Posted on 08/18/2005 11:10:46 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
i'm surprised someone mentioned foxnews and cspan together? Is cspan a right thing outlet? I've been watching it and its one of the most neutral sources out there
Where most of the money goes is to pay salaries for leftists who in turn treat their place as a sort of melding of high school, colleges and social clubs.
The left wasting/misspending money....shocking, eh??!!
Although the article doesn't directly say so, it is clear to me that Rob Stein is setting himself so that he and his circle of friends and relatives can assume high paying "management" positions in his newly created think tank, once they have assembled $80 million or so of the suckers, oops - I mean backers money.
A think tank is the perfect vehicle for a gravy train project because you can use the money to sub contract out to consultants the real work of preparing "studies" on various topics while Rob and friends float around to conventions and talk shows passing off the position papers as their own ideas and to maximize their face time on TV.
If this sounds far fetched, just look at what the Gloria Wise charity group was paying to that clutch of managers who defrauded it for Air America's advantage. They were pulling down salaries of between $150,000 and $250,000 of the taxpayers money for doing SFA and had been getting away with it for years and years.
An alternate spelling for think tank is, "gravy train".
If anyone wants a current example of what unopposed liberalism can do for a city, one only needs to look at Detroit. Liberalism does not work, and the examples abound for those not so emotionally attached to the ideas of liberalism that they have blinded themselves.
Besides, why do they want to put up even more think tanks? I thought the liberals already had a near monopoly on information dissemination. The minority of conservative voices out there must be quite effective, or these rich liberals wouldn't be trying to drown them out by increasing the volume of liberal same old, same old.
""At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute $1 million or more apiece to fund a network of think tanks and advocacy groups to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up over the past three decades." "
Here, I can do it for free.
BRING FORTH POLICY THAT BENEFITS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY AND NOT JUST ABORTIONISTS AND GAY MARRIAGE ADVOCATES!!!!!
Now that should be worth at least a couple of mil. Cash please, unmarked bills in my Cayman Island account.
Yes. Cspan is like a pane of glass allowing the viewer to see Democrat politicians in all their glory on the House and Senate floors. How long could somebody watch that and still vote Democrat?
Hey, I'm going to the Caymans next month! I'll be glad to deposit it for you. ;)
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