{"id":8754,"date":"2015-09-28T20:39:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T00:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=8754"},"modified":"2015-09-28T20:39:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T00:39:04","slug":"mp3-talking-govt-waste-on-penn-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/mp3-talking-govt-waste-on-penn-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"MP3 &#8211; Talking Govt. Waste on Penn. 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We had fun talking about my recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2015\/08\/31\/the-end-of-the-christopher-columbus-fellowship-foundation-not-so-fast\">U.S. News article on the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation<\/a>\u00a0and why it is so difficult to end wasteful government spending.\u00a0 When Congress passes a huge omnibus bill, it is sometimes impossible to learn which\u00a0politician finagled each spending windfall.\u00a0\u00a0 This is one of the few wasteful spending issues that President Obama opposes.<\/p>\n<p>Doug zeroed in on an award the foundation gave to\u00a0&#8220;students in Roan Mountain, Tennessee, for a solar-powered device to alert people that playground equipment surfaces become hot during sunny summer days.&#8221; He suggested that there was no need for a federal program to notify kids of the peril of a hot sliding board. 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