Never Mine Sago, We Need to Fine CBS

For an owner of a mine in America, the minimum fine for a safety violation is $60. The maximum is $60,000, a cap imposed by Congress. There has been a request of lawmakers to boost that maximum fine to $220,000.
In contrast to the death and dismemberment of humans by accidents in mines where safety is a third or fourth priority we have the FCC fines for indecency. Offensive instances like Janet Jackson's nipple incident and a show where kids are engaged in an orgy evoke fines of OVER $500,000.00 AND $3.6 million. The FCC brought fines against dozens of CBS stations and affiliates on what regulators called indecent television programming.

Our government is insane. You Rapeublicans and Moral Majority Friends of the Family types can not mandate morality. I'm all for decency in broadcast T.V. that is why we have cable. Cable allows people to engage in the reality of sex drugs and rock n roll without getting fined a million dollars. But seriously why is it that people are dying because a mine owner doesn't pay a few thousand to make the place safe and they get fined a few thousand dollars (they can probably claim it as a loss on their taxes) but a T.V. show gets millions of dollars in fines? Don't we have it backwards? I thought you Rethuglicans had this "sanctity of LIFE" thing. Oh right that only applies to an embryo. Once we are out of the woman we are cannon fodder.

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is an asshat! He should listen to Bill O'Rieley. Now there's a real obscene bit of programming!