Will Romney End PBS, Public Radio Funding? (Cato? Seriously??)

Cato ^ | 1/10/12 | Nat Hentoff

[Drango]

In a sure sign that Armageddon is soon, the CATO Institute seems to be endorsing tax funds for PBS/NPR. What next? Dogs sleeping with cats?

[Timaeus]

This is CATO? What the hell?

[Timaeus]

I should add that Romney is as likely to defund PBS as he is to repeal ObamaCare, which is zero as ObamaCare is functionally identical to RomneyCare with all its new taxes, new rules, its assumptions about the state supervision of private economic activity to pursue progressive goals, and its mandates.

Bait and switch is Romney's method. Once in office all of these "pledges" will be abandoned: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-romney-ran-bain-capital-his-word-was-not-his-bond/2012/01/12/gIQACvQxwP_story.html

[UnwashedPeasant]

When did CATO turn Socialist?!

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Question: "Will Romney End PBS, Public Radio Funding?"

Answer. No.

[SatinDoll]

Dogs and cats sleeping together happens in my house all the time. That should be the least of our worries. It's really simple: follow the money. Please keep in mind that Romney is a malleable man with no real core values except greed. He wants what his daddy never could buy - the White House. The Globalists in the Republican Party want to get back into the center of government, and do not want all those troublesome conservatives who cling to Bible and guns insisting on their God-given rights, getting in the way. The Globalists believe they can control Romney. Obama is a Marxist-Leninist Muslim puppet the Democrats thought they could control, but he is now driving the Democratic Party over a cliff to the advantage of the Global Social Justice group at the United Nations and international labor unions. The Democrats and Republicans are hopeful Obama won't try to stage a coup d'etat and cause a race war! What a mess!

[SatinDoll]

Dogs and cats sleeping together happens in my house all the time. That should be the least of our worries.

It’s really simple: follow the money.

Please keep in mind that Romney is a malleable man with no real core values except greed. He wants what his daddy never could buy - the White House.

The Globalists in the Republican Party want to get back into the center of government, and do not want all those troublesome conservatives who cling to Bible and guns insisting on their God-given rights, getting in the way. The Globalists believe they can control Romney. Yeah, right!

Obama is a Marxist-Leninist Muslim puppet the Democrats thought they could control, but he is now driving the Democratic Party over a cliff to the advantage of the Global Social Justice group at the United Nations and international labor unions.

The Democrats and Republicans are hopeful Obama won’t try to stage a coup d’etat and cause a race war!

What a mess.

[achilles2000]

Hentoff is a old time socialist of some ill-defined variety. Cato’s association with him is, no doubt, meant to prove that Cato isn’t like those icky serious libertarian-conservatives. No, Cato is to the liberty agenda what “compassionate conservativism” is to conservatism.

Cato should have stayed outside the Beltway; perhaps they would then have felt less of a need for the approval of those trafficking in inside-the-Beltway group think.

Oh, and a reduction in the number of nurses means that there are fewer psychotropic drugs being pushed in the schools and fewer abortion, birth control, and STD referrals being made without parents being informed. Hentoff is too old and uninformed to know that that is 90% of what the “nurses” do today.

[skinkinthegrass]

BINGO!......A winner.

[EGPWS]

For decades as a reporter, I have continually found vital information on public radio and television that at first was available nowhere else. A current example that may be of importance to many of you, particularly parents of schoolchildren:

If it is so vital then it is a profit haven for business to take over of the demand is so intense.

Government doesn't belong in broadcasting via taxpayers in any way shape or form.

[Vince Ferrer]

As I suspected, Republicans and mainstream "conservatives" think they can just slide through life carving out a "me too, but less" oppositioin to the democrats.

Thanks NPR, the government funded network, for pointing out that government funded schools don't have enough government funded nurses. I'm sure this sent a panic into viewers like it was supposed to that we don't have enough government funding. But the debt is $15 trillion now even without those nurses. Start by cutting NPR to fund the nurses. If that doesn't work, cut the schools entirely and have them privately run, just like they were for hundreds of years before liberals showed up.

The game is over faux conservatives, and surprise, the followers you collected actually mean it. Let's not get wobbly.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Please tell me this is CATO’s satire page.

[Semper911]

I listen to several NPR/PRI/PBS radio shows (podcasts mostly.) There really are a lot of very interesting shows, (RadioLab, This American Life, etc.) but it doesn't take long to have the liberal bias come through loud and clear. The shows still have interesting topics quite often, and I just skip over the liberal bullshit.

While listening to the most recent beg-a-thon where they ask for donations, I realized what is wrong with that model: They leave the businesses out of the loop. They produce shows that lots of people are listening to, and those people would not mind hearing some messages from advertisers, The advertisers would love to sponsor shows, but the PBS model is to go directly to the public and ask for donations.

I would rather see the businesses benefit from sponsoring the shows, rather than having PBS skip over them.

Of course it should be said that "public" broadcasting can and does have commercials, especially on their TV channels. Why they don't just go to a regular market model, I have no idea.

Why the government funds and beg-a-thons?

[cripplecreek]

Actually the real question should be would Romney sign a bill into law defunding public radio.

I don’t know about anyone else but I want a less powerful president.

[Beowulf9]

Well, I think it would be wonderful. PBS is too leftist and should raise their own funds.

[BfloGuy]

the CATO Institute seems to be endorsing tax funds for PBS/NPR

Well, I won't tar the entire Institute with Hentoff's opinion just yet, but it is still the weirdest thing I've ever seen posted there. Very, very weird.

[Artemis Webb]

NO President will end PBS funding as that would require the veto of an omnibus spending bill or a line item veto which doesn’t exist.

[jimfree]

An NPR story ("No, the School Nurse Is Not in," Jan. 3) reveals that, "More than half of American public schools don't have a full-time nurse, and the situation is getting worse as school systems further cut budgets

Who did not know this 30 years ago? Nat, please! Go back to writing about the First Amendment and jazz music.

[SevenofNine]

Hey I got hook on Downton Abby how about that selling merchanide from that show that be awsome

[Drango]

There is zero chance of defunding PBS/NPR if the right flank of the GOP as represented by the CATO think tank is deflecting. Frankly I’m disappointed in them.