'Economic stimulus' just took on a entirely new meaning, this time a very low one. Hustler Magazine’s Larry Flint and Joe Francis of the all-so-famous Girl Gone Wild production have a serious agenda; something crucial for their version of ‘economic health’ of America. They are asking the Congress to dish out $5bilion of federal money to the porn industry to support creative entrepreneurship. Of course, irrespective of your biased standpoint on the porn industry, no one can deny them of their constitutional rights. Certainly that is the premise of their argument, in spite of how appalling.
Appalling is a subjective description, please feel free to substitute the word if you so desire. The porn industry’s ingenious idea is to ‘rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America’, and according to one insider, American’s are too depressed to watch porn. I am being presumptuous here but the bailout money supposedly will help flood our neighborhood stores with more useless magazines of naked women next to the Doritos.
Even more disgusting is the increased recruitment of college girls for the late night Girls Gone Wild infomercials. Sorry dudes, I don’t see how that proposition is beneficial to the economic downturn (or anything for that matter).
You know the recession economy is hit a new desperation low when the Larry Flint is driving a hybrid car from California to Washington for a publicity stunt. The auto industry and the banking industry are walking away with billions of taxpayers’ money; I am not too surprised the porn industry is getting in on the action. If 20% of Americans visit porn sites on the job, maybe the Larry Flint’s bailout request should be invested in spyware and firewalls.
The good side of this ridiculous proposition is that the porn industry has saved all of us a new string of pointless bailout disbursements. If they hadn’t pulled this stunt, most of us would never step back to reexamine the bailout circus which had no end in sight. For now, as ridiculous as their intentions are, they have saved us from all the other mismanaged companies who had their eyes set on the ‘free money’, when small businesses across America are fighting tooth and nail to stay afloat. This is the low point of free market capitalism, but in the interest of common sense, I speak on behalf of all Americans when I say, there are enough Girls already Gone Wild in America.
Federal bailout was intended for industries that are core to a country’s Gross Domestic Product, and my best guess is that the porn industry is the farthest away from the core as anything can be.
Nice try.
