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   wolfhoundblues1 said, 8 months ago

   That’s right people. All the royalties make the people who own Jim Henson Productions the 1%.
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   etocme said, 8 months ago

   Once again, if you have deception and corruption as your platform, you had better bring in some idiocy like Big Bird into your campaign as a distraction. As if Biden weren’t idiocy enough!
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   ossiningaling said, 8 months ago

   Guess this means that Bird doesn’t believe Romney will actually cut PBS funding. Just like I don’t believe Romney would do half the stuff he says. Mainly because he would do the other half of what he said, which is to say, the opposite.
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   Dredpiraterobt$ said, 8 months ago

   @etocme

   Romney brought Big Bird into the campaign to distract from… what was it you said?
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   I’d like both sides to see who is in this “1%” and see that it IS NOT the job creators anyway.
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   Derek Jeter is in the 1%, he didn’t even give the kid who gave him his 3,000th hit homerun ball ANYTHING! Forget a job!
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   How many NFL players are in the 1%? How many of them create any jobs? John Elway owns a string of car dealerships… But they were there before, they weren’t “created” by Elway.
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   Matt Lauer employs how many people?
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   I would include the Rappers, but most of those guys are building empires of “lifestyle” accoutrements. So they are actually creating jobs, and products. (of course they are only taking sales from other manufacturers so the net gain is zero.)
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   Small business men create and maintain jobs. But the vast majority of them are NOT in the top 1%. It’s arithmetic! 130million taxpayers. top 1%=1.3 million taxpayers. 27million small businesses (21million of which are one man shops). 6 million small businesses that hire people, 1.3 million total in top 1%. That means that 4.7million small business owners are NOT in the top 1%.
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   And another hiring SBO is tossed for each NFL/NBA/NHL/ALB/NLB player with a multimillion dollar contract. Toss one for each TV goon with a starring role, every “Movie Star” every mouth breather in the executive suites on Wall Street…
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   How many slots are left open for the “Job Creators?”
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   Respectful Troll said, 8 months ago

   @Dredpiraterobt$

   Well said. My home town, pop. 405 had a Main Street at the crossroads with nearly forty small businesses providing every service and product needed. The interstate killed off half of those as cars that used to go through town never only saw it as a name on an exit sign. Big box stores and cheaper imported goods finished off most of the rest. We need better legal definition of what is a small businessperson, and what is a job creator.
   C.
   btw, thanks for the link instructions. copied and pasted to a word doc and hope to play with it soon.
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   dtroutma said, 8 months ago

   While I did find the Obama ad both accurate and funny, I must agree that copyright infringement is a bad idea, especially as Children’s Television Workshop has always, properly, stayed out of the “political fray”.

   
   Now that they’ve also promoted social understanding and responsibility, is a “liberal” concept, but it’s as moral philosophy, not “political view”.
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   Dredpiraterobt$ said, 8 months ago

   @Respectful Troll

   Now you’re stepping on Mitt for his Staples claims.
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   It’s the way of the world that business get consolidated but… For every employee at Staples, there are five people who used to work in the surrounding communities at local office supply stores.
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   That’s why Staples works, because it can deliver more product with fewer people.
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   It’s not that it is right or wrong, but it is the truth. Staples was not a project that “created jobs” it was a project that destroyed jobs.
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   1opinion said, 8 months ago

   @HOWGOZIT

   The tax rates are the lowest they have been in decades. Come up with a useful comment, that one is not valid.
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   babka said, 8 months ago

   if Sesame Street Workshop/Jim Henson reimbursed PBS for all the free advertising they got for their merchandise & concert tours, PBS wouldn’t need any government subsidies.
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    Tigger said, 8 months ago

    The Children’s Television Workshop, the Company who gave life to Big Bird and his Muppet Family said they do not need funds from PBS, they’re fine with the marketing of Muppet Merchandise.

    PBS has also said they will be fine without Government Funds as their loyal Viewers are very generous with their donations during the local PBS Fund Rasing time
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    Tigger said, 8 months ago

    @babka

    PBS has already said they do not need Federal Funding. PBS said they do fine with their Fund Raisers.
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    Tigger said, 8 months ago

    @Dredpiraterobt$

    You have Stapels confused with Wal*Mart
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    Tigger said, 8 months ago

    @1opinion

    Thanks to the Bush Tax Cuts
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    Tigger said, 8 months ago

    @Dredpiraterobt$

    Mitt said he would not borrow money from China and give it to PBS.

    The Chliden’s Teleivision Network said they do not need PBS or Federal Funding, but if they want to give them money, they will not turn it down.

    I as much as if I did not need $20.00, but you gave me $20.00, I would not turn down this money.
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    Tigger said, 8 months ago

    @ossiningaling

    NBC reported Obama also plans to cut PBS Fundng.
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