As ThinkProgress reported earlier this morning, South Fulton firefighters from Obion, Tennessee, last week stood by and watched as a family’s home burned down because their services were available by subscription only, and the family had not paid the $75 fee. As ThinkProgress noted, the case perfectly demonstrated conservative ideology, which is based around the idea of the on-your-own society and informs a policy agenda that primarily serves the well-off and privileged.
Bullshit.
We are not talking about thousands of dollars here. We are talking about $75. You do not have to be "well-off" to afford yearly fire protection for $75. That comes to under 20 cents a day. And why didn't the family buy the protection? The same reason lots of people would do the same. They A) didn't expect to have a fire (i.e. they exhibited rank stupidity), and B) they thought if they ever did have a fire they would be protected anyway; in effect they believed other people would pay for their fire protection.
I'm sorry, but sometimes bad things happen to moronic people. Why are we all supposed to pick up the bill to bail them out?
Unfortunately, we live in a society where too many people seems to believe they are "too big to fail." I hate to break it to them, but that simply is not true.
Grow up.
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