"Jay Honeck" wrote:
Does anyone else find it disturbing that the National Weather Service
in the United States is paying out taxpayer money to a government
employee to create a foreign-language web page?

Look folks, what Jay is saying here[1] isn't about Spanish, its about
government excess. Plenty of government abuse of our money is out there
and we shouldn't act like sheep when it happens. Unfortunately I think
Jay missed the target when he used this example.

[1] "What Jay is trying to say" is my deliberate play on the following
dialogue from the movie "The Right Stuff":

"[An argument rages, primarily between Shepard, Glenn, Carpenter and
Cooper]

Scott Carpenter: John's right! Now, whether we like it or not, we're
public figures. Whether we deserve it or not, people are going to look up
to us. We have got a tremendous responsibility here.

Alan Shepard: You cannot tell a pilot what he's doing when he's not
flying!

[Argument continues]

Gus Grissom: Wait a minute, wait a minute!

[turns Glenn toward him]

Gus Grissom: You've got it all wrong, the issue here ain't pussy. The
issue here is monkey.

John Glenn: What?

Gus Grissom: Us. We are the monkey.

Deke Slayton: What Gus is saying is that we're missing the point. What
Gus is saying is that we all heard the rumors that they want to send a
monkey up first. Well, none of us wants to think that they're gonna send
a monkey up to do a man's work. But what Gus is saying is that what
they're trying to do to us is send a man up to do a monkey's work. Us, a
bunch of college-trained chimpanzees!

Gus Grissom: ****in' A, bubba.

Deke Slayton: Alright, so what Gus is saying is that we've got to change
things around here. He's saying that we are pilots. And we know more
about what we need to fly this thing than anybody else. So what we have
to do is to alter the experiment. And what that comes down to is who is
gonna control this thing from here on out.

Gordon Cooper: What Gus is saying here is that we've got to stick
together on this deal."

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