Santorum's Latest Corporate Welfare Bill
He just introduced a bill that would force the National Weather Service to quit providing forcasts and various other data for free on their websites, etc. His 'logic' is that it makes business too difficult for AccuWeather or The Weather Channel.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/co...a_wx_0421.html Quote:
On a completely unrelated note, Accuweather has donated $3,550 to Santorum. If this Bill makes it through they will get quite a return on that investment. It's pathetic that a Senator can be bought for less than 5 grand. |
And after noticing this on my yahoo news, I wrote a letter not an hour ago to my reps stating my opposition as their constituant to this bill. It will go out with the morning mail.
If you do not know your reps name and address, Here is the House of Representative search feature by zip code Here is the Senate representatives listing Email is rarely effective, though feel free to use that to dash off a quick note. Now. But also follow it up with a real letter if you have the time. As a Florida resident who depends on the NOAA website for Hurrican information, as well as historic data which I use for architecture, I am very concerned. (The bill will not affect Hurrican forecasting, but will cut off access to historic data and meterological information that many hobbyists depend on. We paid for this information. Our taxes [ay for the NOAA, and we foot the bill. Now we are being asked to foot the bill twice by paying to have the data collected, and then paying private companies for access, when they get it in bulk for little money. To make an analogy, would you pay to buy a car, and then like to pay every time you need to drive it? We paid for the information, and now we are being told we also need to pay to use it. Here is the bill |
That's a shame. Odds are it won't pass, though, at least at any luck.
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what's funny is that most of the data these companies use is from the National Weather service...(I much prefer the weather.gov forcasts myself)
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This is one of the most idiotic proposals I've heard in a long, long time.
We've already paid for this information with our tax dollars. If Santorum has his way, we'll have to pay for it again. So much for being against high taxes. So is this why Pennsylvanians elected him? |
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A Barry Myers (VP at AccuWeather -- maybe Joel's son?) donated $5000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee. He and his wife also made additional donations of at least $2250 to the NRCC and Santorum. Joel also gave $250 to the Republican Federal Committee of Pennsylvania. A Peggy Myers in the same city gave Santorum $700. By my count, that's $11,750 to Santorum and/or the GOP (but excluding Arlen Spector and candidates I don't recognize). So cheer up -- maybe it does take more than $5000 to buy a Senator! |
Whoa I thought this was a thread about "the sometimes frothy, usually slimy, amalgam of lubricant, stray fecal matter, and ejaculate that leaks out of the receiving partner's anus after a session of anal intercourse." What's all this about a Senator? Is this serious?
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though you woudl have every reason to think that santorum=santorum, sadly there is also an actual far-right senator from the state in which i live, one whose idiocy had reached a kind of virtuoso level. this absurd proposal is but one example. personally, i prefer the santorum=santorum situation, which would require that the actually existing senator be booted out of office leaving behind only the frothy speckled substance in the mind of the savage love readership, and maybe in that of the "public" more generally.
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