Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion Who is gonna pay for the SAR?

Why should it be any different for hikers or climbers that get into trouble than for others in this country?

Wall Street gets in trouble and we bail 'em out. The banks, the same thing. Hillary just told the rest of the world that we will pay them with fees (taxes) to help them in global warming. Heck, go visit an animal shelter and see how many people think you ought to pay for the animal they wanted to throw away. People upside down on their mortgages get to walk away and financially hurt others who had nothing to do with it. Lots of examples: fat people blame McDonalds, so there are lawsuits to make them pay. Coffee falls on a lap, so another lawsuit.

And as time goes on, it's going to get worse......so hold on and as your government expands to take care of us, our personal responsibility shrinks.

Over the last 20 years, "personal responsibility" has been lost. So I say......not only should we pay to help rescue every person who gets lost, turns on their SPOT, etc., we should thank them for giving us the opportunity to help them.

:-).......well, maybe not.