It took less than seven days last week for a handful of political appointees on the Federal Election Commission to open up vast loopholes allowing the very fund-raising barred by the statute.
The very funding that allows challenges to the dominant position of the press will be lost.
The very funding mechanism of the licence fee – a tax on television sets – is beginning to look outmoded and shaky in the world of catch-up, the tablet and the smartphone.
To date those same politicians have denied the population access to the very funds that can provide the resources the population wants, not just now but after retirement, because they've insisted people's spare cash must go into shares.
Indeed, the very funding of these theaters has always been based on a mission to provide the public with works that carry a significance not usually associated with contemporary writers of popular comedy, even the most successful ever.
We lose some of the profits it earns us, and then we have to subsidise it as well, from the very funds we have gained from the sell-off.
By withdrawing the very funding that supports this nation's homeless safety net, HUD is leading the nation down a perilous path.
Adding to the risks is a circular lending dynamic in which Slovenia's own banks have been lending cash to the government -- the very funds the government has in turn lent to the banks.
Senator Kirk sits on that committee, and he voted for the appropriations bill that cuts the very funding source states and municipalities rely on to fix their aging infrastructure and prevent things like....um.... sewage overflows.
In all this, the sad realization, and here's that gut check that should signal a compromise of integrity or ethics, the very funding many individuals and organizations are allotted is predicated upon deficit model thinking where those being served are viewed first and most prominently as victims.
More generally, the very funding models that give rise to the observed distortions in the health service mix discourages any redirection of resources to address them.
