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De-fund NPR and PBS

Defund NPR and PBS!

  • I agree!

    Votes: 41 47.7%
  • I disagree.

    Votes: 45 52.3%

  • Total voters
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The vast majority of NPR funding is private. Mayor snorkum is merely avariciously spiteful at this fact.

Boy, you people can stop with the personal attacks, can you?

If NPR is sufficiently financed by private donation to be inependent as you claim, then there is no need for the government finance it by stealing money from people who do not listen to it. You people are claiming that NPR is fiscally solvent and then claiming that the taxpayer MUST fund it.

Well, which is it?

Mayor Snorkum says that if the taxpayer is funding it, then NPR MUST be subject to the "Fairness Doctrine", and have it's airtime must be devoted to the right side of issues. The Fairness Doctrine must not be applied to privately own commercial broadcasters, but if the taxpayer is funding NPR it is only right that NPR start presenting the side of the issues that benefits Americans and not just liberals.
 
Why does every Conservative think that everything the government does has to be written in the Constitution?

Good gawd......testament to why Freedom and Liberty are dying on the vine in this country.....and why a small piece of the Constitution should be placed on the roll in every liberal's bathroom....and a picture of a Forefather or Founder inscribed in the toilet bowl.
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Let me try this one more time in words (hopefully) you can understand...

The Constitution does NOT outline every detail that affects our society nor does it outline every responsibility of Congress or the authority of the President, but it DOES grant Congress the powoer to write laws it believes will bring about "good order and discipline" within our society, as well as granting the President certain authority under the law. Within these laws is deliniated who has what authority to do such and such. For example, under the Constitution, only Congress has the authority to declare war. Under the Patriot Act, only Congress has the authority to extend that law. See how that works?

If you want to know why PBS and NPR exist or why Congress provides funding for same, I suggest you read the Public Broadcasting Act, not the Constitution.
 
So government holds the purse strings......but they "don't run it".......

So a statist.....listening to statist radio......decides everything the state says is 100% true.

The Democrat Party holds the purse strings of PBS and NPR.......and PBS and NPR dont have an agenda?

.......I mean you seriously believe this?

Tell you what, why don't we just burn every newpaper, magazine, book, close down every news station except FoxNews and just sit in our super secret underground bunkers in a non-descript location with the glow of our TV's tuned only to Fox and wait until we get the all clear from Sean Hannity, Bill O'Rielly or better yet Glenn Beck to come out and play?

Will that suit you?

Some people are just so freaking #@#$@#!$%!!! :roll:
 
Let me try this one more time in words (hopefully) you can understand...

The Constitution does NOT outline every detail that affects our society nor does it outline every responsibility of Congress or the authority of the President, but it DOES grant Congress the powoer to write laws it believes will bring about "good order and discipline" within our society, as well as granting the President certain authority under the law. Within these laws is deliniated who has what authority to do such and such. For example, under the Constitution, only Congress has the authority to declare war. Under the Patriot Act, only Congress has the authority to extend that law. See how that works?

If you want to know why PBS and NPR exist or why Congress provides funding for same, I suggest you read the Public Broadcasting Act, not the Constitution.

I really think you should check this out sometime........The United States Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net.......its a good read......

And then check out some of the Author's other work.........


"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare,
and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare,
they may take the care of religion into their own hands;
they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish
and pay them out of their public treasury;
they may take into their own hands the education of children,
establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union;
they may assume the provision of the poor;
they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads;
in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation
down to the most minute object of police,
would be thrown under the power of Congress.... Were the power
of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for,
it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature
of the limited Government established by the people of America."


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No. Limbaugh satisfies a market-based need. NPR doesn't have the guts to compete in the free marketplace of ideas.

Limbaugh peddles ideas? I think not.
 
Why does every Conservative think that everything the government does has to be written in the Constitution?

So why bother having a Constitution? Government can do whatever it wants.......



God Help Us.....
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I really think you should check this out sometime........The United States Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net.......its a good read......

I have. Hence, how I came across this from Art I, Sect. 8:

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

We're done...

You ARE the weakest link...goodbye. :2wave:
 
I have. Hence, how I came across this from Art I, Sect. 8:



We're done...

