Below is my column in the Hill on the effort to end the federal subsidy for National Public Radio, an effort that was greatly advanced by the testimony of its Chief Executive Officer. After imploding at a House hearing, NPR’s Katherine Maher even lost HBO’s Bill Maher who now supports defunding NPR. The Democrats hope to peal off a couple Republicans like Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to continue to fund the outlet. The pitch is to again mouth “assurances” that NPR will adopt more balanced coverage, the same assurance given for over a decade as the liberal bias at the outlet only became more pronounced.
Here is the column:
“This is NPR.”
Unfortunately for National Public Radio, that proved all too true this week. In one of the most cringeworthy appearances in Congress, Katherine Maher imploded in a House hearing on the public funding of the liberal radio outlet.
By the end of her series of contradictions and admissions, Maher had made the definitive case for ending public funding for NPR and state-subsidized media.
Many of us have written for years about the biased reporting at NPR. Not all of this criticism was made out of hostility toward the outlet — many honestly wanted NPR to reverse course and adopt more balanced coverage. That is why, when NPR was searching for a new CEO, I encouraged the board to hire a moderate figure without a history of political advocacy or controversy.
Instead, the board selected Katherine Maher, a former Wikipedia CEO widely criticized for her highly partisan and controversial public statements. She was the personification of advocacy journalism, even declaring that the First Amendment is the “number one challenge” that makes it “tricky” to censor or “modify” content as she would like.
Maher has supported “deplatforming” anyone she deems to be “facsists” and even suggested that she might support “punching Nazis.” She also declared that “our reverence for the truth might be a distraction [in] getting things done.”
As expected, the bias at NPR only got worse. The leadership even changed a longstanding rule barring journalists from joining political protests.
One editor had had enough. Uri Berliner had watched NPR become an echo chamber for the far left with a virtual purging of all conservatives and Republicans from the newsroom. Berliner noted that NPR’s Washington headquarters has 87 registered Democrats among its editors and zero Republicans.
Maher and NPR remained dismissive of such complaints. Maher attacked the award-winning Berliner for causing an “affront to the individual journalists who work incredibly hard.” She called his criticism “profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.”
Berliner resigned, after noting how Maher’s “divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR” that he had been pointing out.
For years, NPR continued along this path, but then came an election in which Republicans won both houses of Congress and the White House. The bill came due this week. Much of NPR’s time to testify was exhausted with Maher’s struggle to deny or defend her own past comments.
When asked about her past public statements that Trump is a “deranged, racist sociopath,” she said that she would not post such views today. She similarly brushed off her statements that America is “addicted to White supremacy” and her view that the use of the words “boy and girl” constitute “erasing language” for non-binary people.
When asked about her past assertion that the U.S. was founded on “black plunder and white democracy,” Maher said she no longer believed what she had said.
When asked about her support for the book “The Case for Reparations,” Maher denied any memory of ever having read the book. She was then read back her own public statements about how she took a day to read the book in a virtue-signaling post.
She then denied calling for reparations, but was read back her own declaration: “Yes, the North, yes all of us, yes America. Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations. Yes, on this day.” She then bizarrely claimed she had not meant giving Black people actual money, or “fiscal reparations.”
When given statistics on the bias in NPR’s hiring and coverage, Maher seemed to shrug as she said she finds such facts “concerning.”
The one moment of clarity came when Maher was asked about NPR’s refusal to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story. When first disclosed, with evidence of millions in alleged influence-peddling by the Biden family, NPR’s then-managing editor Terence Samuels made a strident and even mocking statement: “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
Now Maher wants Congress to know that “NPR acknowledges we were mistaken in failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner.”
All it took was the threat of a complete cutoff of federal funding.
In the end, NPR’s bias and contempt for the public over the years is well-documented. But this should not be the reason for cutting off such funding. Rather, the cutoff should be based on the principle that democracies do not selectively subsidize media outlets. We have long rejected the model of state media, and it is time we reaffirmed that principle. (I also believe there is ample reason to terminate funding for Voice of America, although that is a different conversation.)
Many defenders of NPR would be apoplectic if the government were to fund such competitors as Fox News. Indeed, Democratic members previously sought to pressure cable carriers to drop Fox, the most popular cable news channel. (For full disclosure, I am a Fox News legal analyst.)
