Double Taxation
May 31st, 2005 at 8:25 am by Susie
Corporate welfare pretending to be a free market. So what else is new?
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), the Senate’s third-ranking Republican, is pushing a bill that critics say would force the Weather Service to disseminate much of its data only to private companies.
The bill, these opponents contend, would limit the public’s access to user-friendly weather information and require that people go to a commercial weather company to get any meaningful interpretation of raw climate data.
But the bill’s supporters say the Weather Service could still make information available to the public, and they praise the measure for seeking to restrict what they say is unfair government competition.
Santorum, who faces a tough re-election fight next year, makes little secret that he is in part trying to protect the weather companies based in his home state, including AccuWeather.
“I’ve got about 1,000 jobs in Pennsylvania and 14 weather companies, believe it or not, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” Santorum told a local radio station recently. “That’s how they make their money, in providing these services. And we don’t think that the Weather Service, which does a fine job . . . should be doing this job.”
Listen, Little Ricky. The National Weather Service works for us. You’re suggesting we pay twice for the same information?
You’re such a whore.
And he introduced the measure just two days after receiving a couple thousand bucks from AccuWeather–he’s not only a whore, but a cheap one.
Ricky is a thief, not a whore. At least a whore provides something for the money he or she gets. Santorum would never be that honest.
It follows the way things have been going: privatize the federal government. Halliburton runs the military; Insurance Cos run health care; Wall Street runs Social Security; polluters run the EPA.
Who needs a country “of the people, by the people and for the people” when you can have government “of the few, by the few and for the few”
Do these people ever READ Lincoln? Or Christ, for that matter?
Greed is on the march. What’s the point of human suffering if you can’t make a buck off it?
He speaks so coherently with all those corporate dicks in his mouth.
Didn’t Reagan try to privatize the Weather Service?
I hope Santorum is equally successful.