Eliminate Taxpayer Funding for NPR and PBS

I sent the following message to Representative Neugebauer:

As you know, spending bills and the killing of same originate in the House. That's you.

The firing of Juan Williams from NPR is a matter of considerable controversy in the news. However more importantly, it has brought to light a subsidy abuse.

Taxpayer funds are being used to subsidize radio station NPR and television station PBS. I am sure you are aware that there are a great many radio stations and television stations, such that there seems no justification for any taxpayer subsidization for either of these areas. I suggest that you take up the matter of eliminating taxpayer subsidies to these two communication centers.

While you may say that the amount of funding that goes to these two operations is rather small and insignificant, I say it's an important aspect of the whole program to reduce federal government expenditures. The innate amount of money may be small, but it is a reflection of mental attitude, which has gotten us into the precarious financial situation we are now in. If this is small and that is small, and we continue spending and spending, it becomes a habit which then leads to spending out of control. This has happened with both the federal government and with the public at large. It is past time to change the habit.