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A fund for the families at Scaled Composites A fund has been set up to help the families of those killed and injured at Mojave. If any of you are interested, you can find out more at the July 29th entry here.
Scaled Family Support Fund
c/o Scaled Composites
1624 Flight Line
Mojave, CA. 93501
Acct # 04157-66832 / Wire xfer ABA Routing # 0260-0959-3 (Bank of America) /
Please make your check payable to “Scaled Family Support Fund”.
This is not a tax deductible donation.
Many will fall on the road to the stars. We must remember them as best we can.
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A fund for the ‘families of those killed and injured at Mojave.’ Sounds like some kind of left-wing plot to me. Next thing we know people will be expecting healthcare based on need rather than ability to pay. Where will it end…
Sean,
It does not appear that anyone has yet called for using police, courts, and the IRS to collect for the families. Rather, I believe the appeal was for people who would voluntarily spend their own money.
If you want to dig into your pocket for health care or whatever, do feel free. It’s your pocket. The objection that most here would have, comes when you would stick your hand into someone else’s pocket without asking permission first.
But I suspect you may have already known that.
If health care, in a broad sense, is based purely on an individual’s ability to pay – or individual acts of charity – this would mean I would most probably not have lived past the age of two. As an infant I, of course, had no finances, and at this particular point in time neither did my parents. The logic of your argument would have condemned me to death.
I like to think of it as been like hitch hiking (a sadly reduced affair now): I cannot repay those individuals who gave me a lift, but I can give lifts to others.
On a wider note, to what degrees do those here who subscribe to a liberal, laissez-fair economic beliefs abide by their own convictions? Do those individuals from the UK utilise the National Health Service, travel on trains, and call on the police…. Indeed, why should there be need for governmental institutions at all, when economics is arbiter all? Well, I will continue to explore the site and maybe I will find out!
Best, Sean.
Hitching in whose car? If it’s your car that you bought and paid for, that’s one thing. If it’s my car, that’s something else entirely.
I do not understand the point you are making here, nor how it relates to my other points.
Best, Sean.
your services to the poor were very excellent