The CPB and misappropriating funds
Kelly forwarded me a buddies blog, and ragged me about not updating mine, so here is my latest rant.
One of the guys on my team listens to NPR out of UNC Chapel Hill. It is a very liberal station. I am not happy that my taxes helpp run WUNC. If it accepts federal funds, it should not have a PETA section of its office. Even if it is liberal, it should not represent the radical fringe of the left. So I went on to the GAO's website and dug through their numbers, and was very disturbed about where our money goes.
Department of the Treasury
Customs Service, Air and Marine Interdiction $198
Community Development Financial Institutions $115
Interagency Crime and Drug Enforce. Task Force $92
Total Department of the Treasury $405
Department of Veterans Affairs
V.A. Health Care Facilities Construction $398
Total Department of Veterans Affairs $398
Other Agencies and Activities
Agency for International Development $3,390
Assistance for Eastern Europe $402
Assistance for Former Soviet Union $484
African Development Fund $57
Appalachian Regional Commission $109
Commission on Civil Rights $9
Corporation for National and Community Service $433
Corporation for Public Broadcasting $425
National Endowment for the Arts $113
National Endowment for the Humanities $125
Federal funds make up 12.7 percent of WUNC’s(NPR, Chapel Hill) broadcasting and 83.3% comes from contributions. The station could make up the other 12% easily enough or reformat to make their broadcasting more cost effective. The federal funding for most stations probably operate on similar budgets. The CPB could fire Lehrer and Moyer who are no longer affordable for public broadcasting, besides the fact that they keep slipping farther and farther left in their stated views. Their worship of Noam Chomsky is sickening. This is not a national interest and is a program already mostly provided by private contributions and protected with a non profit status. Most of the public gets their news from privately owned networks or cable news programs.
The $425 million that funds PBS and NPR is more than the $398 million the federal government spends on Veteran Affairs. If the federal government were to end funding for the CPB and moved it to Veterans Affairs, the government could vastly improve its services and modernize hospitals which provide valuable aid and care to our national heroes. Veteran Affairs is a valid national interest and deserves this funding.
I would also like to end funding of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for Humanities and move this funding to the Department of the Treasury. The budget for the endowments totals $238 million while Customs Service, Air and Marine Interdiction only receive $198 million in federal funds. We are willing to pay artists who can not sell their wares without government intervention on their behalf, but we are not willing to fund the federal agency that runs the Coast Guard and properly secure our ports. I think good art will survive without the intervention of our federal government, but our ports will not secure themselves from terrorist.
Our representatives in the Senate and House of Representatives need to look through the budget and identify clearly the interests and responsibilities of the federal government and fund them and not fund every artist with a microphone or paint brush. We the People need a closer adherence to the principles outlined in the Constitution that limits the involvement of the federal government in our daily lives. The powers of the federal government are specifically enumerated in the Constitution. All other powers remain with the states. The powers limited to the states are specifically enumerated in the Constitution, and it only takes three lines.
The federal government spends too much of our money and on the wrong things.
One of the guys on my team listens to NPR out of UNC Chapel Hill. It is a very liberal station. I am not happy that my taxes helpp run WUNC. If it accepts federal funds, it should not have a PETA section of its office. Even if it is liberal, it should not represent the radical fringe of the left. So I went on to the GAO's website and dug through their numbers, and was very disturbed about where our money goes.
Department of the Treasury
Customs Service, Air and Marine Interdiction $198
Community Development Financial Institutions $115
Interagency Crime and Drug Enforce. Task Force $92
Total Department of the Treasury $405
Department of Veterans Affairs
V.A. Health Care Facilities Construction $398
Total Department of Veterans Affairs $398
Other Agencies and Activities
Agency for International Development $3,390
Assistance for Eastern Europe $402
Assistance for Former Soviet Union $484
African Development Fund $57
Appalachian Regional Commission $109
Commission on Civil Rights $9
Corporation for National and Community Service $433
Corporation for Public Broadcasting $425
National Endowment for the Arts $113
National Endowment for the Humanities $125
Federal funds make up 12.7 percent of WUNC’s(NPR, Chapel Hill) broadcasting and 83.3% comes from contributions. The station could make up the other 12% easily enough or reformat to make their broadcasting more cost effective. The federal funding for most stations probably operate on similar budgets. The CPB could fire Lehrer and Moyer who are no longer affordable for public broadcasting, besides the fact that they keep slipping farther and farther left in their stated views. Their worship of Noam Chomsky is sickening. This is not a national interest and is a program already mostly provided by private contributions and protected with a non profit status. Most of the public gets their news from privately owned networks or cable news programs.
The $425 million that funds PBS and NPR is more than the $398 million the federal government spends on Veteran Affairs. If the federal government were to end funding for the CPB and moved it to Veterans Affairs, the government could vastly improve its services and modernize hospitals which provide valuable aid and care to our national heroes. Veteran Affairs is a valid national interest and deserves this funding.
I would also like to end funding of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for Humanities and move this funding to the Department of the Treasury. The budget for the endowments totals $238 million while Customs Service, Air and Marine Interdiction only receive $198 million in federal funds. We are willing to pay artists who can not sell their wares without government intervention on their behalf, but we are not willing to fund the federal agency that runs the Coast Guard and properly secure our ports. I think good art will survive without the intervention of our federal government, but our ports will not secure themselves from terrorist.
Our representatives in the Senate and House of Representatives need to look through the budget and identify clearly the interests and responsibilities of the federal government and fund them and not fund every artist with a microphone or paint brush. We the People need a closer adherence to the principles outlined in the Constitution that limits the involvement of the federal government in our daily lives. The powers of the federal government are specifically enumerated in the Constitution. All other powers remain with the states. The powers limited to the states are specifically enumerated in the Constitution, and it only takes three lines.
The federal government spends too much of our money and on the wrong things.
posted by Rob D | 7:55 AM
6 Comments:
YAY!!! You're back! However, I have to admit that I didn't read past "misappropriating funds" because it seems like it's probably a bit over my head. However, I'll make sure JD checks this out and comments for ya.
Rob,
Take a look at Mike Huckabee's Presidential candidacy site - mikehuckabee.com - as a former state governor, he has the experience in running a government that legislators do not - and he's a proponent of the Fair Tax...
I agree wholeheartedly that we spend a lot of money on crap, but until a fiscal conservative gets control of the executive and legislative branches, we're going to see the same problems continue.
Hey Teddie Bear, , time to update the blog, its only been four months....WNC
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