excellant post.
I got so tired of being flamed as a “socialist” because I raised these issues...It seems that to be a conservative here you must also tolerate ANY IRRESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR if the person is homeschooled, a Christian and “wants to be free”. Yeesh.
Until conservatives get it straight that to be “free” means to cancel the entire entitlement society FIRST or put up a multi million dollar escrow account so I dont’ have to pay for someone’s stupid “freedom “ stunt.
For their next act, Abbey’s parents are going to put her into a home-made rocket and fire her across the English Channel.
This article says that they had no insurance. The comments at the end are telling too.
"These rescues are not at all an efficient use of our military and civilian resources," James said. "But the problem is, what happens if you don't do it? There's some real moral dilemmas involved in this. You can't just say, 'Well, you're a stupid idiot,' and let them drown. It would be pretty hard to justify that."
REGULATION! That’s the answer. Force solo sailors to take ten years of high education and THEN put up a multimillion dollar bond, and they only may sail in government approved equipment, and then we’ll redefine solo circumnavigation as pushing a rubber ducky around a government approved bath tub with government approved Viagra assisted body parts. Yeah, that’s the ticket! LESS FREEDOM. SAVE US FROM ALL POSSIBLE MISFORTUNE, BIG MAMMY GOVERNMENT!
In order to save them time, I’ll go ahead and summarize the expected homeschoolers responses to your incidental reference to homeschooling...
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How dare you mock homeschoolers! Government screwels are of the devil, and are indoctrination camps!
Socialization?!?! Argh! If I want my kid to get public school “socialization”, I’ll just steal his lunch money myself and then push him in the trash can!
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No kidding.
Not only should Abby's family be forced to pay for the rescues, that irresponsible man who got caught in Afghanistan should be forced to pay for his rescue too.
He's way too old to take on such a strenuous challenge, he wasn't properly funded or equiped, he went into extremely dangerous territory, and he was doing it for the fame.
All of those things are warning signs.