A "Legal" 99.9 For Lawrence?

[Dan Billings]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>
To: <billo@shoreham.net>; <RogerKola@aol.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: A "Legal" 99.9 For Lawrence?

> Well, Newt Gingrich did talk about abolishing the FCC.  When you would
like to abolish a
> government program and can't get away with doing so, you sabotage it
instead -- cut its
> budget so that it can't do what it's supposed to do and appoint people to
its board who are
> opposed to the program.  Then, when the agency doesn't do its job, you use
it as an
> example of the claim that government programs don't work.

Anyone have any numbers on the FCC budget?  I would be shocked if it has
actually been reduced in the last 20 years.  I bet it has increased very
year.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine