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

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

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

GINGRICH TRIED TO ELIMINATE THE FUNDING, BUT COULD ONLY CUT. IT IS LIKE A VAMPIRE, KEEPS SUCKING BLOOD AFTER YOU DRIVE THE STAKE THRU ITS HEART.

[zarf]

This will be killed in Congress. Not a chance.

[TheForceOfOne]

Time to cut the DNC's version of Pravda loose.

[Cobra64]

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

El Wrongo my friend. The operative word is "elimination."

[libs_kma]

So instead of 207 channels we'll only have 206. My heart gently weeps.... /sarc

[reefdiver]

If there so needed-and loved, then selling some commercials to pay for it,Shouldn't be a problem. (good luck-no body listens to that crap) Oh where will Dr. dim bulb Dean get a full hearing?

[PhiKapMom]

100% works for me! PBS is liberal and a waste of our tax dollars.

[FreedomFarmer]

Not everyone on pBS is sad.

[Salvation]

Yes!

[PzLdr]

He's 70% off.

[Lurker]

I'd challenge you to point to me the Article and Section of the US Constitution that authorized the Federal Government to pay for a television network.

L

[right-wingin_It]

Wooooooo Hoooo!! Keep it up W, and maybe we could get ya a 3rd term.

[okie01]

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

And, invariably, the Senatorial and Congressional wives are "blamed". Which raises a pair of questions:

1. Why would Mrs. Senator give a fig for what happens to PBS? What glorious mission is public broadcasting conducting that makes it so beloved by the fair sex?

2. Why does Mr. Senator listen to what Mrs. Senator says on the subject? Is he not working for us...and not for her?

[HitmanLV]

Does this mean another membership drive this year? I love commercial free PBS, even though they seem to beg for money every 20 mins or so. :-)

[billbears]

I'd challenge you to point to me the Article and Section of the US Constitution that authorized the Federal Government to pay for a television network. 99% of what it involves itself in.

When it all boils down to it, Bush is planning on 'cutting' the budget (even though they aren't really cuts) all of 1/2 of 1 percent. That's one half of one percent. That's not a cut, that's pandering to the masses that blindly vote Republican under the mistaken belief Republicans are for limited government.

[Fido969]

“By submitting a budget proposal with cuts of this magnitude, the Administration is completely ignoring the will of the American people as they expressed it quite vocally last June.

WTF is this nitwit talking about?

[LibFreeOrDie]

PBS now has a fund-raising foundation, specifically to receive large donations from individuals and corporations.

Here's info about the Cheri Carter, director of the PBS Foundation (I'm SURE she's non-partisan /sarcasm):

"Education: Earned her bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communication at the University of Georgia in 1977." (Georgia... Carter... any relation to Jimmuh?)

"Previous employment: Started her career as a Congressional aide, then took fund-raising and public-relations jobs in Florida, was a special-events coordinator and then deputy finance director for the Democratic National Committee, and served as director of external affairs for the late U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown. She worked in the Office of Public Liaison during part of the Clinton administration, and as the chief operating officer of the 2000 Democratic National Convention. In 2001, Ms. Carter became a fund raiser for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, in Washington."

[eleni121]

Time for rejoicing...now the 100,000 + salaries of local PBS affiliate bosses and beggars will have to be lowered.

Thanks again and again President Bush! And make it so.

[Lurker]

You'll get no argument from me, I was merely responding to the poster who said it didn't have a problem funding 'the arts' with taxpayer dollars.

L

[Da Mav]

Yes! It ought to be eliminated, but I'll take it.

However given the number of times Republicans promised to do this in the past, then ended up increasing the budget instead, I think I'll hold off on the celebration until it actually happens.