re: #136 Zimriel

Volcano monitoring falls under the protection of life and property, which is absolutely in the mandate of government. Other examples: epidemic disease control, pest control, flood control, hurricane monitoring, and asteroid monitoring.

So does medical care and food safety and building codes and life insurance and on and on. Government doesn’t exist to protect our lives from everything that threatens it, it exist to protect our rights. It odes not exist to hand us safety on a silver platter — that is up to us. The failure to grasp that moral principle is what keeps putting thieves and liars like Obama and Jindal into office.