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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%
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LookingGlass said:
They need to be cut...period. So what if Inez from BFE Nebraska isn't going to see Sesame Street. Cut it yesterday!
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I always thought Sesame Street was entertaining and educational at the same time. And, what about the Electric Company. Seriously, a child, I learned what a conjunction was used for -and- (conjunction) how to transition my sentences to higher heights as a direct result! I learned about how a "bill" becomes a "law," and I learned how to enunciate the s-ou-nds of my words much better as a small child. PBS rocks!

Why on earth would anybody want to cut that? Oh, wait a minute. We are talking about our Federal Government are we not. Well, ehem... in that case, the call for cuts make much more sense now. :screwy
 
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PW4000 said:
I always thought Sesame Street was entertaining and educational at the same time. And, what about the Electric Company. Seriously, a child, I learned what a conjunction was used for -and- (conjunction) how to transition my sentences to higher heights as a direct result! I learned about how a "bill" becomes a "law," and I learned how to enunciate the s-ou-nds of my words much better as a small child. PBS rocks!

Why on earth would anybody want to cut that? Oh, wait a minute. We are talking about our Federal Government are we not. Well, ehem... in that case, the call for cuts make much more sense now. :screwy
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Is that your CENTRIST opinion?
 
American said:
Is that your CENTRIST opinion?
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Absolutely! I don't hide or shy away from it either. ;)

Come on - how can you want to pull the plug on that which brought you this: (turn our volume way up)



"I'm going to get there, if you're veeeeeery careful."

Now, you sit here and tell me that after all these years, you still don't have your Conjunction Junction groove fully in gear? This was epic genius on the part of PBS, and from the looks of things in the United States today, more people could have benefited from learning more about Grammar this way.

Pure genius, was PBS when they put this out there. Here, I've got some more for you to reminisce abut. You will absolutely love this one:



We can send half the people on this board back to Conjunction Function and School House Rock, just so they can develop better writing skills! We can't get rid of this - we just can't.

PBS Rocks, and (conjunction function) it always has. That's my CENTRIST view point. ;)
 
Oh, I used to love this one!



Epic Educational Genius for young people. Nothing short of absolutely wonderful bliss.

O' the days of long ago. How I remember thee. How is it, that thou hast been forgotten amongst the deeply rooted weeds of television scripts void of redeemable content and substance of today. O' How we thirst for the grammatical nectar that once flowed from your lips to our dry, dusty and barren ears, which entered our minds, whereupon your eloquence and intellectual charm took advantage of our youth and in return made us strong in the written word. Must we say goodbye?

They helped to make me the writer I am today. Not the best, but certainly not the worst. Oh, yeah! PBS Rocks!
 
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Ikari said:
Millions is NOT a lot on the scale of the government budget. No. We have spent well over a TRILLION on wars we didn't need to get involved in. BILLIONS in subsidies and tax breaks for protected groups. We have laws which are out of control, a significant portion of our adult population will be in jail at some point in their lives. But yes, let's worry about a few million. You know how much a million is to a billion or trillion?
People really need to learn math.
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The journey of 14 trillion miles begins with the first step.....saying we shouldnt take the first step because its just a small step...........is why the journey is 14 trillion miles long and growing.
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PW4000 said:
I always thought Sesame Street was entertaining and educational at the same time. And, what about the Electric Company. Seriously, a child, I learned what a conjunction was used for -and- (conjunction) how to transition my sentences to higher heights as a direct result! I learned about how a "bill" becomes a "law," and I learned how to enunciate the s-ou-nds of my words much better as a small child. PBS rocks!

Why on earth would anybody want to cut that? Oh, wait a minute. We are talking about our Federal Government are we not. Well, ehem... in that case, the call for cuts make much more sense now. :screwy
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If PBS and NPR are so vital.......

.......Im sure you and your liberal buddies will find a way to fund it. We The People are out.......
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Badmutha said:
If PBS and NPR are so vital.......

.......Im sure you and your liberal buddies will find a way to fund it. We The People are out.......
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What smaller scale government programs do you approve of?
 
tryreading said:
What smaller scale government programs do you approve of?
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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

....none at the Federal Level.....as they cant even handle the large scale ones.
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Badmutha said:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

....none at the Federal Level.....as they cant even handle the large scale ones.
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So kill the National Park Service, NASA, OSHA and many others?
 
tryreading said:
What smaller scale government programs do you approve of?
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To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

The Congress could try doing that since the privately owned company illegally doing it now isn't doing such a swell job.

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

These go together. Why hasn't Congress authorized privateers to fix the pirates-in-a-dinghy problem?

