G-d forbid I want to make a call
Posted by: Adam D. Probolsky | 04/16/2008 9:41 PM
I don't know Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) or Rep. Jerry Costello (D-Ill.) but I have a feeling that we would not get a long very well.
It seems that they want to criminalize the act of making a cel phone call in flight. It is so outrageous that I find it hard to believe they really believe in the legislation.
"The public doesn't want to be subjected to people talking on their cellphones on an already over-packed airplane," said Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), lead co-sponsor of the bill. "However, with Internet access just around the corner on U.S. flights, it won't be long before the ban on voice communications on in-flight planes is lifted. Our bill, the HANG UP Act, would ensure that financially strapped airlines don't drive us towards this noisome disruption in search of further revenue."
I wish DeFazio and Costello would go back to being good little Democrats and finding ways to raise my taxes and let me check my voice mail in-flight.
The 'Clinton' loans were done long before this mess & would have had a significant impact long ago...