Meetings have already been held involving Gingrich and Senator Larry Pressler with Rupert Murdoch of the Fox Network, John Malone of TCI and executives from Bell Atlantic, to discuss the carving up of the public airwaves. In the Newt world disorder the notion of a public space or place is non-existent. Comments about the lack of money are transparently absurd. The U.S. spends more money on the military than the rest of the world combined. Aid to Israel continues at record levels.
Billions are available for giant agribusiness subsidies.
Tens of billions are available for the bailout of Wall Street investors who are holding Mexican tesobonos, junk bonds. Corporations pay fewer taxes today than they did thirty years ago. The tax code provides numerous loopholes. The notion of the market is applied selectively. The political system imposes welfare, tax writeoffs, subsidies and bailouts for the rich and market discipline for everyone else.