No, was not at TMEW’s most favorite restaurant (Olive Garden) where that spaghetti bowl appears, it is from here:
How much federal money, all told, does NPR receive? Lamborn doesn’t know. "The funding is so convoluted and opaque," he says. "We asked the Congressional Research Service to look at the books, and a senior analyst got back to us and said it was like a spaghetti bowl — those were his exact words." Lamborn has asked the Government Accountability Office to find out for sure.
Now, the story is about Republican attempts (perhaps) to defund NPR. Frankly, I do listen to NPR at times, but when I go up to the 10,000 ft level from ground zero listening, there is a distinct Liberal bias that is strewn through out the programming schedule. Little things, here and there, the jokes, the off-hand comments; they do add up. Just ask yourself – would NH Public Radio EVER let me have a slot Saturday mornings…or at any time? Ask yourself – when was the last time an uber-Conservative headlined any show of consequence (and at a consequential time slot) on public radio? ‘Nuff said.
What really caught my eye was this:
"… to look at the books, and a senior analyst got back to us and said it was like a spaghetti bowl — those were his exact words."
The fault of NPR? No, the fault of having an all too big Government that can’t just know its left hand from it’s right, it can’t even figure out how many hands it has! Here we have a pimple of a program funding wise, and they had a hard time figuring out where the money was coming from? In the words of Pelosi, "Are you serious??"
This is not a bug, but a designed in feature of obscurity and opaqueness. Bureaucrats in large organizations feel safer that way and tend to grow things that way. Clueless politicians water that growth with our money. And we poor taxpayers can’t demand accountability from either a responsibility or financial standpoint because there are too many strands to pull from. And how many times is this small example replicated over a $4Trillion budget? Yet, it seems, every dollar is sacred and is willing to fight for every single buck they can get from the system; game theory run amok.
Limited Government means just that. November 2nd was just about that. Time to make it happen; man up. Polls have shown that a majority of people want a smaller, less expensive government and are willing to have it do less. Which gives rise to the other part of the November 2nd equation – more self-responsibility: we have to do more for ourselves instead of expecting others to do it for us.
Would I miss NHPR? Some, but it’s not like I don’t have choices – LOTS of choices. All I need to do is spin the radio dial a bit.
