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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Good news! Canada hereby extends asylum to Big Bird, and all the folks on Sesame Street. Of course when they move up here they must change the name of the street to Muktuk Street, And Big Bird must become Big Ootpix. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
The people who run the Chidren's workshop are multi-millionaires yet they were given over a miilion dollars out of our last stimulus package. It created about 1.5 jobs. Screws loose somewhere. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
The people who run the Chidren's workshop are multi-millionaires yet they were given over a miilion dollars out of our last stimulus package. It created about 1.5 jobs. Link. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
The people who run the Chidren's workshop are multi-millionaires yet they were given over a miilion dollars out of our last stimulus package. It created about 1.5 jobs. Do you have any info to back up your assertion? If you do please share it. |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
As John Stewart brought up last night cutting PBS is less of a saving than cutting the Billions of BIG Oil freebies for doing what Oil companies are supposed to do. Search and drill for oil. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-october-8-2012/children-s-television-chop-shop---this-week-with-george-snuffleupagus http://www.thepolypost.com/opinion/big-bird-boasts-bigger-budget-burden/article_a63a58ec-11b2-11e2-bbea-0019bb30f31a.html The Corporation for Public Broadcasting receives about $430 million per year to run PBS, NPR and other smaller public stations and programs. PBS funding is currently about 0.012 percent of the federal budget. Big oil gets about 10X PBS gets but PBS actually provides a service for us. In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Ex: "Socialist" Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 3433 Credit: 2,616,158 RAC: 2 |
I must say, yes the Children's Television Workshop people have always managed to be in the green. I do not see that as a reason to cut any funding. PBS provides a service to families across this country... As a child, we didn't have money in my family, we lived in the projects. We had no cable, education was not good. However I'd credit PBS and Children's Television Workshop for contributing to my learning, as well as values. It definitely played an important role in my life, and perhaps without it I could have ended up illiterate and/or unemployable. If anyone has a problem with CTW receiving 1M, please look at the multi-millions being handed out to very very rich corporations who have never had a positive hands-on effect on anyones life besides their CEO's. Luckily, CTW will survive with or without 1 Million$. But I'd hate to think that we're coming to such a point in this country that we're going to attack small moneys that make a huge difference. If more media outlets/producers were more like PBS/CTW, we would have a much more educated public in the US. (As I wrote this message my son was watching Sesame Street.) #resist |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
+1^ MY kids loved watching that show and so did I. Not sure who liked it more. All my grand children like it also. Jeez we can subsidize big oil for billions and to save money we are going to cut funding to PBS that has shows that people enjoy watching. I hope Big Bird poops on his head. [/quote] Old James |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
“Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive†― Neil deGrasse Tyson Reality Internet Personality |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Cor blimey....is that a minature Maple Leaf on my flag? |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
Nobody in here has looked at PBS's latest financial statement, have you? It's available on-line since they're a 501c(3). Again with the blanket statement. Taxing the rich to get back part of what should have been paid over the last 10 years is just a start. Cuts must be made and certainly I would put cutting corporate welfare on the chopping block. Big business does not need handouts. AS I recall and you have noted PBS/NPR/CTW all are not for profits setup by the Gov't and PUBLICly funded. The public funding has been cut massively in the last 3 decades as conservates found ways to get at the meager cost as a tax burden and not a benefit. Shame on Conservatives. $455 millions is an incredible small price to pay to get kids exposed to numbers letters and making education fun. In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
And for this thread to be started from and commented on from (what appears to be) Canadian citizens, well, I'm speechless. How about the CBC start funding PBS and NPR $445M/year when we quit doing it since it's so important for the viewers just north of the border? It's only $445M/year. Pennies in the bucket. You wouldn't even notice it. No need to worry. They'll be funding it once they're annexed. $455 millions is an incredible small price to pay to get kids exposed to numbers letters and making education fun. And here I thought that's what all the billions for schools are for. For shame on the teachers. me@rescam.org |
BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
Here is something else conservatives have cut funding for: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/jason-chaffetz-embassy_n_1954912.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009&utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Guy, I think most feel the budget should be addressed with both cuts and revenue increases. You are creating a straw man argument. |
BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
Guy, the reason it makes the Teapublicans look bad is at the moment, they are busily trying to nail folks in the State Department for inadequate security in Benghazi -- without taking any responsibility themselves. Responsibility is a critical element of governance. As to the show me the math (your identity of the day), if the Teapublicans were not so mathematically illiterate, they would not buy the Romney/Ryan plans for tax cuts, an *extra* trillion dollars over the next decade, and 'cuts' to balance the budget. I am for a balanced approach -- I believe that IF there was political will we could see the budget pushed down from 24% of GDP to 20% of GDP -- along with revenues brought back up from 16% of GDP to 20% of GDP -- that is essentially the balance that was in place from around 1950 to 2001. Sadly, that IF is a major sticking point, as we have an ideology of Cut everything but military and cut taxes on one side matched by a 'protect medicare, medicaid and social security and have the very rich pay for it on the other. Neither works. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Four Americans died in Benghazi. I suppose you could reduce the seriousness of that by just calling it four extremely late abortions. Or, we could give it the attention it deserves and figure out who's RESPONSIBLE so we can take action to reduce the risk of more Americans dying. Killing gubment funding for NASCAR is a no brainer. |
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