Porn industry seeks obscene bailout

January 11th, 2009 | economy, humor, politics

Even the Onion couldn’t make satire like this (except this is real):

The governments 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.

Porn industry seeks its own stimulus package - Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca

Aside from making puns about a stimulus package, I do have one question: If indeed the government is going to spend trillions on rescuing the economy, does it not make sense to have the stimulus as broadly diversified across industries as possible ? After all, the consumers of houses and autos are everywhere - not just on Wall Street or in Detroit.

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