Painting a giant salmon on the side of a 737: $500,000.00
Learning that pigs can fly: PRICELESS!
Posted on 11/03/2005 12:42:04 PM PST by truth49
Painting a giant salmon on the side of a 737: $500,000.00
Learning that pigs can fly: PRICELESS!
Is the sale of Alaskan salmon a priority of the federal government? Apparently, it is. A $500,000 federal grant was recently used to paint an Alaskan Airlines jet to look like a salmon, in an attempt to boost salmon sales. It seems painting commercial jets is just as important as the war in Iraq, the War on Terror, and disaster relief.
Alaskan Airlines now has a very large, very expensive flying fish, thanks to misspent tax dollars. This flying billboard is only a small part of the tax dollars being spent on convincing people to eat Alaskan salmon. Over the past two years, the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board has spent $29 million in tax dollars on the marketing campaign, and the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute receives $5 million each year for the same purpose.
If Alaskan salmon really needs large flying billboards, that should be an investment of those trying to sell the fish, especially considering all the money our federal government is shelling out already. And who is going to be up at 30,000 feet to see the flying billboard, anyway?
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This news is entering its final life cycle. It was front page a month ago.
The painters were just working for scale.
So, Republicans, how's that "limited government" thingie you've been promising for decades coming along . . . . hmmmmmm?
Dang it, I want money to advertise my business! I didn't know the gubmint would just give it to me! Must call my misrepresentatives right now!
A question. How the hell are you going to see said flying fish airplane when it is 35,000 feet over the ocean flying from Alaska to Seattle, Portland or LAX???? The ONLY ones who will see it are those that ACTUALLY see the plane come and go. How the heck does the rest of the country see it? Oh, right, here on FR in a photo. My bad.
Now, go down the line, point a gun at each one and forcibly take $1,000 from each person. Don't let them spend the $1,000 on a new washer/dryer, the mortgage or a long-awaited Disneyland vacation with the family.
Instead, paint a jet to look like a fish, benefitting suckups who paid off the politicians to prop up their fishing business.
Thanks for all that fiscal restraint, Republicans. We know the 'Rats are brain-damaged - what's your excuse?
everyone at the airport sees it.
Yep.
I read this when it happened and they never mentioned it was taxpayer funded to put the fish on the plane.
This is disturbing.
I said that. Read it again.
Hmmmmm...no, just the people with boarding passes at some gates. And if the gate has windows and the boarding tubes are turned just right.
Still an offensive 'pork' project.
Although, I bet it won't be long before we start hearing stories on Coast to Coast AM about fisherman, minding their own business out in the swamp when this big flying salmon came roaring down at them....
"Pork spending soars to new heights"
Pork spending is down in Egypt and Sudan.
Of course the government is spending so much money on Pork. We're at war, dammit!
(Make sure you get my meaning before you complain that military spending isn't pork.)
Well, obviously, it's the evil white man. We all know that the Native American was the first to practice living in balance with nature....just ask the wooly mammoth.
And it is not true. The money was provided by the the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board. This board is funded by levies on imported seafood and uses the funds to promote domestic seafood.
Alaska Airlines takes flying fish to a whole new level
A local nonprofit agency, the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board, gave Alaska Airlines a $500,000 grant to paint the jet.
USA Plan for Saltonstall-Kennedy Funds: A National Seafood Marketing Fund
FundSenate Appropriations Committee approved a U.S. Commerce Department Budget that includes $20 million for seafood marketing in Alaska. The money will come from the Saltonstall-Kennedy Fund, which is fueled by duties and tariffs levied against foreign seafood imports.
Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board up and running by year end
The pool of money comes from so called Saltonstall Kennedy funds, derived from duties and tariffs on seafood products imported into the U.S.
Oh, the RINOcrats in Congress. Pork spending with the best the socialist democrats have.
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The waste in government is beyond repulsive. It is criminal -- and the Dems of course, want to INCREASE our taxes, along with some RINOs. What do these guys want? A financially-driven revolution?
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