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   Clark Kent said, about 2 years ago

   I’ll say it again, nationwide luau in 2012 featuring roast elephant.
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   cdward said, about 2 years ago

   What a lie to say it has anything to do with the budget. Reducing the military by one plane would do more for the budget.

   They just don’t want anything publicly funded. However, public radio (and it’s only sort of publicly financed, isn’t it? The rest is donations), is important. There needs to be a news service that is not dependent upon advertisers. If I had my way, I’d make it more public - guaranteed paid for, no matter who’s in office, with only the requirement that it do the news.

   I follow several news sources, and there is none that is better researched and more fully and objectively reported that NPR.
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   meetinthemiddle said, about 2 years ago

   Or as I heard someone propose the other day - since the for-profit networks have largely ignored the “public good broadcasting” clause in getting the airwaves cheap or free for decades, just drop it from their contract and add a fee that would go to CPB
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   Gary Kleppe said, about 2 years ago

   All media is funded by the public. The costs are tacked onto the prices of everything we buy that gets advertised.

   The difference is, with public media the public gets some measure of control over what gets broadcast. Certainly the Republicans don’t want that.
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   Jase99 said, about 2 years ago

   I prefer PBS go to a BBC business model. People would undoubtedly resent a TV license fee paid directly to the network (in lieu of paying indirectly via your tax dollars), but look at the success of the BBC.
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   motivemagus said, about 2 years ago

   One ten-thousandth of one percent of the budget. And the GOP had an emergency meeting to cut it why?
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   Simon_Jester said, about 2 years ago

   I once had a rightie on this board ask me, “Why should I pay for radio I never listen to?.”

   So I answered,

   “In that case I want Congress to eliminate all the federal highway funding in your state. Why should I pay for roads I don’t drive on?”
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   SaltWaterCroc said, about 2 years ago

   Of course, since Murdoch and Fox don’t pay taxes, they are government funded also. Don’t hear calls to make a $9 billion corporation pay taxes. How anyone can be serious about balancing the budget after granting billions in tax cuts is beyond me.
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   vtcwvet said, about 2 years ago

   I agree with Clark Kent & Simon _Jester 100%.
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    mendojoe said, about 2 years ago

    TAX WEALTH!!!
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    ruff said, about 2 years ago

    ^ I fully agree with the second part of your comment.
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    Justice22 said, about 2 years ago

    Just remember that this is an absolutely “Do nothing Congress”. What gets through one house of Congress will be blocked by the other house. We will not have an approved budget no matter how much the Democrats cave to the Republicans. It will be one continuing resolution after the other.
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    Radish said, about 2 years ago

    If NPR gets defunded then they can afford to be liberal.
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    spyderred said, about 2 years ago

    Vortex has a point, but Congress’ problem with doing nothing is that the businesses and wealthy folks who own them might lose a lawsuit to a consumer, so obviously that law would need to be changed to keep that from happening again.
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    junco49 said, about 2 years ago

    All Praise to the seven Republican Congressmen who voted NO.

    see: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll192.xml
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