The new story on MSNBC and from the St. Petersburg Times is that the Coast Guard spent $1.6 Million dollars on 2 missing NFL players and 2 other friends.

Now, here is my opinion. If those players were my family, boyfriend, best friend, etc, I would want the Coast Guard to spend money on trying to find them. And also, I would be some what aggrivated if the news critisized the Coast Guard for spending so much money and for looking so hard. Yes, yes. I get the fact that 'the economy' is not doing so hot(I am fully understanding that because I can not find a job), but I do not think it is absurd to find 4 human beings who are lost at sea and slowly dying from dehydration and hypothermia(if not already dead). $1.6 million...I think my family, boyfriend and friends are worth so much more than that(divide that by four and the Coast Guard spent $400,000 searching for each one). I would hope I am worth more than $400,000 dollars to people. And to NFL players who were found resucued, that $1.6 mil is most likely less than they make in a year, so before the newspapers go critisizing the amoutn of time, money and effort to find these four missing people, they need to think if that was them...how much is their lif worth? I know I am worth way more than $400,000, and that my family of 4 is worth way more than $1.6 million.

So, I think the $1.6 million spent was worth every penny espcially since they found one man alive. One life to me, is priceless. That is some of the best $1.6 million this country has spent in a while.


Katie
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