{"id":196489,"date":"2008-04-22T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/22\/congresscritters-missing-the-forest-for-the-trees\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T04:18:00","slug":"congresscritters-missing-the-forest-for-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/22\/congresscritters-missing-the-forest-for-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Congresscritters Missing the Forest for the Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Reps. Neil Abercrombie, D-HI, Lynn Westmoreland, R-GA <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5j76N3Q_r5I2fK4WB7RuCdnQn6b7gD9040A1O0\">have decided that a Congressional investigation of the college football bowl system is warranted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They are missing the bigger point, which is that the US taxpayer is funding NCAA Division I sports are not a non profit activity, they are a for profit activity in which a cartel of institutions have conspired to prevent their employees, so-called &#8220;student atheletes&#8221;, from being paid, and for which alumni donations are tax deductible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Reps. Neil Abercrombie, D-HI, Lynn Westmoreland, R-GA have decided that a Congressional investigation of the college football bowl system is warranted. They are missing the bigger point, which is that the US taxpayer is funding NCAA Division I sports are not a non profit activity, they are a for profit activity in which a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,968,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-education","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}