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Old 04-26-2007, 07:38 AM   #56 (permalink)
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Here is the conservative problem with NPR and PBS funding. The fiscal year 2007 funding for both was to be 460 million dollars, however, the President wants that cut by 114 million, for a total of 346 million funded by you and me the tax payer. The problem is that you and me the tax payer, year in and year out spend some 800 million dollars on Sesame Street merchandising alone.

So if Sesame Street alone earns $800 million, and it cost the federal government $460 million, how come none of this money is spent on funding the programming. If this was a corporation doing this, all you liberals would be crying about the corporate welfare out there. Come now, time to be fair if you can be, however, do to your crying here, we see that you have no clue on who to do just that.

That is just one example of the mismanagement of PBS.

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Conservatism, I repeat is not an ideology. It does not breed fanatics....But if you want men who seek, reasonably and prudently, to reconcile the best in wisdom of our ancestors with the change which is essential to a vigorous civil social existence, then you will do well to turn to conservative principles
-Russell Kirk-