This billboard says it all...

[cynatnite]

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Found on Facebook

[teddy51]

1. I've never been able to figure out how some people could treat these hero's the way that

they were treated. Yes it's a job, but damn they have always taken their job's seriously and they should have been treated with the utmost respect after 911.

[MarianJack]

4. Yes!

My son was a Fire fighter for the first 4 Halloweens of his life! they were, and are, heroes to our family of 99%ers!

PEACE!

[MarianJack]

2. Very true!

Of course, willard thinks that there are too many people like this Fire Fighter!

PEACE!

[lunatica]

3. Hopefully it will make the rounds

It's very powerful.

[TroglodyteScholar]

5. Very bad Photoshop job pasting in the 2nd thought...

...but makes a good point.

[bluestateguy]

6. Bush/Giuliani/Kasich/Walker voter: "But Oh, look at me, I'm wearing a FDNY T-Shirt!"

Yep, that'll be about as helpful as the yellow ribbon sticker on your car is to the troops overseas.

[freshwest]

7. So true, and heartbreaking. The social contract that these public servants believe in enough to risk

Their lives for, and built the system that provided the wealth of the rich, has been trampled beneath their feet like pearls tossed to swine who turned to rend them. This is what Randian philosphy has done to this country and made our shared humanity a joke. Too much said, very tired of them.

[HopeHoops]

8. Bad Photoshop job.

[Schema Thing]

10. not really

It would be wrong to alter it so that it looked as if the original ad said these words. This way is better.

[skinnydipinacid]

15. no... really

I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't even use photoshop, lol. Probably used Windows Paint.

[kentuck]

22. Sometimes skeptics will not believe anything..

..and sometimes they will believe everything, depending on their bias.

[ieoeja]

27. You two are reading the response wrong.

"It would be wrong to alter it so that it looked as if the original ad said these words. This way is better."

Should be read as, "it is a good photoshop job because it would have been wrong to alter it so that it looked as if the original ad said these words. An obvious photoshop is better."

[cherokeeprogressive]

17. Concur. n/t

[pacalo]

18. Even so, its message is just as thought-provoking.

The obviousness of the photoshop grabs your attention, I agree!

[HopeHoops]

26. Yeah, it would make a really good actual billboard.

[SunSeeker]

9. And when he got cancer, the Republicans wouldn't pay for it. nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. Best post I have seen on DU, thanks!

The GOP will wish it hadn't taken on the firefighters

[nineteen50]

12. The private sector crashed the economy

the public sector bailed it out and now the public sector is being blamed for the crash and dismantled.

[uponit7771]

13. I'd like to sponsor one of these in my city

[Left Coast2020]

14. Is giving good Photoshop one of the rules here?

Just wondering.

[Lifelong Protester]

16. Yep, just saw this on FB too.

We need a couple of these in WI.

[micraphone]

19. hello...... 9/11?????

A tower block or 2 full of MIC and big bidness???

Beautiful.

[amerciti001]

20. some here are off message...

How did Photoshop or MS Paint get in here as the topic of the overall message, Duh!
The message here is that if and when your house is on Fire, no rich guy is going to show up to put it out( yes/no)
When Rich Guys get their Tax cuts- the people that are suppose to come to your aid-are not there to respond. Period.
Why? because the local government had to cut them off the payroll because the Rich guy got his tax cut, which left no money from the backs of middle class to help pay his wages.
STAY ON MESSAGE... When the Rich get more and more tax cuts, The working middle class suffer...

[12AngryBorneoWildmen]

31. Agreed. Thank You. Welcome to the mix.

[SunSeeker]

38. Exactly. I can't believe we're wringing our hands over whether it's photoshopped.

Particularly when it is obvious that it is (duh!), and the point of the op is to convey a message, not present evidence in court. Geez.

This one of two reasons why the left is losing the messaging war, even though we have the facts and justice on our side. We're too busy standing around in a circular firing squad. The other reason of course is money. All most of us can afford is a virtual billboard.

It should be a real billboard though. I hope some firefighters' union plasters billboards like this all over Ohio, PA and Florida.

[kentuck]

21. kick one time

rec

[FreeJoe]

23. Awesome! nt

[dicksmc3]

24. This is a GREAT billboard!!

The DNC and DCCC need to take about 2 or 3 million bucks and buy these in swing states so people can REMEMBER!!

[4_TN_TITANS]

25. That over paid public servant

better not have access to a strong union! I've been a volunteer fireman / first responder, I know how little appreciation they get while everyone else is snug in their beds.

[ieoeja]

28. Probably should change subject to "This photoshopped billboard says it all..." so nobody thinks ...

... you are trying to fool anyone.

[cynatnite]

29. I figured it was obvious enough that it wasn't necessary to say it was photoshopped. n/t

[malaise]

30. K & R

Great billboard

[jwirr]

32. K&R

[Loryn]

33. So great!

[cynatnite]

34. Welcome to DU!

[Iliyah]

35. When did firefighters, police, teachers, women

construction workers become enemy number one?

The way the GOP are attacking them is like they are un-American. When did these professions become anti-America?

It because the 1%ers want total control over America so they can dictate and have a one party rule, kinda, sorta sounds like what the Nazis did.

[amerciti001]

37. They are un-American

See, they can't pick on those segments of society that they use to use as their bully pulpits(Willy Horton, anyone), so now they a demonizing the public sector (i.e., policemen's, teachers, firefighters, ect...), the professions that make up the middle class in our society. Just a thought...when are they going to start denigrating the soldiers that are fighting their wars!? (just a thought)

[RVN VET]

36. Never forget Cliff Stearns' insistence that 911 first responders be vetted

to make sure they weren't terrorists.

Stearns is the epitome of today's political buffoon: he's Republican; he's from Florida; he's a moron (but I repeat myself).

But, alas, he's just one of many.

[Ashley96]

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