land has people who know what the heck they're doing to protect against accidental fires and injuries..

The Fourth of July is a celebration. The birth of this nation really IS something to celebrate. But.. can't it be done a little quieter, safer, and less expensively?

by david stardust... July 2nd, 2016.. Saturday morning.
stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
7/2/2016 10:31 am
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I'm glad the cute dogs you have now aren't freaked out by the explosions. My dogs are used to some distant sounds of gunfire and explosions from the large Marine Corp. base a few miles away, but they still get a little spooked by distant fireworks, and I always bring them inside where they can't hear or see them.

During the 40 years I've lived out here there have been a number of accounts of fires and injuries on the local news caused by fireworks being played with by amateurs.

Mainly I get mad at all the taxpayer money being wasted when there are so many things in our country that are falling apart and there's no money to fix things.

Thanks for you comment, H.C. ...dave


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