Ironically, Fox News is more diverse than NPR and has more Democratic viewers than CNN or MSNBC.
Berliner revealed that according to NPR’s demographic research, only 6 percent of its audience is Black and only 7 percent Hispanic. According to Berliner, only 11 percent of NPR listeners describe themselves as very or somewhat conservative. He further stated that NPR’s audience is mostly liberal white Democrats in coastal cities and college towns.
NPR’s audience declined from 60 million weekly listeners in 2020 to just 42 million in 2024 — a drop of nearly 33 percent. This means Democrats are fighting to force taxpayers to support a biased left-wing news outlet with a declining audience of mainly affluent white liberal listeners.
Compounding this issue is the fact that this country is now $36.22 trillion in debt, and core federal programs are now being cut back. To ask citizens (including the half of voters who just voted for Trump) to continue to subsidize one liberal news outlet is embarrassing. It is time for NPR to compete equally in the media market without the help of federal subsidies.
If there was any doubt about that conclusion, it was surely dispatched by Maher’s appearance. After years of objections over its biases, the NPR board hired a CEO notorious for her activism and far-left viewpoints. Now, Maher is the face of NPR as it tries to convince the public that it can be trusted to reform itself. Her denials and deflections convinced no one. Indeed, Maher may have been the worst possible figure to offer such assurances.
That is the price of hubris and “this is NPR.”
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
“NOT TO TAX AD LIBITUM”
“[Congress] are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union.”
“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 might be for the good of 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 would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please.”
– Thomas Jefferson
The best case for not taxing for or funding NPR is Article 1, Section 8.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
America and Americans were designed and engineered to be free not subjugated.
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Article 1, Section 8
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;….
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
The singular American failure was the error of not strangling the Democratic Party at the moment of its birth while it was still in the crib.
While SCOTUS regularly gets it wrong, the Democrats not only are always wrong, they just keep getting worse as time goes on. Confederate racists like George have moved on to now being progressive communists – hating America and the constitution whose central principle is that of individual freedom and liberties.
They put their poisonous Marxist, totalitarian judges on SCOTUS, poison the judicial waters – and then send George here to claim the poisoned waters aren’t a result of their judges – it is SCOTUS as a body that is failure.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
The judicial branch has failed to fulfill its sworn-oath duty to support the “manifest tenor” of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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“…courts…must…declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”
“…men…do…what their powers do not authorize, [and] what they forbid.”
“[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”
– Alexander Hamilton
You, one so indigent as to have no accretive business to attend to and to be posting here, disparage a man who engendered a personal net worth of $343 billion in the complete absence of even a hint of prosecution for the suspicion of infraction or lack of decorum.
V V V V V
Elon Musk is a lying thieving disingenuous scumbag.
He was recently informed by his teenage DOGE hackers that millions of non-citizens are given a Social Security number. He said that this is scandalous and evidence of something very sinister going on at the SS Administration.
He knows perfectly well that non-citizens who are authorized to work on many non-immigrant visas, as well as permanent residents are issued with a SSN.
Why do these people get a SSN?
Because they have to pay taxes just like everybody else. Even students on F-1 visas can get a SSN if they are given on-campus work-study jobs to defray tuition expenses. H1-B visa holders also get a SSN because they have to pay taxes.
How does Musk know that this is true ???
Because he has held an F-1 visa, and an H1-B visa, and was issued a SSN as a non-citizen.
He is simply lying, and misrepresenting this information for his own sinister purposes.
Elon Musk is a lying thieving disingenuous scumbag.
Says a lying, thieving disingenuous scumbag Democrat who repeatedly voted for and supported a lying, thieving ingenuousness scumbag: Bribery Biden, the unindicted felon still free on work probation.
He was recently informed by his teenage DOGE hackers…
“Teenagers”?When were their ages published – rather than a claim made up by Democrat liars? This is what a lying disingenuous scumbag Democrat acts like (when not planning further domestic terrorism with attacks on Tesla dealerships and their owners).
One of those “teenage DOGE hackers” eliminating all the Social Security fraud by Democrat welfare queens like this poster is Brian Chensky.
