Posted On: Saturday - April 27th 2024 9:12AM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity University Media Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism Morning Constitutional
These 2 stories are in the news enough such that it would probably bore the reader were we do expound much on them right now. I think it's worthwhile to look at the myriad episodes of stupidity we see around us and get at the root. Roots Politics. Remember Roots Rock&Roll? Let's get back to our roots.
There's old JoeTater, doing the Andy Jackson thing - "let them enforce it!", regarding the recent SCROTUS ruling that, no, the President cannot forgive student debt on a whim. From Gateway Pundit, as usual, Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation Has Taxpayers Paying Over $550 Billion, Benefits Wealthier Families. Well, no, that's not actually the real problem.
While the New Plans, like the SAVE plan, contain provisions to relieve debt based on individual or household income, the New Plans will also relieve some longer-term student debt for about 750,000 households making over $312,000 in average household income,” it continued.See "plan"? That's a problem. No Bill has been passed on this (vote-buying) loan forgiveness to make it an Act. Dark Brandon there just issued an Edict. That's not really a Founding Father's concept, the issuing of edicts, that is.
Even that's not the root of the problem. The root of the problem is that the US Feral Gov't is in the business guaranteeing bank loans of any sort and of loaning money to students directly to begin with. (The latter is pretty much the program now, from what I've read.) Not a soul involved in writing and reading the Constitution for the 1st 3/5* of the history of the American Republic could have imagined that this is Constitutional.
The piece** above has been in all the Conservative news as of late. Pundit after pundit has chimed in, including Steve Sailer and John Derbyshire. I doubt I can add anything that hasn't been said about Miss Katherine Maher herself. (The worst has been in the lady's own writing, in those anti-White tweets of hers over the years.)
Katherine Maher is the new CEO of npr - it's in small letters now - that's National Public Radio. That's what this brewhaha is mainly about, that this National and Public radio network is using American tax dollars to broadcast hard-core anti-White, anti-male hate. Peak Stupidity has had its say already, in "All Things Considered", it's been a long road to Peak Stupidity and then much later a funny story about Seattle Mazda drivers left stuck on NPR.
Now npr says it gets "less than 1%" of its income from the Feral Gov't. That's a lie, as in '20 per The Western Journal here, 8% of npr's funding that year came directly from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting***, while 5% came from government agencies of different levels, and 10% more came from universities .. funded by the Feral Gov't.
So, of its ~$320 million in revenue, npr gets, let's just plain guess here, about $50 to $100 million yearly from the taxpayers (or, actually, the "This is crazy, this is crazy, this is crazy!" current Treasury Bond holders). This is peanuts in the scheme of things. It's from 5 to 10 minutes of Congressional annual expenditures, if we figure they spend money 24/7/365(and sometimes 6), which THEY CAN! Then too, if it's 1% or even 25% of npr's income, especially the former as per their statements, couldn't this outfit get along pretty well without it?****
Yet, this has been a thing for years, the GOP and some outraged or fake-outraged Congressmen and Senators saying "Defund NPR!" and "Defund PBS!" It never happens, and it never will happen, not until the whole financial stupidity we've been experiencing collapses.. That means that it will happen and probably pretty soon.
Let's get back to our political roots. The root of the problem here is that the US Feral Gov't has NO BUSINESS funding ANY media operation!
In wondering why we have all these problems, it might behoove us to get back to Roots Politics. It explains a lot!
* Why 3/5? We are 2 years from the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Things started to get bad just under a century ago. In this student loan business, it's been less than 1/5 of our history that the Feral Gov't got involved. However, Roosevelt's Socialist programs of NEARLY (9 years off) a century ago were on these same lines. These loans COULD have been imagined during his time.
** Piece of work or piece of ass? I'll let the readers decide. One CAN be both of course.
*** From Wikipedia, which, per it's former CEO Katherine Maher's own words, may not be actually telling the truth in that White male style anyway: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is an American publicly funded non-profit corporation, created in 1967 to promote and help support public broadcasting.
**** If you'd asked me, I'd have figured their "news"room had 10 to 20 people. Nope, per a tweet from the ex-CEO Berliner, they have over 80. They could afford to let a few go.
Comments:
Moderator
Tuesday - April 30th 2024 3:34PM MST
PS: OK, I get your point now, Stretch. Thank you for that (somewhat) inside information.
stretch23
Tuesday - April 30th 2024 8:09AM MST
PS You misunderstand the point of my comment. I'm saying that NPR is lying when they say they don't receive taxpayer support. They do receive it indirectly through the stations. There is no such thing as an "NPR station." There are only stations that buy NPR programming, as much or little as they choose. But then they have to spend those grants on something, don't they. This is coming from a former "public radio" manager.
