r/Wildfire • u/ssgtsilerZ • Feb 11 '25

News (General) National Wildland Fire Service — Grassroots Wildland Firefighters

https://www.grassrootswildlandfirefighters.com/nwfs

This is what I woke up to this morning. Thoughts?

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u/hartfordsucks Rage Against the (Green) Machine Feb 11 '25

You want to talk about overpaid individuals? Let's fucking go.

Oh no Randy Erwin makes $176k a year fighting for worker's rights and better employee benefits! How terrible! Given that NFFE represents 100k members, that means each employee pays $1.76 per year for his salary. $176k a year is what a senior developer or a mid level manager at a tech company makes. If anything he should probably be paid more.

The Chief of the USFS makes $200k a year to run the agency into the ground. Most of his minions make $150-200k a year. Where's your anger about that?

From AFL-CIO:

In the past 10 years, typical CEO pay at S&P 500 companies increased by more than $4 million, to an average of $17.7 million in 2023. Meanwhile, the average U.S. worker saw a wage increase of $18,240 over the past decade, earning on average just $65,470 in 2023.

Why is it you anti-union window lickers care more about the salaries of union leaders than CEOs? Unlike CEOs, Randy Irwin is out there earning his pay, trying to make life better for workers, and fighting for our fucking rights. What the fuck are CEOs doing with their money? Buying elections, overthrowing our government, and eliminating as many worker's rights as possible.

Unions and your fellow workers are not your enemy. Republicans intentionally divide the working class with bullshit culture war fights and their anti-union rhetoric. All to distract everyone from them wholeheartedly selling out the working class to the highest corporate bidder.

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u/xWadi Feb 13 '25

I'm not advocating for randy either both suck. And yes gut the office as well. They don't need to be there with an agency so crappy. Thanks. I can go down a very long rabbit hole with wall street as well. Culture war? How the left has been funding dei ideology and forcing people to accept it throughout every society using funds that weren't there's to allocate, let alone it's a Marxist idea. Lit.

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u/hartfordsucks Rage Against the (Green) Machine Feb 13 '25

I'm sorry, I don't know how to reply to your incoherent right-wing conspiracy theory MadLibs.

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u/xWadi Feb 15 '25

Lol can only attack and throw out trigger words the left keeps telling their fans to use. L8r g8r

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u/hartfordsucks Rage Against the (Green) Machine Feb 15 '25

How the left has been funding dei ideology and forcing people to accept it throughout every society using funds that weren't there's to allocate, let alone it's a Marxist idea.

This entire sentence is nothing but lies made up of "trigger words" from right-wing propaganda. That everyone regardless of race, color, creed, sexual orientation, and gender deserve equality in this country is now a "Marxist idea"? Wow. And here I thought "treat others as you want to be treated" was just a "kindergarten idea". I'm sorry you felt "forced" to treat other people equally. I'm super happy for you that you can go back to being an openly hateful bigot.