Porn needs a bailout???

Listen: here we go…

So Larry Flint and and Joe Francis (the classy fellas that run Hustler Magazine and Girls With Low Self Esteem), have requested a 5 Million dollar bailout from the Federal Government, saying ““the US government should actively support the adult industry’s survival and growth, just as it feels the need to support any other industry cherished by the American people.”

Where should we begin… let me think… let me think…  the problem here is this: there are an equal amount of dirty liberals that read this blog as there are right wing nut jobs, so i’ll just throw something out there and piss someone off, surely. 

I think the best question to ask ourselves is simply “are you effing kidding me?”  Now, i’m pretty against the auto bailout because i tend to believe that if you are going to believe in Capitalism (and the jury’s still out on my opinion on that) then you have to believe that if you make crappy cars that break down, and people stop buying them because they know the cars will break down, then you lose the Capitalism gamble.  Nonetheless, the auto industry was bailed out, and so were the upstanding and morally strict Wall Street Banks, so here we are.  

This obviously opened the doors for every looney who is losing money to come crawling to the Fed’s and ask to be helped out of the crummy business they have been running.   Enter Larry and Joe.  The business of objectifying women and hurting families is in trouble.  Maybe more people have found God in trying times, maybe husbands are realizing that the family needs to eat more than he needs to have “man-time” in the basement so he’s stopped spending money on the DVD’s and websites. Either way, how can the porn industry going under do any bad to anyone? I know my life would have been a bit easier had porn never entered it!

Enter “what about the thousand’s of people working in the porn industry?” plea.

hmmmmm. actually something that makes me think.  Sure they are making a living doing something pretty bad for the moral society, but i threw people out of a Casino for a couple years, and if i hadn’t i wouldnt have been able to support my wife though her last year of college.  How was that job any different than being a porn key grip guy?  

i land on not bailing out the industry, in the same way that i landed on not bailing out the auto industry or Wall Street.  At some point we need to look at the moral side of this country and make steps toward a more centered morality. “but what you think is moral is different than what i think is moral”  true, but this is my blog, so i win!

Let’s discuss, shall we?