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To: Yosemitest
Sounds like dialog taken directly out of Atlas Shrugged... Was it Wesley Mooch? Don't have the book handy...

BECK: Okay. So we have this guy.
He wants to force private broadcasters to fund Public Broadcasters DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR.
So, if I understand this right, help me out, he is saying

whatever the gross operating budget is for every private radio station,
every year, they will have to pay a fee equal to that, uhm, to get their license for a year.

MOTLEY: Right.
To get their license from the FCC,
and of course, that money goes to fund stations with whom they then have to compete.

BECK: Let me ask you,

MOTLEY: Uh, okay.

BECK: Let me, let me ask you this?

What Company in America can take ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of their operation budget
and PAY IT AS A TAX and survive?

MOTLEY: Well, uh,
and then, and then, and then say

“Okay,. Now let’s start doing business.”

It’s impossible.

4 posted on 08/15/2009 8:02:03 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Fishy rumors posters" Check 'em out:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311664/posts)
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To: GOPJ

Very close...

I just re-read the book...

I have been on a recycle mode over the last year or so...I go thru some of my favorites more and more often...

- Atlas Shrugged
- Unintended Consequences
- Matt Bracken’s (Enemies trilogy)
- Rawles (Patriot)
- Jeff Head’s novels
- I snuck in Mark Levin’s new book as well
- Alas Babylon (I read it the first time when I was 12 yrs old; yeah so my Dad was a genuis, he made me read it)

Maybe it appears I’m driving my blood pressure up when I read these things, but I find myself sleeping better, I am a bit more confident that in the end we will prevail...

I do get up in the middle of the night and post my ramblings here in this website, but it makes me feel better...And if anyone dissagrees with me or tells me I am wrong...No big deal, I appreciate the corrections...

If we lost our conservative talk radio, and other TV programs we like to watch tomorrow, I think we’ll still be ok...We already know where we stand...We know who will be responsible for this,and for them to believe they will not be accountable for their actions...

hehehe, we can still toss them so hard onto the street that the next wannabe Obamanite will feel it...

I hope they don’t pull this trigger, because if they believe they are above reproach...Boy, will there be a lot of surprised liberal (statists) out there very soon...


13 posted on 08/15/2009 3:52:38 PM PDT by stevie_d_64
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