This “teenage hacker is 43 – and the creator and CEO of the AIRbnb app, currently valued at around $20 billion – and 11 billion in revenue last year.
You can certainly loath him for successfully building a business that made him a billionaire – but it’s typical Democrat lying to try to call him “a teenage DOGE hacker”.
Tom Krause formerly CEO of Cloud Software is in his late 40’s.
Anthony Armstrong, COO for technology for first Credit Suisse and now Morgan Stanley is almost 60.
Democrat communists don’t actually know what a “teenage hacker” looks like, as they attempt to become script kiddies.
Characterizing NPR as merely “a biased left-wing news outlet …” comes close to spreading disinformation. Instead, NPR (and, for that matter, PBS) are closer to Marxist propaganda machines than balanced journalistic sources completely undeserving — stating the matter politely — of any U.S. taxpayer financing at all. Full stop.
Why does the judicial branch constantly stalk the executive branch—when a Republican is in office—usurp its constitutionally vested power, and exercise that very executive power?
Why does the judicial branch NEVER strike down irrefutably unconstitutional acts by the legislative branch—such as the complete absence and dearth of power to tax for and fund NPR?
The Constitution provides the judicial branch with NO legislative or executive power.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
The radical tweets of people like Mahar in 2020 really are a double edged sword because she may not have gotten the job as head of PBS, as well as getting on the board on places like Signal (think about that for a sec) and other lucrative “board slots”. Of course after getting rich and powerful thanks in part to her radical tweets she has to live with that 2020 insanity now that the world has come back to more normalcy.
Think George McGovern being the furthest left candidate in 1972 while sucking the last breaths out of the radical 1960s in order to get the nomination to then win only insane MA in the general once Joe Everyman saw his ideas. Think about Kamala and her far left positions in 2020 and how they came to bite her in 2024.
Watch as Newsome out in CA tries to pretend that the last 4-8 years of his policies were only a dream and the media trying to cover for him.
If NPR is to salvage itself and continue getting government funding, it is clear Katherine Maher must be let go asap. Her testimony served only to walk back what she and NPR are about. It is, however, only a beginning to what new leadership and an entirely revamped agenda at NPR now needs to accomplish. Her disastrous appearance before the DOGE Committee is proof positive that her illiberal progressivism has not evolved. She may well have been smart enough to get the job, but it shows now she is not nearly adept enough to keep it.
https://youtu.be/yZjK7OdVi6U
“If NPR is to salvage itself and continue getting government funding, it is clear Katherine Maher must be let go asap.”
Maher or no Maher, it could not possibly be clearer that there is ZERO justification for federal funding of NPR or PBS, either on the grounds of Constitutional authorization or practical reality. Period, end of freaking story.
When Congress taxes free Americans, it must cite the Constitution for the authority and a legal basis.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
The subject of debate regarding taxation for NPR is Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution.
No authority or legal basis for taxation to fund NPR exists there.
End of story.
We must preserve and protect National Palestinian Radio! How else will the Marxist-Left destroy America, freedom, and liberty while pretending to do the opposite?
Fortunately for us, we have these mature 8 year old leftist here arguing dispassionately for the protection of public radio and public television subsidies, because we’re too ignorant to understand exactly how good NPR and PBS are for us without their help.
First before I get into Public Broadcasting (TV/Radio/) I’ll add an example of the insane dolling of funds from the federal government. The NIH awarded a professor a grant of $1.4 million for research related to dementia and care giving among LGBTQIA+, and veterans. Having had past relatives with dementia I was totally shocked that dementia attacks LGBTQIA+ and veterans differently than the average Joe and Jane, maybe it’s the hormones.
Now to pBS Television, what is their worth, let’s suppose there are 50 total licenses one in each state (which we can be assured is the low end) for broadcast rights within a certain location and spectrum (bandwidth) and is owned singularly. The licensee owns repeaters, studios and other assorted necessary equipment and infrastructure. This business structure is VERY unique compared to commercial entities, I am not touching content, is has separate valuation. So, what’s the value, I could venture a guess, tens of billions I would assume.
