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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (60043)	10/24/1999 12:32:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Most of the smaller towns in New England have volunteer Fire Departments. I lived in a town in Connecticut that had a very efficient volunteer department. They got money from the town, but it was still a lot cheaper than to have them be full-time employees of some union. As for private police forces, we're seeing them sprout up all over. Gated communities, corporations, and other entities hire them all the time. I think I read somewhere that private security personnel outnumber regular cops now. (I could be wrong, but the numbers are close) We'll still have money to maintain roads and maintain national defense.