Now this doesn’t make sense to me. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) has a bill on the floor that would prevent the National Weather Service from providing any service which is comparable to a service provided by a private sector company. They’d basically be limited to severe weather warnings and the like:
We have every right to expect these agencies to minimize unnecessary, competitive, and commercial-type activities, and to do the best possible job of warning the public about impending flash floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, and other potentially catastrophic events.
What. The. Hell?
Where is the problem with this? The NWS provides what I’d call a very reasonable service at very little taxpayer cost. It’s one of those agencies that does good work with little overhead.
Why not let them keep doing what they’re doing, and if a private-sector company can provide a better service for a price, let them! Competition and innovation should drive the market, not artificial restrictions on capable agencies!
What’s next? Cutting NASA’s budget even further because Sir Richard Fucking Branson is real close to being able to get people up to that there space station what we got* up in space?
* Santorumized for your protetction
