US Senator proposes to ban NOAA from providing free weather information

"Sport Pilot" wrote in message
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Mike Rapoport wrote:
What does liberal or conservative have to do with this issue. He is
pandering to commercial interests. That makes him a whore.

No. Actually Santorium is doing his job as a conservative. Less
government means that private business would do this.

No. If the private business were providing all of the data from scratch,
your point might hold. But AccuWeather (the company who bought this bill)
obtains their data from the NWS. The NWS still has to do the work; the bill
simply mandates a middle-man, blocking the people who have already paid for
the data from getting it at no additional cost.

That's hardly a true conservative attitude. Granted, those who call
themselves conservative these days, aren't very much any more. But Mike's
characterization is more apt than any "liberal vs conservative" take on the
issue.

I do find it amusing that you would initially say that "Santorum is a
liberal", but that he is "doing his job as a conservative". I guess that's
just par for the course on Usenet.

Pete