On to radio NPR, the same holds true with licenses and appendages, and again very unique to own broadcasting rights nation-wide especially within a very narrow bandwidth. You’d have a very hard time finding the same broadcaster in narrow bandwidth. So again, what’s it worth?
The government restricts individuals and companies from controlling a collective of rights nationwide.
This structure opens a large door into Propaganda possibilities!
I say stop the funding by breaking it up and selling the parts.
The testimony of Katherine Maher was eviscerating. This is not a case of a few rotten apples. The whole barrel is filled with rotten apples. Having been a listener to NPR for decades beginning in the 60’s I did note that the coverage had evolved over the years. I recall that even during the Thomas confirmation hearings, Nina Totenberg struggled mightily, with some success, to provide balanced coverage of the story. Now I listen for laughs. It is a bit of a game for me to spot the half truths and distortions. But there is absolutely no reason for the government to borrow money to fund my occasional pleasure.
Totenburg ended up as bad as all the others, she destroyed her own name.
Not within the communist party.
Hey, you can’t blame her. If she didn’t do as she was told she wouldn’t be invited to all the hoity toity parties and lunch at the “Club”. What’s a girl to do?
This is stupid.
It was NEVER a good idea to subsidize NPR – OR ANYTHING ELSE.
The issue is not that NPR is left biased, it is that subsidies remove market discipline.
Turley and those on the left constantly fail to grasp that it is free markets including free markets in ideas that best regulate not just speech but everything.
Subsidizing anything will ALWAYS push us in the wrong direction.
Do not subsidize the media. do not subsidize charity, do not subsidize science, do not subsidize anything.
We may not be able to get to that immediately – but we must move in that direction.
Get out the chainsaw
afuera, afuera, afuera!
@John
Very much agreed. There was a time that might have made sense, in the early days of TV broadcasts, for example; but that has been a done deal for nigh on 40 years. The willingness to exploit resources is my biggest beef, the entitlement vs. necessity – there has been nothing whatsoever honest about any of this in the same span of time.
It is way past due to cut it off. If they are half as integral as they claim to be, they will survive on their own quite easily, though, frankly, I might as well be reading the also defunct Weekly World News from days of yore.
This is not even partisan, it’s just about quality, and the MSM and NGOs are not that, period. I would love nothing more than to see how they do on a level playing field; posing as beggars wholly reliant on scraps tossed out of some kind of faux societal pity is not a sign of thriving for anyone, or anything; NPR, given its opinion of itself, should be just fine funding itself. The feeling of entitlement to such, thus negating actual effort, is even worse. And bear in mind we are talking about companies here, not starving children or anyone who is disenfranchised. Quite the opposite.
The modern elite are a ridiculous bunch indeed, and they are positively terrified to have to make their own paths like the rest of us do, and often, if not quite supremely successfully, at least very much sufficiently, so. 🤷🏻♂️
James,
Good observation about there may have been the need for support back in the early days of TV.
Cut the federal subsidies let them survive on their own. If they can. Then they just might have to do some actual journalism to deliver what the American people want. Quality, non-subjective reporting. Lose the bias.
On the subject of quality, it seems more and more our leftist friends cannot grasp the concept if you dont put out quality but more woke leftist crap, they are going to fail. It is not just MSM but Hollywood as well. Take Disney’s latest, Snow White. Even Suzy Weiss, saw it and said the acting was “dismal.” The CGI was even worse. Gal Gadot’s best part was her jewelry. Dopey looked like a child pervert. And, “When that little freak danced and bounced around on top of a table, my blood turned cold.” Yeah. They keep putting crap out, dont be surprised when no one is interested.
NotReallyaFarmer
Are you still out in the fields today tending to your imaginary livestock.
It’s springtime now, so you must be extremely busy planting your imaginary crops.
You are also obviously reading every comment today and commenting on many of them
You are a true master of multitasking!!!!
Oh, stupid one, there is still snow on the ground. There is nothing for the livestock to eat out there. So they get hay, twice a day. The lows are still in the upper 20s low 30s. Planting is still almost two months away.
And yes. There is something I learned in the Marines call time management, management of resources. I get more done by 0900 than most people do all day long. And I am just smarter than you.
