Good, I'm glad to hear government funding is such small potatoes to them -- if so wtf are we in that business.LOL; we all know that until they start looking at Medicare and to a lesser degree Social Security there is no way they really cut the deficit significantly AND on an ongoing basis.
Re deficit: a billion here, a billion there, soon you are talking real money. Next up is Reid's "cowboy poetry" festival. Originally Posted by pjorourke
Fuck Yeah!No, PJ wants an ignorant public so we can spend a billion bucks on a plane we don't need. He read it in the Tea Party Constitution that it is ok to waste money on Defense No common sense arguments will change his mind. He has a yappy dog photo for folks that disagree with him!
If we don't clamp down on this government spending soon we'll be doing things like buying airplanes that cost $1B each, or dropping $400M on a bridge to nowhere, or spending $2.7B to build a single destroyer that the Navy doesn't want and says it doesn't need.
Mark my words on this. If we give "these clowns" $450M to do things like produce education televisions shows for children there'll be no end to the waste and sloth we'll have to deal with in Washington. Public broadcasting is exactly the kind of program that we need to concentrate on in trying to cut out all of this wasteful and useless federal spending.
Cheers,
Mazo. Originally Posted by Mazomaniac
Fuck Yeah!Kill it all!
If we don't clamp down on this government spending soon we'll be doing things like buying airplanes that cost $1B each, or dropping $400M on a bridge to nowhere, or spending $2.7B to build a single destroyer that the Navy doesn't want and says it doesn't need. Originally Posted by Mazomaniac
Mark my words on this. If we give "these clowns" $450M to do things like produce education televisions shows for children there'll be no end to the waste and sloth we'll have to deal with in Washington. Public broadcasting is exactly the kind of program that we need to concentrate on in trying to cut out all of this wasteful and useless federal spending. Originally Posted by MazomaniacNo, "public television" is exactly what the government should not be funding. A lot of it is quality TV that would find a market, without the government dole. Today's cable systems have 100+ channels and they are crying for good content. There is no shortage of money to pay for the production of good TV. In fact, people knowledgeable about the industry claim that this is the golden age of TV. Shows can be profitably produced that only have 1 million member audiences or less. In the days when the three nets controlled everything (including the news), this couldn't happen.
No, "public television" is exactly what the government should not be funding. A lot of it is quality TV that would find a market, without the government dole. Today's cable systems have 100+ channels and they are crying for good content. There is no shortage of money to pay for the production of good TV. In fact, people knowledgeable about the industry claim that this is the golden age of TV. Shows can be profitably produced that only have 1 million member audiences or less. In the days when the three nets controlled everything (including the news), this couldn't happen. Originally Posted by pjorourkeDamn right!
OK, here is my objective question to whoever knows the answer: most everybody is posting about public television, yet the article was about NPR (National Public Radio). How is PBS (television) and NPR (radio) interlocked? Originally Posted by charlestudor2005What they're trying to kill is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. CPB funds the public radio and TV stations that carry PBS and NPR programming. Kill CPB and you effectively take out all three.
The right loves to focus this argument on the "politics" of NPR but it's Big Bird's head on the chopping block too. Originally Posted by MazomaniacThe hell it is. Children Television Workshop (CTW) is a separate and very profitable company. http://supportus.sesameworkshop.org/...STATEMENTS.PDF