No, you and Clint said that code testing was a "welfare program," and
you're both wrong.

73 de Larry, K3LT


well, if you listen to fellow PCTA types then the only conclusion
is that it IS a governement subsidation.... JUST like the farm subsidies
where the government artifically keeps the prices of food propped up
by buying all the excess crop that isn't sold at a given price instead
of letting the free market determine it.

In terms of ham radio, when the PCTA types say "it's the only
incentive to get people interested in CW, therefore we have to
make people learn it" you are essentially saying "if that product
(morse code) isn't purchased willingly at market price (as
to whether or not the individual is INTERESTED in learning it
in the first place) then the governement (FCC) will subsidize it
by purchasing the excess that doesn't sell (make the remainder
of the hams who don't want to learn it do so against thier will).

Pretty clear analogy.

If you look at it as a welfare program, then all the same it is
equally deserving of criticism.... if a system can't make it's own
way and sell itself and perpetuate itself, you never do it any
good by artificially keeping it alive, it'll never stand on it's own
two feet proverbially speaking.

The government, by the way, STILL buys insande amounts
of helium due to the strategic value of blimbs & derigables
and pumps it underground in northern texas. Yes, you read
that right.. WWI technology is being subsidized due to the
fact that it was ONCE useful, but since it's STILL on the
books as a government hand out, it's STILL purchased in
mass quantities

Cite: Martin L. Gross, "Washington Racket: Government
Waste from A to Z"

Clint
KB5ZHT