$2,000,000 is chickenfeed in federal budget terms. But, for those of us who would like to see our money spent wisely, it's a goodly sum. We have spent this amount and more each year for the past several years flying a plane over Cuba beaming American-sponsored tv programming; over the past six years we've spent $24,000,000. There is only a very small problem with this effort: Cuba has jammed the tv signal so that maybe 1% of the programming gets through.
To its credit the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors,
which is in charge of the program, has asked Congress to scrap the program, citing
its exorbitant expense and dubious cost-effectiveness. But anti-Castro legislators have rejected the request.
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