NotReallyaFarmer
Why are you always so defensive ?????
Why do you always go to such extraordinary and detailed lengths to try explain how you can be reading and commenting here all day while you are out in your imaginary “fields”.
You are obviously reading everything here as well as commenting at length.
You are not fooling anyone !!!!!
There is no way that you can be “out in the fields” and commenting to the extent that you do.
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of.
You just need to admit it, and seek some help.
Not defensive. Just pointing out your mental illness of projection. You have this amazing, magical way even, of knowing how I conduct my business without prof. Again, another sign of mental illness. My comments are not at length. John Say’s comments are at length. My self and others use mobile devices, IIRC James does as well, to comment. And, no, I do not read everything here. As I have stated in the past, there are a number of comments I just scroll past. And autocorrect and adaptive word suggestions make it all that much easier and faster to comment. You really should get caught up with technology.
As I said before.
Extremely defensive.
Why do feel the need to go into such great detail to defend yourself ???
Because you know I am right, and you feel compelled to make absurdly detailed defenses.
As I said before, your mental illness of projection and magical thinking you know my business with out prof. That is not “great detail.” Those are just the bare basic facts. Great detail would be a play by play, hourly detailed account. What I know is you are ever so wrong. I mean, how can someone comment on someone else life without never meeting them and then accusing them of . . . what exactly? You obviously have a mental illness. Get help.
Why do you feel compelled to respond to me and defend yourself ??
The fact that feel compelled to respond says a lot about your insecurity that I am right.
You have never been right about anything. That is just a fact. I am not insecure. I am just pointing out the basic facts. You are the one with the mental illness who thinks he knows everything about me. You mental illness projection that you repeat over and over again. You think I am compelled to respond to your wrong comments. No. I am just pointing out how wrong you are. How you have this mental illness that you think and believe you know how I live my life and run my business when clearly you know nothing. That is real mental illness.
You are still responding.
You are still trying to defend yourself.
Why do you have this compulsion to be defensive.
“There was a time that might have made sense, in the early days of TV broadcasts, for example”
Do you have any specific examples of such justification (potential outcomes for subsidized vs non-subsidized)? Because absent any that are plausible, I would dispute that possibility. Frankly, it seems more like rationalization for not opposing Federal subsidies of such things before the lunacy of Federal support became painfully and indisputably obvious. Frankly, TV played a very strong part in undermining the intelligence and productivity of the American populace in general, maybe if it had been forced to sink or swim on its own merits, the outcome would have been better. I believe it remains too early to make such a definitive statement about the internet, but that day may not be far off.
Let’s put it in a nutshell. She says that to get things done we must reject the truth and lie to the American people to further the control of the Collective. The truth is only a roadblock in the pursuit of the final mission and therefore it should be stricken from the manifesto along with the silly idea of free speech as quickly as is humanly possible. We can rewrite it on some newly discovered parchment that is two hundred and fifty years old so no one will be the wiser. All is allowed because we are the Chosen of the gods.
NPR and Katherine Maher no longer serve any useful purpose for the citizens of the US. And their own demographics show they serve the most bigoted portion of the US population. Time for NPR, Maher and their bigoted base to fend for themselves. It is that simple.
Turley wants to kill NPR because of pure politics and mentioned nothing NPR did wrong. The laptop was a non story and NPR was right to ignore it. One goes to NPR to avoid the trash stories of the rest of the broadcast news.
Journalist dig for truth, air stories that the government does not like, and brings injustice to light. All of which are antithetical to conservatives and toxic to MAGAs.
What was your reaction to the non-MSM (and FOX) newsies airing stories the previous admin did not like? Oh yeah, you pushed for their deplatforming, censoring, and imprisonment.
Stop shucking slop if you can’t take getting some in your face.
Franke lives in the dark and survives on what the mushrooms eat. Even such so called news outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post have admitted that the Hunter Laptop was not just Russian disinformation. Yet Franke persists in telling us that it was a nothing burger and that Hunter receiving millions from the Ukrainians and the Chinese by a Vice President’s son was no big deal. Franke is a living example of the failed education system in America.
