Posted on 01/24/2017 5:49:11 PM PST by Hojczyk
We are not their owners and it is privatized. We fund a small part of their revenue and that’s it. The government does not own PBS or NPR.
Upchuck - stop it. I’m glad the article was posted. Do you really think, someone is going to go back to 1-19 to read the story. Good grief. Please post a thank you to the poster, otherwise, I would not have seen it.
Why should other stations have to compete against a government funded network? If NPR/PBS is so wonderful, they’ll find other funding. If Trump can get those whiny liberals out of my pocket, I’ll thank him for it.
NAH! NAH! NAH! NAH!
HEY! HEY! HEY!
GOOD-BYE!!
How much government money does NPR/PBS actually get? I have read that percentage wise, it is very low. NPR/PBS get funds from other sources including grants from foundations and corporations......which is essentially a commercial.
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Does your “correct direction” include unifying the country?
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Unifying the country? When’s THAT ever happened??
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I believe that is one of Trump’s stated strategic goals.
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Can’t please everyone all the time (GOVT can’t help but infringe upon Rights)
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Defunding PBS, a piddling budget item, takes us in the opposite direction, while satisfying the purist Conservative agenda merely for its own sake. Nothing much gained and a lot will be lost in the culture wars.
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Million here, million there...But, if it’s ‘piddling’, then there’s really no complaint about stopping it, yes?
Yes, the ‘purists’; should would hate to actually FOLLOW the Constitution once in a while (see ‘piddling’, above).
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To have a unified country with a population as varied as ours, we will all have to give up a little something here and there.
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Spoken like a true Statist, and entirely incorrect. As I pointed out, there will ALWAYS be those ‘unhappy’ = NOT ‘unified’; how well has that ‘War on Poverty’ been going?
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Trump doesn’t do purist, he does practical. Let’s see what happens. I’m betting PBS stays pretty much as is.
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Oh, I’m not doubting it’ll stay where it is. There’s not a party that upholds and defends the Constitution anywhere in govt.
Good.
5.56mm
NPR is so vile I have to mute them at the top of the hour when I listen to my Classical Music.
IF, National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) are so damned good, let them swim or sink in the capitalist system they demean.
Statist? Me? Because I question whether it makes sense to defund PBS? I thought name calling was the MO of liberals at a loss for a coherent argument. You must be the exception.
I’ve watched all of Trump’s rallies for the past year and I don’t recall his mentioning defunding PBS even once. I guess you’ll eventually have to call him a statist too.
But I quickly lose interest in conversing with name-callers. So ... buh bye.
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Statist? Me? Because I question whether it makes sense to defund PBS?
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No, but for the verbiage used. There is no ‘sense’ RE: PBS. It is, or it is NOT, an authorized function of taxpayer expenditure\govt authority.
YOU, as a Citizen, are free to give ANY amount of time\property to XYZ as you wish. Not steal from the taxpayers for ones’ own ‘pet project’.
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I thought name calling was the MO of liberals at a loss for a coherent argument. You must be the exception.
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Well, when one espouses “For the public ‘good’...”, I think the moniker is correct. That thinking doesn’t particularly jive vs. ‘small’\Constitutional govt...but I haven’t found (C) to be any better than us ‘kooky’ {L) [though they hold no Federal positions that *I* am aware].
Outstanding. Pull the plug and privatize all the crappy cartoons.
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