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Ways NPR Wastes Money
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Talk_Dude said:
There are no prohibitions to Congress funding non-commercial broadcast facilities. Especially as identified by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.
By your interpretation of the Constitution, Medicare and Social Security should be repealed. You won't get much support for that.
But there are three branches of government. Checks and balances. If any branch exceeds its power, the others have the power to intercede.
You won't get much support for that now, but that doesn't mean that there weren't constitutionalist opponents to Social Security in 1935.
TheBigA said:
No. It's not. The Constitution is a document of negative liberties. Anything the federal government is not specifically permitted to do it is forbidden to do. Yes, this means that 90% of everything they do now is unconstitutional. It's obviously not realistic to repeal all of this stuff, but it still doesn't make it right.
TheBigA said:
That's a major red herring. Without getting into the political aspects that would get this thread moved to TIO, Medicare and Social Security aren't the least bit comparable to funding pork barrel projects like LPFM stations in select Representatives' constituencies. With the LPFM's, based on how few people actually listen to them, they aren't "popular" programs like Medicare and Social Security. They're pork, nothing more. They're money stolen from the Treasury through riders and amendments that enable incumbents in Congress to buy votes by spreading Federal money around their districts. They have noting to do with serving anyone's welfare, except for the incumbent Congressman looking to buy more votes until he retires to a cushy job as a lobbyist.
Talk_Dude said:
Funding for LPFM? Have I missed out on something? Where do I get in line?
LPFMs are built by churches, by people who form a not-for-profit organization... even if it a bit of a sham corporation... but I fail to see where pork flows in LPFMs.
Share with me. Maybe I can afford to control one after all.
Silkie said:
Amen to that. She's about as worthless, no.... harmful as they get. She should be paying NPR to work there instead of them paying her for all the damage she's caused to their image lately. Member stations have been putting up with her B.S. for quite some time now. Now the public has a great idea of how stupid she actually is. Snide comments and poor thinking before she speaks is what she's all about. She, like several at NPR itself, have the idea that they are great people on the hill and all of the little people should just put up with them. Comments like this show her true side: http://d8.allthingsd.com/20100602/vivian-schiller-session/ I'm hoping the tide it turning.
Sadly, the member stations that pay huge bills for programming to Ms. Schiller's company are the ones that will suffer in funding from her verbal abuses. She needs to go, and go NOW.
Yup. LPFMs don't get a dime (for the most part).
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