We must Save the Climbers!

At all costs? I'm rooting for these guys on Mt Hood as much as the next guy but at what point does a person take responsibility for their own fate? It always amazes me that unlimited resources are available to extricate someone from a predicament they themselves entered into willingly. Apparently the feds and military are rendering assistance as well as the State of Oregon. Who pays all these people anyway? I'm sure it is a comfort to the family that everything possible if being done to rescue them but it sure raises some eyebrows about regular people who are not mountain climbers and might need some assistance also.