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- RitchWilliams - 10-15-2012 08:19 PM
PBS has definitely outlived its usefulness. With the 800 cable channels we have out there, the many community channels, there is something out there for every one and every need. There's no reason for a government sponsored channel.
- Frank Texan - 10-15-2012 08:19 PM
There is no reason to spend taxpayer money on PBS or NPR.
Period.
- Uncle Pennybags - 10-15-2012 08:19 PM
I like PBS.
But at a time when we are borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend, we need to make cuts in spending. And many cuts will be painful. We simply cannot afford to keep doing everything.
So yes, I support cutting funding to PBS and Big Bird.
- Harry - 10-15-2012 08:19 PM
What is PBS?
- NCR Elite - 10-15-2012 08:19 PM
Do not care. Let's see, Sesame street rakes in millions and the CEO gets paid 900,000 a year, so they're doing fine.
PBS shows Peter Paul and Mary reunion concerts, stuffy old British Sitcoms, and left leaning political shows. If PBS is good enough to stay on the air it will in a free market. It's that simple
I know half a billion sounds like a mere rounding error to liberals, but if we can't even stomach getting Elmo off the government cheese what chance does our Republic have?
- $ - 10-15-2012 08:19 PM
I have never needed PBS in my entire life. I may have had it on passively without really caring what was playing. So I will support my own needs, not yours or anybody else's.
People vote for their own needs, not the needs of others. I get told I need to vote a certain way because, say, you want me to. Do you vote a certain way because of what *I* want? Didn't think so.
Parking the kids in front of TV is a P-poor way to raise them. How about getting their fat little behinds out moving around again like back in the old days when we did not have so much obesity. And pulling a few more moms away from facebook and back to their kids.
- bobemac - 10-15-2012 08:19 PM
I could care less about "big bird" and PBS!!!
VOTE OBAMA OUT!!
- whoyeah - 10-15-2012 08:19 PM
Sesame Street was brought to you today by the letter P (for poverty)
She's got pink hair, she's terribly cute and she's hungry. In a bid to reflect the harsh realities of recession-era America, the makers of the nation's favourite children's TV show have introduced a new puppet. Her name is Lily and her chief character trait is that she lives on the breadline.
The so-called "hungry Muppet" was introduced to viewers on a special episode of the programme aimed at educating the public about the growing proportion of US families suffering from what sociologists term "food insecurity."
And Conservatives are quite upset...
Thanks to the polarised state of US politics, there are few public gestures that don't provoke at least some controversy, however. And Lily has been criticised by right-leaning commentators who believe that she represents an effort to brainwash the nation's youth about the perils of unchecked capitalism.
"Why is Lily a class, a group?" asked Eric Bolling, a commentator for Fox News. "Do we single out the black Muppet? Or the Hispanic Muppet? Why do we need to single out the hungry Muppet?"
The Blaze, a blog that is very popular with American conservatives, was more succinct about the programme's new star. "Uh-oh," it announced. "It's time to redistribute the Cookie Monster's cookies!"
Lily doesn't understand why Mr. Romney wants to take away her food.
- zuma - 10-15-2012 08:19 PM
Yes,..Absolutely....
It's a ..Lie.. that PBS is profitable enough.The Big Bird Programs are not profitable enough to support all of PBS,..Neither can the Public ..
Republicans have a Vendetta to undo any group that would put them in an unfavorable light...
They want the Program..... "Front-Line".... to disappear..
Front-line... often plays the Whistle-Blower.
PBS ..Cost the Public 350 million a year,..That's Pennies compared to other Cost...
Ask Romney about his Corporate Well-fare,..write-offs, and Loopholes.,..That's where the cost is..
- ? - 10-15-2012 08:19 PM
PBS makes double just in royalties, over what they get in government grants. In hard times, you have to cut out what you don't need to survive, and the government is. I different. If PBS can't survive on its own, then it has to go. Children learn better by reading than By watching tv anyway