Where else can parasites go to get more tax dollars than the parasite capital of the world?
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The federal education industry, Public Television, Public Radio, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and on and on goes the list of parasite eateries. Not a one of them has any business getting tax dollars.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...apital-Renamed-Kakistoc&p=2813781#post2813781
The enclosed informative article fails to mention the free advertising National Public Radio’s political agenda gets on FOX from
And why in hell did FOX hire this guy after NPR dumped him?
National Public Radio (“NPR”) has historically been criticized for liberal bias. Is it any wonder why, particularly when there’s a money trail from liberal organizations bankrolling an already taxpayer-funded news outlet?
Ten liberal organizations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ($14,164,937), the Ford Foundation ($12,350,000), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ($7,000,000) the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation ($6,285,000), liberal billionaire George Soros’ Foundation to Promote Open Society ($2,900,000), the Ploughshares Fund ($550,000), Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc. ($218,000), The Rockefeller Foundation ($200,000), the Craig Newmark Foundation ($100,000) and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. ($50,000) have contributed $43,817,937 to National Public Radio (NPR) between 2003-2019, according to Foundation Directory Online data. This raises major concerns over its liberal bias, especially given that NPR also receives federal funding.
Ten liberal organizations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ($14,164,937), the Ford Foundation ($12,350,000), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ($7,000,000) the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation ($6,285,000), liberal billionaire George Soros’ Foundation to Promote Open Society ($2,900,000), the Ploughshares Fund ($550,000), Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc. ($218,000), The Rockefeller Foundation ($200,000), the Craig Newmark Foundation ($100,000) and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. ($50,000) have contributed $43,817,937 to National Public Radio (NPR) between 2003-2019, according to Foundation Directory Online data. This raises major concerns over its liberal bias, especially given that NPR also receives federal funding.
NPR has been criticized in the past for its liberal bias and left-leaning coverage. Recently, NPR was one of a string of media outlets that published stories hyping United Nations data that showed 100,000 migrant children being held in detention centers. One problem though: the stories were deleted after the data was revealed to have been from 2015, during former President Barack Obama’s (D) presidency. In September, NPR was also one of two taxpayer-funded outlets (the other being PBS), that interviewed Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) and failed to question his false “parody” of President Donald Trump’s July 25th phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Perhaps one of the reasons for NPR’s liberal bias is because its donor organizations are also some of the largest liberal contributors to left-wing causes, including liberal media outlets.
George Soros’ involvement in funding NPR is case in point. Liberal causes that Soros has bankrolled included spending $400 million to manipulate higher education and spending more than half a billion dollars underwriting other major liberal initiatives – “pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia, pro-gay marriage, pro-drug legalization, pro-union, pro-government-funded media and even attacks against the concept of free elections and voting for judges.”
It was recently discovered that Soros’ Open Society Network bankrolled 22 liberal groups who sponsored the Global Climate Strike in September, contributing at least $24,854,592 to the groups collectively between 2000-2017.
NPR was also under heavy scrutiny in 2011 for having received money from Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI).
Other organizations such as the Ford Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are similarly notorious for bankrolling liberal causes, not least prominent among them -- abortion. Between 2010-2013, the Ford Foundation contributed $13,486,250 to Planned Parenthood. Former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards has sat on the Board of Trustees for the Ford Foundation for years. And from 2009 and before to 2018, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation contributed $81,009,329 to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates.
In 2018, Craig Newmark, who owns the Craig Newmark Foundation, contributed $1 million to left-wing outlet Mother Jones. Craig Newmark has also contributed millions to other liberal journalism groups, including: ProPublica, Center for Investigative Reporting, Center for Public Integrity and Alternet.
Another liberal organization known for funding left-wing causes such as abortion, population control, liberal media outlets and environmentalism, is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The Knight Foundation also has a history of bankrolling liberal nonprofit media. It contributed $233 million to journalism between 2003-2018, and much of that supported liberal outlets including ProPublica, InsideClimate News (which was behind the ExxonMobil climate investigation) and Center for Investigative Reporting.
The liberal Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc., and The Rockefeller Foundation have also provided funding to liberal causes such as abortion and environmentalism.
The Ploughshares Fund was noted by the Associated Press May 20, 2016 “as a group the [Barack Obama] White House recently identified as a key surrogate in selling the controversial Iran Nuclear deal” in 2015. Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, previously worked for the Soros-funded Center for American Progress.
Liberal Organizations Contributed $43,817,937 to NPR from 2003 to 2019
By Joseph Vazquez
December 12, 2019 11:10 AM EST
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/b...rganizations-contributed-43817937-npr-2003-19
By Joseph Vazquez
December 12, 2019 11:10 AM EST
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/b...rganizations-contributed-43817937-npr-2003-19
Tax dollars fund political causes of ever stripe.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson
Democrat parasites pretend they love the Constitution whenever it is politically expedient, but not a one of them is smart enough to pretend they love the governing philosophy the Founders gave us.
Finally, Christian Bibles are a compendium of thoughts expressed by countless individuals that define Christianity. I put together individual thoughts that define a single moral and governing philosophy:
In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)
Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. James Madison
With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. James Madison
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions. James Madison, “Letter to Edmund Pendleton,”
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own. According to this standard of merit, the praise of affording a just securing to property, should be sparingly bestowed on a government which, however scrupulously guarding the possessions of individuals, does not protect them in the enjoyment and communication of their opinions, in which they have an equal, and in the estimation of some, a more valuable property. James Madison
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 19, 1787
When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. Thomas Jefferson to Charles Hammond, 1821. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors, ME 15:332
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. Thomas Jefferson, letter to E. Carrington, May 27, 1788
To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, —the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, & the fruits acquired by it. Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801
Our tenet ever was that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated, and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action; consequently, that the specification of powers is a limitation of the purposes for which they may raise money. Thomas Jefferson letter to Albert Gallatin, 1817
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. Thomas Jefferson
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. Thomas Jefferson
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first. Thomas Jefferson
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Ludlow, September 6, 1824
If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Cooper, Nov 29, 1802
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Spencer Roane, March 9, 1821
The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Shelton Gilliam, June 19, 1808
They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please...Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect. Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on National Bank, 1791
I place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. Thomas Jefferson
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on will save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale. Thomas Jefferson
Taxation follows public debt, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. Thomas Jefferson
The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society.” John Adams
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free. John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787
The Utopian schemes of re-distribution of the wealth...are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the Crown. Samuel Adams
In the main it will be found that a power over a man’s support (salary) is a power over his will. Alexander Hamilton
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. Benjamin Franklin