Posted on 11/06/2004 4:24:22 PM PST by Tacis
Sharpen the carving fork...it's done. I always found it amusing that they used the name of the now-famous CIA op.
Wanna start an FR pool? I pick Dec. 31.
NPR, PBS, and the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) are indeed taxpayer funded. Granted, they do hold other fundraising activities, but all receive taxpayer dollars. Remember that during the next PBS pledge drive.
NPR (National Public Radio) is a private, self-supporting nonprofit media company with hundreds of independent radio stations as members. NPR receives no direct federal funding for general support. NPR supports its operations through a combination of membership dues and programming fees from stations, contributions from private foundations and corporations, and revenue from the sales of transcripts, books, CDs, and merchandise. A very small percentage - between 1-2 percent of NPR's annual budget - comes from competitive grants sought by NPR from federally funded organizations, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. At present, NPR's annual operating budget is approximately $100 million a year (2002 NPR Annual Report).
http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html
In 2004, public radio stations and producers will receive $86 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is funded by Congress (that amounts to only 30 cents per American to support local public radio stations). The appropriation from Congress accounts for only about 14 percent of the cost of operating local public radio stations, and the remaining 86 percent must be raised from a variety of sources, most importantly contributions from listeners.
http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html
End of the year? When's the end of Soros's fiscal quarters? I'm for that guy reducing himself to a pauper for his Quixotiest quests. Like Armand Hammer, he's a communist using his capitalist gains to perpetuate evil. Unfortunately, unlike Armand, Soros is still walking around.
a physically repugnant man.
And extremely unattractive...
Look, he won.
The GOP now owns the White House, the Senate, the House, most of the governorships, and soon will have the Supreme Court. And in two years, we'll have the 60 votes we need to get business done. People don't want what the Democrats are selling. It's a marketplace. Your can of beans has been judged as inferior. And your response? Call your consumers idiots, and relable the same can of beans for the next time, when it will be the same product it was...and older.
This week, I have listened to Democrats, who wail about "tolerance", call me an idiot. My Christian faith has been belittled, my beliefs pooh-poohed, and my values dismissed. I have never seen such a bunch of sore losers in my life, except last time your candidates were tossed out. And when I flip on the radio, looking for Mr. Folksy Mark Twain, I get the same ridicule. Tonight, I was likened to a witch.
Garrison, you have witnessed the decline, crash and burn of the Democratic Party. Your Party was founded on protecting the little guy; it helped bust the trusts and bring down the robber barons. FDR cared about small town values, and worked to protect the weak. And yet, the New Democratic Party defended a rich, powerful white guy who abused and possibly raped women. You ignored a little thing called perjury; Hell, most of your congressmen wouldn't even walk to the Ford building to view the evidence. FDR wouldn't know you people. And then, when a majority of American voters says your values aren't theirs, you snidely make fun of them, because of course, the majority only rules when it confirms the New Democratic Values.
Brother, I listened for twenty years. I know the people in Lake Woebegon like my own family. And you have gone from being a kind, gentle teller of folk stories into just another bitter Democrat. But that's OK. Because what I always suspected has become true. Democrats will never wake up and sell what people want. Zell Miller is the best hope you have, and you snub his counsel. You, and the Clintons, and Democratic leadership will go right on relabeling that same old can of beans that nobody wants to buy. And speaking as a Republican, that's just fine. You can call the beans Progressive, but they're just reheated Liberal.
A year or so ago, you created a song that proclaimed "We're all Republican now!" Well, not quite. Only about 52% of us. But give us some time. Any keep right on doing what you do. And feel free to go right on making fun of more than half of us. See how that plays out in '08.
Dubya has said he will ask for the line item veto ... hmmmm
And that's 14 percent too much. I do not want ANY taxpayer dollars supporting leftist intolerance.
Why do we fund NPR?
The same reason we fund zoos.
Outstanding post (and email)! You should send a version of that email to every liberal hack on the airwaves!
Bump
(Laugh) Thank you for the welcome! I have info on certain subjects- but isn't it great how each one here has a specialty, and we all benefit?
The reason NPR gets away with saying what they do is that TAX dollars go directly to the radio station. The radio station then pays NPR. Ergo, NPR is not tax supported. Balderdash.
Why do we fund NPR (and PBS for that matter?) Because every time it comes up for a vote, *Republicans* vote to keep the funding, right along with the Democrats. It's a mystery why they do that, but the funding wouldn't continue w/o Republican support.
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