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On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:03:09 -0400, Jack Stein
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On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:13:57 -0400, Jack Stein
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J. Clarke wrote:

If the cost per taxpayer was unduly great I might agree with that.
But
come on, half a cent?
I'm the breadwinner for my 2 person household so it would be a whole
penny for me.
Oh, booh hooh.
This half a cent figure is bogus, someone on the wreck just made the
damned number up, and now it's quoted like a factoid? SAR costs money
whether or not it is used. When it is used for real, it isn't used for
practice, so the cost is not much more than if no rescue occurred. Not
"much more" is of course, relative.

I'm sure that Airbus A330 and crew wasn't cheap.

My point is the half cent cost figure was made up to make a point, and
suddenly thats the cost. Hell, it could be $5 for all anyone knows.
At 1/2 cent each, the cost would be about $1.5 MILLION. Possible, but
then someone is making a bundle...

1/2 cent times 6B is $30M. China and Bangladesh have to pay too.

The point is that it's not the amount of money per person. It's about
taking
responsibility.

Precisely! And that attitude carries over to the rest of life. The
Sunderland children are getting a great education on saying 'screw everyone
else, If I want to drive drunk, I will'.