View from the Valley: January 2009 Archives
Daily News staffer Kevin Modesti has reported that adult entertainment tycoons Joe Francis and Larry Flynt want $5 billion of taxpayer money for their industry, in order to stimulate it through hard times. There, I said it.
It seems preposterous if serious, and it's just a publicity grab for this Valley-based industry, right? Still, how exactly does GM claim it has more of a right to taxpayer money than Larry Flynt. One makes some obscenely bad products, while the other makes products that at least pass the obscenity test. It was GM that sold us the Hummer, and which now pledges to be chaster in its future designs if we can save it now.
AIG alone has rifled through our pockets to the tune of $145 billion, beyond all the other bailouts that have been occurring. If Joe Francis and our suffering local adult-entertainment workers want a mere $5 billion more, I'm not altogether sure they're any more unworthy of it than the other folks who are managing to profit off their own losses.
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