You do understand how insurance works, don’t you?
You all share a risk, and when eveyone pays a premium, the risk is divided among the participants so when something bad does happen, the individual is protected.
This individual was foolish enough to expect everyone else to pay for his safety, and then compounded his foolishness by not installing indoor sprinklers to compensate for refusing FD protection.
Again, have you read the parable about the Ant and the Grasshopper? You are demanding that the Grasshopper be rewarded for his foolishness.
I support SMALL government and Personal Responsibility, you are supporting a LARGE goverment and an Entitlement society.
I’m not demanding anything. In this situation, considering the area and population, I think they should have helped. I’m not saying this is how it should be everywhere, I’m responding to the thread title.
This isn't so much directed at you but at a country that has lost its mind.
I don't know what anyone else is demanding but I thought this was the United States of America. The America I grew up in provided for certain basic functions of government and police and fire protection were always seen as fundamental. I am stunned that in the 21st century we apparently have local governments that are incapable of organizing basic services, and fire protection is a basic service that is for the good of the entire community.
This is why we can't have nice things anymore, this is why the rest of the world (even as it collapses... or so we are told) is laughing at us. We Americans get the worst return for our taxes in the civilized world. It isn't so much about this one guy who may or may not be a crank, it's about the society the rest of us want to live in and I don't want my country, state, county or city to check my neighbors' records before basic services are provided.
Whose crazy idea was it that fire protection, FIRE PROTECTION! should be an optional subscription service and that local governments should or could be organized in that manner? Europeans pay insane amounts of taxes and get ridiculous amounts of government service, a lot of it complete junk. We also pay stupidly high taxes and in return we still get nickel and dimed over the most basic government services.
This is the USA for crying out loud, we should be able to outdo the rest of the world in our sleep in terms of quality and efficiency. But no, we've "advanced" to the point where the motto of our nation in public and private relations is "Screw You". Where did Reagan's Shining City on Hill go? How can we be a beacon to the world when what the rest of the world is going to get out of this story is that America can't figure out how to provide fundamental government services without checking to see if people are paid up first?