Why are US taxpayers flipping the bill for the missing Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett?

Question

This is BS. I had a friend whose been missing for 5 years, without a trace. One search was done in a twelve hour period and that was it, never anything else. The police basically said they did all they could do with the resources available and that any further search would need to be conducted privately. The family couldn't afford it, but lost everything trying to find him. Now we got a multi-millionaire, who does countless life-threatening things for fun, he gets lost, and we, the US taxpayer have to pay a reported $200,000 a day searching for him? Shouldn't the family or his richie friends be financing all this, or at least most of it?

Answer 1

You are 100% right. And by the way Heny the whatever a family being stranded in the snow has nothing in common with a millionaire flying in his toy stunt plane, without a flight plan might I add, into oblivion. Have they searched an area the size of Missouri, inch by inch, for the missing girl from BYU? Are there Coast Guard submarines in the water for her? I'm not saying they're not putting forward an effort to look for her but is it a $200,000 + a day taxpayer fueled effort, uh no. Again to reiterate, Americans being concered for trapped people of natural catastrophies is WAY MORE IMPORTANT THAN LOOKING FOR LOST IN THE PLAYGROUND MULTI-MILLIONAIRES WHO VANISH BEING ADVENTUROUS, just ask the peoples of New Orleans. Oh yeah we can't, because they really haven't been helped yet. I bet a few of them could use one $200,000 day effort.

Answer 2

Perhaps taxpayers are concerned for the safety of an American just like those people hiking in Oregon last winter and they got stuck in the snow. Taxpayer money went to find them. The dad died trying to save his family but if it weren't for the efforts of the publically financed rescue people the whole family would have perished. That family was no way rich.

Answer 3

I agree.



But, it's also a chance for bureaucrats to be seen on TV (and be filmed looking serious & tired from searching.. and that your tax dollars are being used/spent on men that can be heroes), and feed the EASY-TV news of file-footage, and sending a crew for the 10-min. press conference... that's what our USA news does, these days. This guy's got celebrity - and that feeds itself. Sorry to read about a friend of yours... but, there's 2 standards, as you KNOW from watching Al Gore, Jr.s junior drive 100mph on drugs (for what? the 3-4th time?) and walk-away like it was a parking ticket. An unknown frat-boy, without any $$$ behind him might get jail for years... even Eagles' coaches sons are in deeper than Gore junior.



That's the way it is.

Answer 4

you have an concept of the dimensions of the Nevada desolate tract, via observing the action picture "Resident Evil IV". it is like looking a corpse in a community greater beneficial than Syria... He died because of the fact the standard explorators of the XIXth century, consistently attempting to succeed in the bounds of the impossible... i think this experience will supply some proposal to Hollywood action picture directors... could he relax in peace...

Answer 5

absolutly. I guess they consider wealthy people more important so important in fact why should they pay their own way? Why not just make the slaves pay for it.



And why not spend money to find regular joes who are missing? well there are tons of slaves why waste resources to find one when there are tons of them to take his place in the work force?. This the impression I get based on the stories I read and hear about.



By the way slaves dont own anything, the wealthy rulers and elites believe they own you so they own everything else including your money, so in their eyes they are spending their own money to find this nuthead.



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