Pronounced "Tacky's," We Assume

Guaranteed to generate nausea. Obviously the desired effect. We don't want to read it all ourself, but here's a quick sample:

A New York Post article recently pointed out 80 percent of firefighters are retiring on a disability pension (in 2008 it was 90 percent). “Disability” means they get their 100k a year tax-free and if they die, their spouses get the money until they die. As the Post points out, this usually runs the taxpayer about two million dollars per firefighter’s retired lifetime; not bad for getting paid to sleep for twenty years.

The asshole typing demonstrates (he thinks) why this is wrong:

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, firefighting is NOT an “extraordinarily dangerous job” at all. A mere six percent of fatal occupation injuries are Protective Service (police, firefighters, etc). The two most dangerous jobs in America are “transportation and material moving” at 26 percent and “construction and extraction” at 19 percent.

Dictionaries would be such a help to some people. Here, just for a start, we might be able to clarify the difference between being disabled & being dead.

Why firefighters might be disabled: Lugging around 80 to 100 lbs. of gear on the job, breathing toxic crap, wrassling w/ firehoses, falling through a half-burned floor & permanently screwing up one's back or knees, or anything the hell else that can disable someone w/o actually killing them. We suppose the typist would prefer being rescued by a 60 yr.-old firefighter w/ a bad back & crummy knees, who at least isn't "sleeping" on his dime, but couldn't pick his sorry ass up & drag him from the flames. Hope that wish comes true soon.