Behold the perfect Right Wing utopia.

This is being reported..... everywhere but I'll send you to MSNBC for reference. The story goes like this. A city offers a fire fighting service to some of the rural families that fall out of its jurisdiction for the bargain basement price of a $75 yearly subscription. This seems like a reasonable proposition. The city is offering a service (that is paid for by its taxpayers) to those outside of the city limits if they are willing to pitch in.  One of those rural families forgot to pay for the service... and then their home caught on fire...... and the fire department showed up and watched the home burn to the ground...... wow.



I understand that city, state and federal services have to be paid for but this seems extremely cruel and unfortunately this seems to be the kind of community that many on the far right want to create. IE We have to privatize everything, the government is always evil, free market.... blah blah.

This reminds me of the endless stories I have heard about insurance companies that attempt to find errors on your applications so they can deny you medical coverage or the vehement push by Republicans to privatize Social Security right before the economy went to shit (that would have worked out real nice wouldn't it?). Privatization is not the answer for critical services like Police, Fire, and I would argue health care. What happened to this family is what will happen in a radically conservative anti tax and government community. Peoples homes burn to the damn ground because they didn't pay a $75 fee.

Is this the kind of country we all want to live in?  Should the police stop and check to make sure you have paid your taxes before they stop someone from killing you? This is disgusting. We should help each other first and check the books later. (and by the way if you are one of those callous pricks that are turning your nose up at this poor guy that lost his home and saying "Fuck him, he should have paid his insurance" I will make sure I remind you when your foolish vision of a world where its "every man for himself" crashes down on your head. Because it will if this crap version of America wins.)

Again I do understand that these services have to be covered but we shouldn't let someones home burn just to encourage others to pay a fee. The firefighters actually stood around and watched this mans home burn to the ground.   We already have this kind of heartless treatment of people in our hospitals. Sure the emergency room will make sure you don't die if you come in the door bleeding to death but if you don't have insurance they will not take care of you beyond that.  We can all either come together and take care of crap like this and take care of each other or we can live in the perfect Right Wing utopia. Bellum omnium contra omnes