Because it's too busy doing those things it's not supposed to do instead. Some examples of this are:

NPR
NEA
Dept of Education
Dept of Energy
Dept of Labor
Welfare
Social Security
etc etc etc.
 
tryreading said:
More specifics would be good. What are all the un-Constitutional programs?
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting
National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities
Department of Education and associated federal funding of education on all levels
All welfare expenditures
All corporate subsidies
All farm subsidies
Federal loan guarantees for education, home ownership, anything else.
Social Security
Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare
Food and Drug Administration

The list is long, axe those and get back to the Americans for another.
 
tryreading said:
So kill the National Park Service, NASA, OSHA and many others?
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Yep.

States have the authority to regulate workplace safety, the Congress does not.

NASA services some military functions and those may remain, the rest is up to the states or private investors. Given that NASA has destroyed the manned space program, what does the country have to lose by losing NASA? NADA.
 
GhostlyJoe said:
Yet what's essential is subjective. For example, I value the post office, and many businesses rely on it. I'd vote to save it. Same with something like Title X. I see its value, and from my limited reading about it, there's a good argument that it actually saves money based on the value it creates. Is cutting it really a step in the right direction?

That's what I mean about these political battles. We're spending political capital anyway. Basically, we're wasting our ammo on field mice when there's a herd of buffalo coming over the hill.
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If the fire power to kill rodents doesn't exist, there's no way the old buffalo is going down.

But, kill the field mice in their millions and discover how to poison the buffalo, too.
 
I was watching a West Wing episode from 1999 yesterday and it was pretty amazing because it was dealing with lots of budget cut issues. The Republicans' main focus in the episode was the funding of PBS and the NEA. Obviously Sorkin is somewhat biased on this point, but the response was pretty good. Paraphrase: "The NEA costs taxpayers 39c per year and is the size of Sweden's. And you all complain constantly about the amount of sex and violence in video games, and yet you want to cut Sesame Street?"
 
I was floored by the comments from the NPR head regarding the firing of Juan Williams. She has such a seething hatred of conservatives it was frightening. How could such a person be in charge of an organization which by all rights should be sorta moderate? I'm concerned about people that are so set in their beliefs that they just can't even accept the other side as friends or even relatives. I think it's incredible childish and small.
 
tryreading said:
So kill the National Park Service, NASA, OSHA and many others?
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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people

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Mayor Snorkum said:
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

The Congress could try doing that since the privately owned company illegally doing it now isn't doing such a swell job.

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

These go together. Why hasn't Congress authorized privateers to fix the pirates-in-a-dinghy problem?

Because it's too busy doing those things it's not supposed to do instead. Some examples of this are:

NPR
NEA
Dept of Education
Dept of Energy
Dept of Labor
Welfare
Social Security
etc etc etc.
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Well, we could argue about what the Constitution allows, as far as latitude beyond the numerated responsibilities. But at least you named specific programs, many large enough to make a difference in the budget. Of course, your representatives won't tackle them anytime soon.
 
sazerac said:
I was floored by the comments from the NPR head regarding the firing of Juan Williams. She has such a seething hatred of conservatives it was frightening. How could such a person be in charge of an organization which by all rights should be sorta moderate? I'm concerned about people that are so set in their beliefs that they just can't even accept the other side as friends or even relatives. I think it's incredible childish and small.
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Could you refresh my memory as to what those comments were that expressed seething hatred of conservatives? IIRC, the whole Juan Williams incident had little to do with conservatives and more to do with Juan's stupid comments and liberal PC bull**** on the part of the people who fired him.
 
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StillBallin75 said:
Could you refresh my memory as to what those comments were that expressed seething hatred of conservatives? IIRC, the whole Juan Williams incident had little to do with conservatives and more to do with Juan's stupid comments and liberal PC bull**** on the part of the people who fired him.
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He was fired for saying that he would be nervous if a group of Musim men got on the plane.

Here's a good representation of people like the head of the NPR and all other liberals!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAyCdfOXvec
 
sazerac said:
He was fired for saying that he would be nervous if a group of Musim men got on the plane.

Here's a good representation of people like the head of the NPR and all other liberals!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAyCdfOXvec
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I know what got him fired. That has literally NOTHING to do with conservatives. Juan Williams is a liberal. Voicing concerns about men in Islamic garb on a plane is neither a "liberal" nor "conservative" position. And for the record many liberals (including those on this forum) are not in favor of intervention in Libya. You don't know most liberals, you don't know if the head of NPR supported Libyan intervention, and you definitely don't know if the video is a "good representation of all liberals." To make such an assumption is moronic.
 
StillBallin75 said:
I know what got him fired. That has literally NOTHING to do with conservatives. Juan Williams is a liberal. Voicing concerns about men in Islamic garb on a plane is neither a "liberal" nor "conservative" position. And for the record many liberals (including those on this forum) are not in favor of intervention in Libya. You don't know most liberals, you don't know if the head of NPR supported Libyan intervention, and you definitely don't know if the video is a "good representation of all liberals." To make such an assumption is moronic.
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It's EXACTLY a good representation of ALL liberals - dumb whiny children! The story wasn't about Juan Williams being fired. The story was about THE WAY he was fired - by that whiny childish liberal head of NPR.
 
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