What NPR did wrong was to ditch objective journalistic standards in favor of DNC talking points. NPR was wrong not to cover the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story. One goes on NPR for softball interviews, with softball questions. And they do it all the time while taking taxpayer money.
Please cite the Constitution for any power of Congress to tax for and fund NPR.
Please cite the Constitution for any power of Congress to regulate the free press.
Please cite the Constitution for any power of Congress to regulate broadcast media.
Please cite the Constitution for any power of Congress to tax for and fund any broadcast of distinctly biased and liberal promotions or advocacy (i.e. propaganda/indoctrination).
Please cite the Constitution for any power of Congress to tax for and fund any private property or private enterprise organization.
When will you people grasp that America and Americans are to be free by the Constitution?
Americans are not to be “regulated” and enslaved by the Constitution; that is the function of the Communist Manifesto.
Communist “dictatorship of the proletariat” is invalid, illegitimate, illicit, and unconstitutional in the United States of America.
Americans are free, and they “claim and exercise” dominion over their private property, which, incidentally, is private and distinctly not public, or haven’t you noticed?
It is precisely the government that is severely limited and restricted by the Constitution.
Wake the —- up!
@Franke
This is why you lose. And in this country, at least, you will continue to. Real freedom means living peacefully alongside people you might really, really disagree with. It is no wonder your children are the way they are, raised by parents like this.
Just remember: you are going to have to live in the world you have created right along with everyone else, and beyond a point, money and opinions will no longer insulate you. Might be best to decide to get along, live and let live. At some point self-preservation enters the conversation, and since that’s all you care about, you might do well to take heed.
Your neighbors are not your enemies, even if they think differently than you do, and that used to be a liberal ideal. You all, collectively (because you are now following the script of globalists) have abandoned any notion of that, whole hog. So either you were lying to save face, or you never really believed it in the first place. The rest of us DO.
Remember what I and others have said about money and privilege: it will not protect you forever. Real peace, tolerance, and understanding will. You may have to learn this the hard way, we are waaaaaay past polemic or ideology. For most, this is just survival. Sorry you finally have to be in that group for the first time in your cushy life.
WordPress error or human error. That was me, James, ‘Franke’. I am happy to own my name and presence.
“Real freedom means living peacefully alongside people [who strictly adhere to the Constitution and Bill of Rights and utterly eschew the Communist Manifesto in its entirety].”
– James
Franke claimed The laptop showing Hunter was a bagman collecting bribes and engaged in money laundering and not registering as an agent for the ChiComs as FARA requires, was an non story and NPR was right to ignore it. Everybody knows that Americans knowing about the laptop and reading the contents of the Biden laptop would not have influenced a single vote.
So… the NPR CEO, attempting to save her commie ass from getting fired, says it was a mistake (an inadvertent mistake of course) that they should have covered.
But Franke goes all in, even further than this CEO Maher did – and just flat out lies it was not a mistake.
Franke: which Democrat liar should we believe? Haher or you?
“[O]ur reverence for the truth might be a distraction [in] getting things done.”
With that irrational premise, everything she says is expressed on an Etch A Sketch.
No need to make budget cuts at this point. It’s too late to matter. Our economy is just about to fall off a cliff – a very high cliff. When our dollars have no value, budget cut will happen by default!
– John Underwood
Tyler, TX
DOGE is telling Americans that, but the parasites and leeches are so focused on acquiring Other People’s Money (OPM), in the forms of “free stuff” and “free status,” that they refuse to listen or process the facts rationally.
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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”
– Alexander Fraser Tytler
” It’s too late to matter. ”
It quite possibly is too late to defray a major financial crisis, but any improvement could make the decline a little less steep, so it does still “matter”. Unfortunately, what is more likely to happen, is a sharp financial decline going into midterm elections, resulting in successful Congressional stonewalling of budget, deficit, and debt reductions, quite possibly followed by a resurgent Democrat retaking of the Presidency in 2028 (this contingency might become more likely if Trump attempts to use the involvement of our military in foreign conflicts as a distraction, which appears to me to be an increasing possibility). In which case the Fed will swing right back into its inflationary strategy full-bore, generating currency (printed or crypto) at a mind-boggling pace, and kicking the proverbial can down the road for a few years more, until the absolute, bitter, end.