"Dave" wrote in message
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:52:40 -0500, "Vito" said:

Santorum is the Senator who has introduced a bill, twice, to make all
weather
products issued by the National Weather Service fee based. Currently
information issued by the Weather Service is free to the public.

How dare he try to interfere with my God-given right to belly up to the
public trough with the other little piggies.


Wow. You really thought that one through. Explain to us how using a service
that you pay for is "bellying up to the public trough". That's correct. Your
tax dollars pay for the NWS. Mr Public Service is advocating suspending your
access to the service that you pay for, to sell said services to companies
that can then charge you for the information that you could normally get
"for free". The quotation marks are there for a reason, since you are
actually paying for the service now, what Senator Greedy is advocating that
you pay for the service twice, so that companies like accuweather can make a
buck. Maybe what you're REALLY objecting to is Santorum's ability to
say incredibly stupid things to a large audience. Jealous?



John Cairns