This week, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) -- once again -- pitched his 41-point plan to cut the U.S.'s $1.3 trillion deficit, which oddly and disproportionally begins with eliminating Radio and TV Marti.
According to Wisconsin's Chippewa Herald:
"Feingold said he's introduced a 41-point bill to control spending. One item would eliminate $30 million for Radio and Television Marti,
U.S. broadcasts aimed at Cuba.
'But nobody can get it,' [Feingold] said of the broadcasts."
Yet, in a moving profile yesterday, Ariel Sigler, a Cuban political prisoner who was arrested for dissent in 2003 -- as a 210-pound amateur boxer -- and released seven years later as a 100-pound paraplegic, recalled his early days as a pro-democracy activist:
"At night, [Sigler] would listen to radio broadcasts from circling U.S. C-130s, which revealed growing acts of dissent around Cuba that the state-run media never reported. He began meeting secretly with like-minded men to talk politics, but also about the struggling economy, the failing medical system, the declining education, even sports."
Clearly, it's Senator Feingold that doesn't get it.
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