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President Obama's Budget Proposal Doesn't Cut Funds to NPR ($15 million increase!)
The Wrap ^ | 2/14/11 | Dylan Stableford

Posted on 02/14/2011 3:55:52 PM PST by jimbo123

Big Bird can breathe a little easier now.

Despite calls from conservatives and a bipartisan committee to cut federal funding of Corporation for Public Broadcasting, President Obama's 2012 budget -- released Monday -- preserves the money that supports it.

Obama’s proposal includes $445 million in general programming grants for CPB in 2012, 2013 and 2014 -- up from $430 million in 2011.

The president’s plan comes as members of the House Appropriations Committee had in recent days renewed the push to defund to CPB -- and progressive groups, like MoveOn.org, and the Writers Guild of America mobilized to fight for PBS and NPR

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To: matt04

bttt


21 posted on 02/14/2011 5:49:57 PM PST by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - World Disaster Map)
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To: bitt; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

thanks bitt.


22 posted on 02/14/2011 5:59:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: jimbo123

Obama has been photographed numerous times scratching his nose with his middle finger, as a means of flipping off whomever. He is flipping all of us off now.


23 posted on 02/14/2011 6:08:43 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Win The Future = Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Cyber Liberty
"And YOU, Cyber Liberty, I'm gonna wiggle my EARS at YOU!"


24 posted on 02/14/2011 7:24:29 PM PST by bitt ( ..Congress - either investigate Obama ...or yourselves, for complicity)
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To: jimbo123

DITTO!!!!!!!


25 posted on 02/14/2011 7:51:29 PM PST by tutstar
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To: bitt

Thanks for the ping!


26 posted on 02/14/2011 8:18:29 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: jimbo123

“From Hell”


27 posted on 02/15/2011 12:04:13 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: jimbo123

NPR and PBS support Obama’s treachery and violence
against America and will not report to Americans.

Also, PBS/NPR failed to report every major story
involving Obama’s treason last month.
Every one.


28 posted on 02/15/2011 4:48:50 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: RhoTheta
I don't think that NPR needs public money when George Soros just gave them $1M IIRC

McDonalds heiress Mrs. Kroc left them over $100 million in her will about a decade ago. I guess they squandered that legacy.
29 posted on 02/15/2011 4:51:40 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Nonstatist

Thank you so much! I didn’t realize this has to go through the same process as other legistlation. That really clears things up for me.


30 posted on 02/15/2011 5:54:27 AM PST by marstegreg
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To: jimbo123

going only by watching this chronic liar for the past 2 years, one wonders if he didn’t come from “wherever the hell”


31 posted on 02/15/2011 10:44:34 AM PST by bareford101 (. All Muslims lie to infidels to confuse them)
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To: jimbo123

Something tells me this is going to be another bargaining chip. Obama has to show a lot of chutzpah for his base, and nothing will titillate them more than standing up for public broadcasting. By butting heads with the GOP on millions more dollars for this garbage, he knows that he can get billions of dollars of concessions out of them. The only antidote for this is for everyone in the GOP to grow a pair, ignore push polls and the bollocks, and refuse to spend any more money on these leeches.


32 posted on 02/15/2011 3:04:51 PM PST by yup2394871293
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To: bitt

The clown is a bullshit artist of the highest kind. We shall see how much and what gets cut once the Congress has done it’s work.


33 posted on 02/15/2011 6:44:46 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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To: jimbo123

Freeze Spending then
...THE 15 PERCENT NATIONAL DEBT SOLUTION. CUT EVERYTHING BY 15 PERCENT. ACROSS THE STINKIN BOARD. = 555 BILLION IN CUTS THE FIRST YEAR. NUFF SAID !

3.7 trillion to
3.2

then do it again

3.2 to
2.7


34 posted on 02/15/2011 11:33:15 PM PST by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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