"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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that have
risked capital and effort to provide a service needed by the public

What privately owned weather satellites orbit the Earth today?

Quite a few, actually. Communications mainly, but not exclusively.

Who paid for
the weather monitoring stations across the country? Who pays for the
weather ballons?

Government, but it doesn;t necessarily have to be that way. Government paid
for them, but government builds/creates NOTHING.


That's *my* capital being risked there.


Bureaucracy at it's best. People keep demanding more, then wonder why we're
in the state we are.