>>2014598They do spend money to save non-rich people all the time. Like just search "coast gaurd rescue news" and you'll get a good chunk of stories just from the last month of randos getting saved. This whole narrative about "why are they spending their budget on rich people" came about in the first place because of that whole migrant boat fiasco that happened around the time seagate did, but that was in the damn mediterranean and completely outside the coast guard's jurisdiction and responsibility.
