Does anyone find it odd that all these resources are expended in this way? To be sure, we want to respond to save lives when we know people are in harm's way. That said, where are our priorities? How many people are in harm's way in a myriad of other ways where expenditure of public funds and volunteer resources could help save them?
I'm not talking about emergency rescues, of course. I'm talking about saving children from poverty, from drug and crime infested neighborhoods, from failed schools.
One of the things that used to give me a lift was to see emergency rescue people do their jobs and save people. Somehow, I don't get that feeling very much anymore.