[Elecraft] possible cataclysmic blow to amateur radio

[Howard K2HK]

Is the following an urban legend or has it some validity? I do not subscribe to CQ mag so can not confirm its appearance there. If true it would be a cataclysmic blow to amateur radio.
 
 
Fellow Amateur Radio Operators, If you don't subscribe to CQ magazine, in the April
Issue (pg 28) is an article that is a bit disturbing. The
article was written by Professor Emil Heisseluft who
is currently in Geneva, Switzerland, consulting with
his European colleagues at the Large Hadron Collider
on his specialty, the Higgs bosom. Professor
Heisseluft obtained this information while on a trip to
Washington, DC and the halls of congress. 
I will give you a short recap. 
Draconian cuts in the federal budget for FY2012
portend significant staffing cuts in the FCC that will
drastically impact the Amateur Radio and Amateur
Satellite Services. Among other things, operators
using the 160-6 meter bands will be limited to
operating on odd or even days of the week, depending
on the numeral in their callsign. If the number is even
you get even numbered days and odd, odd number
days. 
New-issue vanity callsigns will become a thing of the
past along with special event callsigns. The wait time
for reissuance of a callsign for a "Silent Key" will be
extended from two to five years. 
This will be imposed without the usual Notice of
Proposed Rule Making because of the emergency
nature of the matter. 
Interesting. When this goes into effect I would not be
able to talk to another Ham Radio Operator in the
U.S. with an odd
callsign. Emergency communications on HF would
become a problem along with HF net activities.