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Another reason to question exactly who the government serves

I considered posting an extended commentary about the recent introduction of a bill aimed at stopping the publicly funded National Weather Service from publishing in easily accessible and understandable form their data and forecasts, but burnout slowed me down.

Instead, I recommend you read this post at Centerfield: And the Winner,...

Perhaps more later on this, because it is an unintentional metaphor for the Republican Party and how it caters to the interests of those who have money over those who do not.

Is that freedom?

Is that liberty?

The public has already PAID for this data, for the analysis, for the predictions.

Yet... It is proposed that the data, the analysis, and the predictions should NOT be made publicly available in an easily accessible form so that private corporations can make more money by using this data (the companies in question are already profitable).

Think about it a while.

Is the government still "of the people, by the people, and for the people"?

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