Moderator
Monday - April 29th 2024 6:43PM MST
PS: "The stations get the money in the form of program acquisition grants..." which come from which taxpayers, though, Stretch? Public radio stations are being supported by government of some sort (State ones, as far as I know).
"NPR is not a "network." It's a program producer that sells programming to public stations." I can see the reverse, then: no npr = no public radio stations. Isn't all they carry the npr programming? I understand there are Public Access stations on TV that show "Wayne's World" and such ...
"NPR is not a "network." It's a program producer that sells programming to public stations." I can see the reverse, then: no npr = no public radio stations. Isn't all they carry the npr programming? I understand there are Public Access stations on TV that show "Wayne's World" and such ...
stretch23
Monday - April 29th 2024 8:34AM MST
PS I hear this mis-representation all the time. NPR does not get the money directly from CPB. The stations get the money in the form of program acquisition grants which they then use to buy NPR's programs. No station grants, no NPR. NPR is not a "network." It's a program producer that sells programming to public stations.
Moderator
Saturday - April 27th 2024 2:19PM MST
PS: You too, re the happy weekend, Adam. Gotta go.
Adam Smith
Saturday - April 27th 2024 2:01PM MST
PS: Good evening,
$559,000,000,000 for student loan forgiveness?
Wouldn't that debt-based currency be better spent on the Greater Israel project?
More seriously though, I found a headline for Achmed...
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/indonesian-transgender-climate-change-bandung-b2522422.html
or to paraphrase...
Climate Emergency Hits Vulnerable Indonesian Trans Sex Workers Hardest!
(or something like that...)
Happy Weekend! ☮️
$559,000,000,000 for student loan forgiveness?
Wouldn't that debt-based currency be better spent on the Greater Israel project?
More seriously though, I found a headline for Achmed...
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/indonesian-transgender-climate-change-bandung-b2522422.html
or to paraphrase...
Climate Emergency Hits Vulnerable Indonesian Trans Sex Workers Hardest!
(or something like that...)
Happy Weekend! ☮️
Moderator
Saturday - April 27th 2024 12:44PM MST
PS: Thanks. I just read a bit on the Smith-Mundt Act, Alarmist. It sounds to me like it was not so much written in order to restrict domestic propaganda but to allow the US Gov't and to fund via the State Department to start a program of international media dissemination (whether radio, print, the set-up of libraries*, etc.) to being with. The domestic ban went along, as Congressmen were wiser back then.
I'd say the banning of a domestic version was akin to the laws the created the CIA (out of the old OSS) that would have prohibited it from getting involved in domestic matters. That didn't last ...
So for me, I can just look up Amendment X, for one thing.
* BTW, I imagine it was this program that was used to build the anti-Communism reading rooms, as in, libraries, in certain countries adjacent to the ones that wouldn't have allowed them. Senator McCarthy was called a "book banner" due to his criticism of the placement of PRO-Communist books in these specifically anti-Communist libraries! That was the whole of it. What a crock!
I'd say the banning of a domestic version was akin to the laws the created the CIA (out of the old OSS) that would have prohibited it from getting involved in domestic matters. That didn't last ...
So for me, I can just look up Amendment X, for one thing.
* BTW, I imagine it was this program that was used to build the anti-Communism reading rooms, as in, libraries, in certain countries adjacent to the ones that wouldn't have allowed them. Senator McCarthy was called a "book banner" due to his criticism of the placement of PRO-Communist books in these specifically anti-Communist libraries! That was the whole of it. What a crock!
The Alarmist
Saturday - April 27th 2024 11:35AM MST
PS
Look up the Smith-Mundt Act: it’s intent was to prohibit the Feral govt from aiming propaganda at American audiences in the “homeland.”
It was, of course, repealed under on of the many NDAAs in the past decade or so.
Look up the Smith-Mundt Act: it’s intent was to prohibit the Feral govt from aiming propaganda at American audiences in the “homeland.”
It was, of course, repealed under on of the many NDAAs in the past decade or so.
Moderator
Saturday - April 27th 2024 9:38AM MST
PS: I appreciate your good wishes, Mr. Blanc. ;-}
MBlaqnc46
Saturday - April 27th 2024 9:37AM MST
PS Let's get back to our political roots. Good luck with that.