I love the Juan story and I love the bitterness with which he’s attacking his former lover, but, frankly, I’m tired of it.
I wish it would result in the government stopping the funding for NPR.
Then they could stop all funding for the arts. Art should live or die on its own merit.
In fact, I’m against most government funding of various projects. Usually it’s stupid. Often it’s harmful. And it’s dangerous, because given a grant to study something, people will usually find the results the grantor wants.
Sumpin’ like that.
Nina - points out how much unions are spending on the elections this year. obama/dem’s, media are claiming “dark groups”, business interests are trying to affect/buy this election; Nina points out how ridiculous their proposition is.
I totally agree with you, altura!
In fact, I hope the new Republican majority in the House (fingers crossed for the Senate, too) reviews all spending and where its going, and starts making drastic cuts.
Soros’ organizations should NOT be getting any tax $s:
Along With NPR, Soros Groups Get Millions in Taxpayer Funds
National Legal & Policy Center ^ | October 21, 2010 | Peter Flaherty
Posted on Friday, October 22, 2010 9:10:34 AM by jazusamo
Excerpt from the article:
National Public Radio’s firing of Juan Williams and its acceptance of a $1.8 million gift from left-wing billionaire George Soros’ foundation have put the spotlight on the NPR’s taxpayer subsidy. What is less well known is that Soros’ private foundations also receive millions in taxpayer funds.
Not only that, but the projects that taxpayers fund through Soros’ foundations appear to violate a federal prohibition on the use of taxpayer funds to promote drug use and prostitution. Our efforts to expose this misuse of tax money in 2007 were met with hostility by the State Department and disinterest in Congress.
In October 2007, NLPC asked the Inspector General of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to investigate the possibility that the agency was violating federal law. Our request came in the wake of the publication of our Special Report titled Soros Groups Receive Taxpayer Funds: State Department Collaborates in Skirting of U.S. Law Against Promoting Drug Use and Prostitution. Click here or on the image to download a 12-page pdf version.
NLPC’s obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) showing that between 2001 and 2007 USAID awarded grants totaling $18.3 million to the Open Society Institute, the Soros Foundation Kazakhstan and the Alliance for Open Society International, all Soros-affiliated groups. In addition, USAID and the US State Department have given millions of dollars to Soros’ nonprofits to operate education programs and other “civil society” initiatives in various nations. From 2001 to 2007 USAID and State Department grants to the Soros nonprofit network totaled at least $25.6 million.
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