Do You Support Tax Payer Dollars Funding NPR, Cowboy Poetry ? (school, politicians)
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The government has no business taking our money and giving it to PBS, NPR, etc. I dont know how any of you can even try to justify it.
Just like how the government takes money from you to support the Smithsonian Institute, the National Gallery of Art, and the Library of Congress which guess what... has other things that books about Congress.
Without such funding this country of ignoramuses would be even more ignorant, if that is at all possible, inundated by creationist; Beckian historians; The Charlie Sheen-Lindsey Loham-Mel Gibbson channel; 2000 channels of blow dried evangelist, infomercials, and sports programing.
No. Shouldn't be government funded. Way too one-sided. I tried listening to my local NPR station a couple weeks ago - hadn't in a loooooong time, but after listening to a program about how to grow marijuana followed by one on anti-cop poetry from the 60's, I just couldn't stomach it anymore and switched stations. Sorry, people who aren't far leaning leftists shouldn't be forced to have our tax dollars pay for this stuff. Even PBS drives me crazy these days with all the inappropriate propaganda inserts into kids' programs about ways to save the planet, etc. Nope. Time to defund.
Just like how the government takes money from you to support the Smithsonian Institute, the National Gallery of Art, and the Library of Congress which guess what... has other things that books about Congress.
Without such funding this country of ignoramuses would be even more ignorant, if that is at all possible, inundated by creationist; Beckian historians; The Charlie Sheen-Lindsey Loham-Mel Gibbson channel; 2000 channels of blow dried evangelist, infomercials, and sports programing.
Anything else I can help you with?
How does NPR and PBS sit on the same level as the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress?
How does NPR and PBS sit on the same level as the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress?
Damn sure do. Who else provided a platform for, Carl Sagan's Cosmos? Who provided a venue for Ken Burn's Civil War, National Parks , Jazz and The War? Who provided the funding and platform for Henry Hampton's Eye's on the Prize? Just a few of the most important documentary works of that later 20th Century?
Who else produces Nova, Frontline, American Experience? The vast majority of money granted by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting goes to independent producers of original content, as such CPB is the largest funder of documentary programing.
So ask yourself, who is developing CONTENT to be housed by the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress that records who we are as a nation in the 20th and 21st century?
Television and radio are such wastelands of creativity anymore; so, the local public broadcasters provide the only oasis for me. It's my personal preference and people shouldn't have to fund my personal preference if they don't want to. It's my opinion that my local broadcasters could survive without federal funding (the radio more so than the television broadcaster) even though I live in a rural area, but I would miss them if they did go.
The again I prefer not to subsidize fences for farmers even though it provides a benefit for the farmer.
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Damn sure do. Who else provided a platform for, Carl Sagan's Cosmos? Who provided a venue for Ken Burn's Civil War, National Parks , Jazz and The War? Who provided the funding and platform for Henry Hampton's Eye's on the Prize? Just a few of the most important documentary works of that later 20th Century?
Who else produces Nova, Frontline, American Experience? The vast majority of money granted by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting goes to independent producers of original content, as such CPB is the largest funder of documentary programing.
So ask yourself, who is developing CONTENT to be housed by the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress that records who we are as a nation in the 20th and 21st century?
The Smithsonian and the Library of Congress lean left?
The government has no business taking our money and giving it to PBS, NPR, etc. I dont know how any of you can even try to justify it.
So, on the one hand you claim to want to hear why it's necessary, but on the other hand you don't want to hear any reason at all.
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Originally Posted by BucsLose
If you like NPR so much, then donate yourself. Or they can have ads as much regular media. Why should they get an advantage with tax dollars over other media?
Because regular media is in full service to infomercial sales. One way or another no subject can be spoken about truthfully without threats to 'sales'.
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Originally Posted by BucsLose
What is really, really sad about all this. We are facing a major debt crisis.
What's really sad is that you've supported the very people putting sugar in the gas tank of the economy all along and blame the automotive industry. You still don't want to believe you're guilty and you absolutely are.
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Originally Posted by BucsLose
Also, look up some of the salaries of these people who work at these "non-profit" groups.
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There is a PAC committee- republicans for abortion. Her entire existence is justifying her existence. That's what lobbyists do. Every not for profit is not alike and if you're running a 'charity' or 'religion' and pay yourself millions, I do not see how 95% of funds being called 'overhead' makes them a credible charity. So, the prevailing wages for what job? Who invented that price tag? It came from board rooms throughout corporate America. They concocted a separate economy for themselves, rewrote accounting standards, rewrote the law, America be damned. There is no allegiance to America in a corporation. There are only 'enlightened self interests' serving themselves but their vote trumps all others.
What is really, really sad about all this. We are facing a major debt crisis. These idiot politicians want us to believe that there is little to cut. Guess what morons? You could start with something small like tax payer money for NPR and other groups. My God! That is an EASY thing to cut. Why is it even something you have to think about or debate?!?!?! If they cant even get themselves to admit that its wrong and cut something as simple as that....then people....WE ARE IN BIG BIG TROUBLE.
A Dem politician today on C-Span said you "can't make cuts with a hammer...you've got to chisel away delicately". Well, I got news for you, if you spend money with the speed and intensity of a nail gun, then you better believe we'll need to make spending cuts with a hammer!
The Smithsonian and the Library of Congress lean left?
Perhaps someday, opponents of the CPB, NPR, and PBS can point to specific instances of bias in their programing out side of the tiny percentage of opinion based broadcasts (which I will stipulate for the sole purpose of not bogging down this conversation in bull**** innuendo is to the left of Mao/Satan and whoever you would prefer).
By the way, an interesting survey conducted by the CPB regarding perception of bias in PBS programing.
Which brings up another interesting issue. When you consider PBS's major underwriters (Fortune 500 corporations and their philanthropic trusts) it begs the question of what kind of bias PBS, and NPR might possess that keeps assumably conservative boards of directors and CEO funneling money to such a biased organization.
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