You ARE the weakest link...goodbye. :2wave:

So "Government can do whatever it wants"........just say it already.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
--Thomas Jefferson--Hater of NPR and PBS
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So "Government can do whatever it wants"........just say it already.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
--Thomas Jefferson--Hater of NPR and PBS
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No, that is simply a slippery slope fallacy. Just because the government can do some things does not mean it can do anything it wants.
 
So "Government can do whatever it wants"........just say it already.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
--Thomas Jefferson--Hater of NPR and PBS

I'm pretty sure NPR didn't exist back in the 1700/1800's...

Seriously though, you're going to draw that conclusion from that quote?
 
Nothing could demonstrate the power of true democracy more than the freedom of people to express their desires by spending or witholding funds from a given enterprise.

Nothing can demonstrate the fear the left has towards true democracy than their need to deny people their freedom to express that choice.

Then why can't I have my taxpayer's dollars go to NPR instead of to the congressional-military-industrial complex?
 
As our Forefathers and Founders turn in their graves.....at even the notion of Government Radio and TV......

.....I say cut every bloody cent of funding for NPR and PBS.....yesterday.
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Considering how ardently the Founding Fathers favored education and open debate, I think they would much prefer tax-paid informative public radio available to all the social strata of Americans rather than whatever crap brings in ratings that corporations are willing to shovel like slop to the lowest common denominator in order to get enough advertising to sell their consumerist drivel.
 
I don't care about PBS or NPR, other American stations have enough money to run themselves.

But here in Canada, the CBC is a necessity. If there was no CBC, we'd be quickly over flown with American content and our culture would be completely assimilated in a matters of years.

So in such a rich country like yours that holds most of the worlds good TV and Radio producers, go ahead, scrap the federal stations. But Canada and other countries need them.
 
So "Government can do whatever it wants"........just say it already.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
--Thomas Jefferson--Hater of NPR and PBS
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I don't think NPR and PBS were available during Thomas Jefferson's time.
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Considering how ardently the Founding Fathers favored education and open debate, I think they would much prefer tax-paid informative public radio available to all the social strata of Americans rather than whatever crap brings in ratings that corporations are willing to shovel like slop to the lowest common denominator in order to get enough advertising to sell their consumerist drivel.

.....and you think that exists or has ever existed at NPR or PBS?
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.....and you think that exists or has ever existed at NPR or PBS?
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I hope you realize that NPR and PBS don't control all media, and brainwash people. That's basically what you're implying, and thats stupid beyond all reason.
 
I hope you realize that NPR and PBS don't control all media, and brainwash people. That's basically what you're implying, and thats stupid beyond all reason.

I did not imply that at all about DNC GOVERNMENT RADIO/TV INC...........
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Do you agree or disagree that we need to stop giving federal $$ to NPR and PBS? I'd like someone who disagree with the defunding, to give some good reasons why the taxpayers should be forced to give money to a radio and TV station.

Thank you.

I voted that we should de-fund PBS,NPR and any other tax payer funded tv or radio station. These things have no business being funded by tax payers. If a business can not survive on its own then it should fail. I love This Old House, Ask This Old, new Yankee Workshop and a variety of other shows that come on PBS but at the same time those shows should not be propped up by tax payers.
 
I voted that we should de-fund PBS,NPR and any other tax payer funded tv or radio station. These things have no business being funded by tax payers. If a business can not survive on its own then it should fail. I love This Old House, Ask This Old, new Yankee Workshop and a variety of other shows that come on PBS but at the same time those shows should not be propped up by tax payers.

I agree that those shows shouldn't get taxpayer funding.

However, PBS also provides/provided funding for Sesame Street, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Wishbone.

Sesame Street and Mr. Roger's Neighborhood provides basic educational television for children. Bill Nye's show was entertainment about science for tweens. Wishbone exposed tweens to literature.

Now I don't like all of PBS' content. However, I think that taxpayer funding should focus on educational content like the kind I mentioned because, well, it's educational. I mean the educational system gets blasted for being so low, but we also have to remember that school isn't the only way people can be exposed to learning.

So here's my question to you, and to others who are willing to answer it: would you agree to NPR and PBS if they content they produced focused more on educational shows?
 
I did not imply that at all about DNC GOVERNMENT RADIO/TV INC...........
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I love that you don't even dispute that you believe NPR and PBS brainwash people :lol:
 
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