If NPR's _only_ public funding was from federal grants that it won competitively, that would be fine. But it doesn't - it gets special allocations and special privileges that aren't on the open market. It competes not through bidding, but through the political process - through getting Congressmen to vote in its favor. That's not competition. Halliburton isn't winning federal _grants_, it's winning contracts from the federal government through open bids, pretty much in the same way it wins them from private companies for which it contracts.
What competition is there for a _grant_?
How much competition was there for the Iraq contract(s)?
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