Bush Proposes to Cut PBS Funding by 30% (sob)

http://www.apts.org/news/budget07.cfm ^ | February 6, 2006 | FreeManDC

[Brett66]

Awesome! I just wish he proposed 100% cuts.

[NapkinUser]

"Bush Proposes to Cut PBS Funding by 30%"

Sweet.

State-run television makes me think of Iran.

[Darkwolf377]

Oh no! They won't be able to afford the ten billionth rerun of "Are you being served?"!!!!

[pollyannaish]

< Insert Happy Dance Here >

[Cicero]

If only they go through with this, great. But in the past, they have always backed down.

Also great that they are pulling funding for TV stations to switch to digital programming. Why on earth should the taxpayers fund the media so they can use it to broadcast more sleaze and lies? Why should Bush help the people who are so busy attacking him?

[GretchenM]

You've got my vote on that one, Mr. President.

[NordP]

[Eighth Street]

We need across the board spending cuts, in every single program.

[Revolting cat!]

I axed before and I'm axing again: are they axing the current budget by 30% or are they axing the projected rate of growth of current budget by 30% (as they usually do to fool the fools.)

[Mulch]

How about doing the same with NPR?

[Zerano]

I was just fixin to say 30% ????

Why not 100% ? Could someone please find the part of the Constitution that gives the federal government the authority to spend our tax money for that purpose?

[little jeremiah]

CUT MORE! CUT MORE! CUT MORE! CUT IT ALL!

[zip]

ignoring the will of the American people as they expressed it quite vocally last June

I must have been sleeping in June. I didn't hear any great uprising against cutting the anti American NPR budget. I would love to see a 100 percent slash. Let the Freaking liberals that love it dig into their wallets.

[Rebelbase]

(sob)

What do you mean by this? And why do you just post articles without ever commenting on them?

[sandbar]

Why don't require the near billions of dollars raked in by Barney, Teletubbies, Sesame Street, etc... to be paid back into PBS? If even a percentage was paid back in, no need for tax dollars.

[FairOpinion]

I am disappointed....


.... that he only proposed a 30% cut, but it's a start.

[kingu]

While I'm sure I'm in the minority, I believe in some federal funding of the arts... What I don't agree with is the high wages that folks are drawing from PBS. I don't agree with the benefits packages that would put any union shop to shame. I don't agree with paying for the same benefits for family members, including domestic partnerships (or whatever.)

Anything that is funded by donations should pay just enough of a wage to get the people that are needed, not who is desired. If a station executive is unhappy or unable to survive on a 80k salary, then fine, open the position to someone else. 90% of the stations could be better run by college students than draining off so much funds for retirement funds, benefit plans, huge salaries, etc.

So if PBS is upset about losing 30% of the funding - hey, why not try something that other companies do - trim the fat!

[Richard Kimball]

If local PBS producers can own a house like the people in Family Ties did, they definitely make too much money. I thought the most realistic part of that show was that the father worked for PBS and was a liberal pinhead.

The Republicans are starting to say a lot of the right things now, but most of us don't believe them. Does anybody think this cut will make it through Congress? Their best weapon is that the Rats have passed Prozacville and are moving into Droolerstown.

[Cobra64]

Awesome! I just wish he proposed 100% cuts.

Bingo! What the hell is the Federal Government have to do with Pubic (sic) Broad-casting. Then again, we can dial 1-800-BILL-CLINTON.