We all pay for it because it saves 1000s of lives each year and billions of dollars.....your life included. Unless you don't want to know about the wind shear and problems for the airlines that YOU fly on. bill Hogan Mitch Cardwell wrote: >I think this is foolish and Santorum is a tool, but I couldn't help but >notice your remark: "free weather information is a necessity for many." >If it's a necessity then it has value, they ought to pay for it and >they are, through their taxes. The problem is, so am I and I have >absolutely zero need for it. We paid for the infrastructure, but the >Feds could sell that off to a private entity to reimburse us for that >and then only those who need weather data would have to pay for it. > >Why should my tax dollars be funding free weather data for the >airlines, tv stations and the Weather Channel? > >Mitch > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.