Gov’t Spending
Let’s put the “Big Bird” nonsense to bed for once and for all and move on. Were one to have viewed the ‘Presidential’ debate, 10/3, on the PBS Network, one would have heard a PBS representative tell the viewers during the follow-up commentary, Big Bird is quite safe and isn’t going anywhere. He stated that PBS is quite solvent with funding from commercials, corporate funding, private beneficiaries and of course, the millions of dollars it draws in from it’s regular fund-raising campaigns. No Little One’s, he isn’t going to become “Chickey Chow Mien”.
Barry Jones
Queen Creek
Mike McClellan posted at 9:45 am on Fri, Oct 19, 2012.
PBS funding in the federal budget? $450 million, most of which goes to local stations around the country.
Total federal budget? Around $1 trillion
Yeah, Romney's really making the tough decisions with his Big Bird comment, ready to cut Big Bird but keeping the ethanol subsidies, which is a $6 billion giveaway.
And while he cuts Big Bird's $450 million, he wants to add $2 trillion over ten years to defense spending, hundreds of billions more than the Defense Department requests.
Dale Whiting posted at 8:38 am on Sat, Oct 20, 2012.
Mike,
Excellent points. Big Bird is safe. But he might not appear on as many public stations if Romney gets his way.
I support PBS. Do you?
We are poised to make a whole heck of a lot of mistakes if Romney gets elected, Unless of course Romney version 1.0 comes back into being! Care to take a change.
VofReason posted at 1:47 pm on Mon, Oct 22, 2012.
Does anyone really believe that if PBS is not funded by tax dollars that rural communities will not get access to news or educational television? Than what is the argument to keep funding it without bringing any other funding into the conversation. I guess that is what people with education in their background lean back to. If the argement doesn't hold on it's own, find something else to compare it against. I will make the case that there are a number of people that would do a better job that the current President. Mitt Romney just happens to be the one they settled on to represent the Republican party. Dale, how many ,in your "conservative Republican" mind, mistakes has this administration made? This should be good.
DonMey posted at 3:43 pm on Mon, Oct 22, 2012.
I can only assume from Mike's comment, that he believes the money doesn't count unless it hits at least half a billion?
Mike McClellan posted at 6:49 pm on Mon, Oct 22, 2012.
You think Romney could find $450 million in waste in the defense budget? Apparently not, because he wants to add $1 trillion more in defense spending beyond what the Pentagon's asked, over the next ten years.
And not a peep from him about things like the ethanol subsidies, which cost us a bit more than Big Bird.
But that's okay, because Big Bird is Big Government, right?
What a bunch of baloney.
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