I keed, of course. This sort of an issue goes well beyond the realm of public vs. private or taxes and government. This is an issue of humanity and those who don't have it.
I would like to think that even the world's most cold-hearted, anarchistic, all-public-works-are-the-devil conservative would look at this story, see people sitting idly by while others suffer. **** orders, man. There was a time when people saw a fire and everyone around came by with their buckets to help. Not because they'd get paid, not so they can expect others to do the same if their home caught fire, but because its the right ****ing thing to do. That's something that gets lost in the entitlements of the insane left and the pompous elitism of the extreme right.
This is almost on par with that story about EMTs in New York that (going off of memory here) didn't help a pregnant woman because they were on break. The woman and her baby died.
A much more extreme example? Yes. Exact same principle? Yes.
For crying out loud, they were on the scene and sat by doing nothing. Meanwhile, a family loses a home, a lot of their history and all of their pets die a slow, painful death.
