Posted on 11/11/2010 8:08:28 AM PST by jimbo123
The co-chairs of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform has recommended zeroing out funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as one way to help save $200 billion.
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According to a draft of the proposals, released Wednesday, that cutting the $500 million worth of funding for NPR and PBS stations is just one of many "painful" cuts that could help achieve that savings.
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"Foreclosing on Sesame Street is not the answer to reducing our national deficit," said Free Press President Josh Silver.
*** “Foreclosing on Sesame Street is not the answer to reducing our national deficit,” said Free Press President Josh Silver. ***
No, Josh, it’s not THE answer, but it’s a start!
If PBS and NPR are of such high value, then there should be thousands of wealthy liberals more than willing to fork over the cash to keep them funded. Right?
Right?
> crickets <
Sesame Street would long ago have been self-supporting and even wildly profitable had its merchandising tie-in revenues — toys, kids clothes, etc. — all gone back to PBS instead of into the pockets of a couple of the producers.
Disney or Nickelodeon Channel would snatch Sesame Street up in a heartbeat.
The free market can do wonders for an already proven product.
“The co-chairs of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform has recommended zeroing out funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as one way to help save $200 billion.”
Well, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Still, a plan that does nothing about this:
is worthless.
Exactly. A little here, a little there will make a difference in the long run. I would stop all of these donations until the deficit is zero. That goes for money going out of this country also. Added up, it makes a big difference.
PBS and NPR should be cut off regardless of the recommendations of this commission. They’re unnecessary leaches on the taxpayer.
I pray that this will happen.
But...Yes, you are right without addressing the entitlements the budget will not be balanced.
Painful? Really? Try excruciatingly satisfying. Total Cheer and Delight!
What is really beginning to annoy me is the deafening silence about welfare reform. Social Security/Medicare, Social Security/Medicare,Social Security/Medicare, but never anything about welfare.
It's like, “OK grandpa, you paid into this your whole life, but now you are just going to have to die” while down the street, to the slut that can't keep her legs closed it's, “we'll take care of these six, you go ahead and start working on number seven.”
One is ultimately a self-solving problem, the other is a self-perpetuating problem. At some point we better wake up to the real threat!
There is nothing “painful” about that cut. It is a no-brainer first step.
After opening each House of Representatives session with a prayer, they should continue with a reading of the Tenth Amendment. Every day.
After that, we should cut deeply into the National Science Foundation (see my book, SCIENCE FUNDING: POLITICS AND PORKBARREL to see how Federal funding has corrupted the scientific establishment in the US.)
Maybe by then we'll have the guts to end subsidies for "alternative" energy, farm price supports, and entitlements.
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