Shall we taxpayers bail out the porn industry?

[Patrick H. Crowe]

I can hardly imagine a more entertaining request, can you? The auto industry fools arrive on their private jets wearing fancy suits and carrying tin cups. A craven hoax if I ever saw one! Yet their total BS get listened to, didn't it? They admit (sort of) they have been and are grossly incompetent. We all know they are VASTLY overpaid but they have the balls to ask (demand?) that we hard working stiffs bail them out?

Who could possibly mock them better than Larry Flint and the CEO of Girls Gone Wild? What a treat! Too good to be true, isn't it?

Patrick H. Crowe

 

[Waxman]

Just give taxpayers their $250k each for a bailout.

I'd know what to do with mine!

 

[phred113]

I know I have been busy lately and not spending as much, but I had no idea the effect it would have......

 

[pitzerwm]

I would hate to see the porn industry go away. A little porn is a good thing) So I vote to give them a little.

 

[soapy]

I would be afraid that Congress would want to be in charge of quality control.

 

[lag]

Why do I feel no smarter for reading this thread?

 

[I.B. Washincars]

It amazes me how low some can stoop for attention...sad, very sad.

 

[Greg Pack]

http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2009/01/08/flynt_porn_bailout.html

Porn industry seeks $5 billion federal bailout
By KEVIN MODESTI
LA DAILY NEWS
Thursday, January 08, 2009
LOS ANGELES — In an announcement that launched a thousand unprintable puns, adult-entertainment moguls Larry Flynt and Joe Francis said Wednesday that they are asking Washington for a $5 billion federal bailout, claiming that the porn business is suffering from the soft economy.

Francis insisted in a phone interview that this is no joke or publicity stunt, though his tone suggested otherwise.“The government’s handing out money to the auto industry,” Francis, producer of the “Girls Gone Wild” video series, said on the phone from his Santa Monica office. “Why shouldn’t it hand some to an industry the nation could not live without?”

The request, Francis said, was being made in a letter to Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass, and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The $5 billion figure, he said, reflects the decline in U.S. adult-entertainment- industry revenue from $18 billion three years ago.

If porn producers are feeling the effects of what one wire service called “the sagging economy,” the pain might be felt most acutely in the San Fernando Valley. In 2007, revenue from more than 200 Valley-based adult-content companies was estimated at $1 billion.

One adult-film star from the Los Angeles area said she is feeling the pinch.

The actress who performs as Jenna Presley said her Web site has seen a 20 percent decline in customers, about 1,000 of whom pay $19.99 a month to watch the 22-year-old perform online..........