That's certainly an option, perhaps even a good one. But, that's not
what is being discussed here. The proposed bill is just more of the
welfare and freebies that fiscal conservatives seem equally unable to
resist handing out when they get their hands on the purse strings.
They just hand it out to different people than the liberals.

--

Roger Long



"Dave" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 03 May 2005 17:41:25 GMT, "Roger Long"
said:

It's not that the lunch isn't free that I'm complaining about. It's
paying for it twice.

Coupla ways to solve that. First, turn over the entire operation,
including
the forecasting, to private enterprise. If that doesn't appeal, put
guvmint
distribution of the forecasts (radio transmission and the computer
software
"voice" reading the information) in private hands. In either case
you're
only paying once to have the information created and distributed.
But you're
removing the inefficiencies of (i) guvmint employees, and (ii) union
work
rules.