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I hope these people are found and rescued, and that with their billions they will pay back the costs of being rescued from what I agree was entirely a vanity project at now great financial and emotional cost to the public. [/quote]

I guess you feel the titanic victims themselves should have been billed for their rescue. [/quote]

Traveling via a normal mode of transportation is not a vanity project, so no.

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I don't care about the cost of this rescue mission. The government wastes so much money on a daily basis, this is a drop in the bucket. It's hard to get excited about this. Our tax dollars are often wasted. So what.[/quote]

You don't have to get excited about this but on balance I think that it would be better the billionaires to pay for their own search and rescue missions instead of the taxpayers. [/quote]

I can think of lots of ways to spare taxpayers. This barely registers.[/quote]

Okay, but I'm not wrong. [/quote]

Well you are, because they won't be billed.[/quote]

LOL I am not saying they will be billed. [/quote]

You've decided that you're right about who should pay and who shouldn't. Who agrees with you? Not the Coast Guard and US Government.  So, what exactly are you right about? The government wastes a shit ton of money every day. And you think stopping these rare rescues would make even the slightest difference?[/quote]

A lot of people agree with me but that isn't even the point, I think that if you sit and think for one minute whether a billionaire--one individual who has a THOUSAND million dollars--should pay for a rescue operation, or if it should be the US government which is financed in large part through working people, you should pick the billionaire.

And in case this wasn't clear, this is just a thought exercise. [/quote]

Whatever. Get over it.[/quote]

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