Why is congress still funding pbs? (school, leader, voters, Louisiana)

[Elliott_CA]

Originally Posted by saltine

To the tune of $400+million annually.

About $1.20 per person per year. You're going to take Big Bird away from the kids to a save a buck a year? Really?

[burdell]

Originally Posted by saltine

To the tune of $400+million annually.

Gee, if the Pentagon had that $$$ they might be able to close a Syrian runway for an entire day.

[saltine]

Try $1.35

Originally Posted by Elliott_CA

About $1.20 per person per year. You're going to take Big Bird away from the kids to a save a buck a year? Really?

If a big yellow costume is that important to your children than get yourself one that excuse fell flat the first time it was used decades ago.

Originally Posted by burdell

Gee, if the Pentagon had that $$$ they might be able to close a Syrian runway for an entire day.

Waste is waste right? Perhaps Your taxpayer $ would be better spent by Breitbart? then you might say otherwise

[Phil75230]

Originally Posted by Elliott_CA

About $1.20 per person per year. You're going to take Big Bird away from the kids to a save a buck a year? Really?

Maybe he wants to buy an extra single apple for himself. One extra apple over a whole year.

[saltine]

Originally Posted by Phil75230

Maybe he wants to buy an extra single apple for himself. One extra apple over a whole year.

Maybe you want to see everyone in the nation forced to send a right wing broadcast a $1.35?

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by Elliott_CA

About $1.20 per person per year. You're going to take Big Bird away from the kids to a save a buck a year? Really?

Well if you didn't know, Ben Shapiro says Big Bird and the bunch are commie libs

[mountainrose]

Putting that $400 million toward infrastructure in our roads and bridges, or a sophisticated smart grid for alternative energy, fixing Flint's water problems, or THE WALL --- all would be better allocations than funding for a left-wing propaganda media.

How would the left feel if their taxes went to help fund FOX news or Breitbart or Rush Limbaugh.......

[bohemka]

Originally Posted by mountainrose

Putting that $400 million toward infrastructure in our roads and bridges, or a sophisticated smart grid for alternative energy, fixing Flint's water problems, or THE WALL --- all would be better allocations than funding for a left-wing propaganda media.

Taking money from PBS does none of those things. It just kills PBS. US culture is fueled by spite right now, so that's good enough for many.

This Old House or Antiques Roadshow: left-wing propaganda.

[bawac34618]

Originally Posted by rstevens62

Well, they still fund the FCC too, a govt agency that controls and censors content on network tv, so they are basically the morality police of network tv....and yet Ive never heard anyone calling for them to be shut down, thats really strange, especially in the times we live in today!

Yeah take way the FCC and we could be seeing nudity and the 'F' bomb on network TV. People won't allow that.

[Elliott_CA]

We fund PBS and we fund public libraries for the same reason: spending relatively small sums of public money to provide information and educational materials to everyone is a valuable public service and it lifts society as a whole. The only people who disagree with that are the Ayn Rand disciples who think that being 100% selfish is the highest state of living.