Sad

Libertarians and more conservative types would suggest that citizens not be too dependent on government services. There's a reason:

PITTSBURGH (AP) - With her boyfriend in severe abdominal pain, Sharon Edge called 911 for an ambulance in the early morning hours of Feb. 6. Heavy snow was falling—so heavy it would all but bring the city to a standstill—and Curtis Mitchell needed to go to a hospital.

"Help is on the way," the operator said.

It never arrived.

It took 30 hours for someone to actually get to his house, but by then he was dead. Medics got within 1/4 of a mile of the house, twice, but didn't have the fortitude to walk that last bit. So Mitchell died.

He died ....... waiting for the government to help him.

Don't make the same mistake.

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