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Defund NPR, PBS?

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/demint-end-funding-for-npr-pbs/65012/

""Since 2001, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds programming for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, has received nearly $4 billion in taxpayer money," said DeMint. "The country is over $13 trillion in debt and Congress must find ways to start trimming the federal budget to cut spending. NPR and PBS get about 15 percent of their total budget through federal funding, so these programs should be able to find a way to stand on their own. With record debt and unemployment, there's simply no reason to force taxpayers to subsidize a liberal programming they disagree with."


It's worth the 0.0003076923 percent of the debt it entails. (did I get the number right?).
 
This is just sad. Please do not let your country, and all those who benefit from it, fall backwards in the next few years.

Sesame Street, Electric company, Cosmos, Nova, the list goes on.

Just sad...

TAM
 
applecorped said:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/demint-end-funding-for-npr-pbs/65012/

""Since 2001, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds programming for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, has received nearly $4 billion in taxpayer money," said DeMint. "The country is over $13 trillion in debt and Congress must find ways to start trimming the federal budget to cut spending. NPR and PBS get about 15 percent of their total budget through federal funding, so these programs should be able to find a way to stand on their own. With record debt and unemployment, there's simply no reason to force taxpayers to subsidize a liberal programming they disagree with."


It's worth the 0.0003076923 percent of the debt it entails. (did I get the number right?).
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That's roughly a little less than $450 million a year. It's a drop in the bucket and probably some of the best spent money we have.
 
Upchurch said:
That's roughly a little less than $450 million a year. It's a drop in the bucket and probably some of the best spent money we have.
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Just doing the math in my head, isn't that roughly the amount of money we spend in Iraq PER DAY?

ETA: I'm glad he said 2001, since that ties in with Bush's wars so neatly.
Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq - $9 billion of US taxpayers' money and $549.7 milion in spare parts shipped in 2004 to US contractors. Also, per ABC News, 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47 rifles.



Missing - $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces. (Per CBS News on Dec 6, 2007.)
Mismanaged & Wasted in Iraq - $10 billion, per Feb 2007 Congressional hearings


Halliburton Overcharges Classified by the Pentagon as Unreasonable and Unsupported - $1.4 billion



Amount paid to KBR, a former Halliburton division, to supply U.S. military in Iraq with food, fuel, housing and other items - $20 billion


Portion of the $20 billion paid to KBR that Pentagon auditors deem "questionable or supportable" - $3.2 billion


U.S. 2009 Monthly Spending in Iraq - $7.3 billion as of Oct 2009


U.S. 2008 Monthly Spending in Iraq - $12 billion


U.S. Spending per Second - $5,000 in 2008 (per Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on May 5, 2008)


Cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq - $390,000 (Congressional Research Service)
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Does NPR reflect the views of the public or George Soros? He donated $1.8 million to hire 100 reporters for 50 of its radio stations.
 
T.A.M. said:
This is just sad. Please do not let your country, and all those who benefit from it, fall backwards in the next few years.

Sesame Street, Electric company, Cosmos, Nova, the list goes on.

Just sad...

TAM
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Yes, let's keep the country from falling any more backwards than we've been doing since the Democrats took over. Please help vote them out of office and send them back to the political wilderness from whence they came.

Bill Moyers, Terry Gross, even Garrison Keillor, the list goes on.

They even wish death on people they disagree with! Their grandchildren too!

http://reason.com/blog/2010/10/21/what-wont-get-you-fired-from-n#commentcontainer

Just sad. Very sad. Time to defund NPR and PBS and have them make it on their own.
 
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Upchurch said:
That's roughly a little less than $450 million a year. It's a drop in the bucket and probably some of the best spent money we have.
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I agree. How 'bout actually trimming those programs that make a up a huge chunk of of the budget? Like Social Security, Medicare or *gasp* the military?? But no, let's do the politically safe thing and try to demonize quality programming because their news programs tend to be liberal and the science programs teach children that dinosaurs actually existed and the Big Bang is a viable explanation for how the universe was created.
 
easycruise said:
Yes, let's keep the country from falling any more backwards than we've been doing since the Democrats took over. Please help vote them out of office and send them back to the political wilderness from whence they came.

Bill Moyers, Terry Gross, even Garrison Keillor, the list goes on.
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What list? None of those people holds public office, so we can't vote them out.

Your posts will be more persuasive if you make them at least minimally coherent.
 
T.A.M. said:
This is just sad. Please do not let your country, and all those who benefit from it, fall backwards in the next few years.

Sesame Street, Electric company, Cosmos, Nova, the list goes on.

Just sad...

TAM
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You seem to be assuming that removing federal funding will mean that PBS and NPR would fold. But there's no reason to think that's the case. Federal funding (both direct and indirect) is only a fraction of the budget for both organizations. Removal of federal funding would certainly require changes, but hardly necessitates the cancellation of any of the programs you mention.
 
easycruise said:
Yes, let's keep the country from falling any more backwards than we've been doing since the Democrats took over. Please help vote them out of office and send them back to the political wilderness from whence they came.

Bill Moyers, Terry Gross, even Garrison Keillor, the list goes on.

They even wish death on people they disagree with! Their grandchildren too!

http://reason.com/blog/2010/10/21/what-wont-get-you-fired-from-n#commentcontainer

Just sad. Very sad. Time to defund NPR and PBS and have them make it on their own.
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1. I would say I am surprised that a REP supporter tries to lay the blame for the words of one person on all of PBS or NPR, but I am not.

2. I am sure you don't blame 8 years of FAILED BUSH REPUBLICAN Policy for the slide that Obama INHERITED...Right? How may REPs at the time said that TARP had to happen? How may on both sides KNEW that a Stimulus had to occur?

As for defunding them, well hopefully their will be enough sensible Americans to keep Demint and his crazies from attempting such tripe.

TAM:)
 
I have a new motto for the REPUBLICAN PARTY...

"NO NEW SPENDING...at least until we retake power!!!"

TAM:D
 
Ziggurat said:
You seem to be assuming that removing federal funding will mean that PBS and NPR would fold. But there's no reason to think that's the case. Federal funding (both direct and indirect) is only a fraction of the budget for both organizations. Removal of federal funding would certainly require changes, but hardly necessitates the cancellation of any of the programs you mention.
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So how much funding does Federal support account for, as a total of each budget? How many pork projects do REPs demand before they will allow a bill to pass?

TAM:)
 
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If you want to defund NPR, please find a better reason than the one that brought this on.
 
Although I loved many of the shows on PBS and liked NPR's in-depth analysis of current events right up until they decided they were not going to cover the impeachment of President Clinton, I do think they're outmoded dodos, relics of the days when there were 4 or 5 channels available. Today, with cable TV and satellite/internet radio and the realization that narrowcasting can be highly profitable, they're redundant.
 
T.A.M. said:
So how much funding does Federal support account for, as a total of each budget?
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It's in the original post. About 15%.

How many pork projects do REPs demand before they will allow a bill to pass?
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Is that moving the goalpost, or changing the subject? Ah well, six of one...
 
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