For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 10, 2012

Note, people, there is also CANADIAN “Sesame Street” which has its own set of characters. So Mitt cannot cut funding.

@BenderSastre: Since you posted your question to me very late, 2 days ago and yesterday I saw you had posted hours before I posted, so I’m reposting now:I’m American-born (I guess by your name you’re from South Asia). My grandparents came from Romania, Poland and Latvia. I hated my mom’s borscht (smothered pink with sourcream) but loved the clear Polish borscht when I stayed with a family in Poland.

My avatar is a map of China; the red area is Xinjiang Province – the Uyghur Autonymous Republic, just north of Tibet. Without being political, I love Uyghur music (played with a dutar) and since I speak some Turkish I can communicate somewhat with Uyghurs as they are a Turkic people.

I love how people on the Left expect me to pay for things they hold dear. Especially things that are none of the governments business!

Sadly, the Canadian Sesame Street (later Sesame Park) finished its run in 2002.

Only Republicans would bother trying to politicize a 20 year old comic strip. Almost as pathetic as pretending the world is only 6,000 years old.

Sesame Street received a $1 million stimulus bill grant and created “1.47″ jobs, they were to create a healthy eating program, but it seems the money has run out so the program is only 50% completed, now there is a successfully run government funded program wouldn’t you agree? Sheesh!!!!

One of the targets of hate groups that is rarely mentioned are clergy like Fred Rogers. They rather keep hating.

You want to talk about Mr. Rogers and PBS?Take a look at this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3lNDzvSZ18=Forthy-three years past, but still relevant.

There was a place for PBS back many years ago when I was a kid & a teenager because there was only about 2-5 channels & none of them spent time on kids’ shows except Saturday morning or did the adult documentaries & talk shows like PBS did. But things have changed. There are dozens of stations doing the same type of shows as PBS does now & they’re doing it profitably. There is no reason for the taxpayers being forced to pay the govt. to keep financing PBS.

It’s a cute strip. :)

I wish people would debate politics in a political forum instead of in the comments on a comic strip but I guess that it just shows they know the other side (whatever that might be) aren’t listening anyway i.e. they just like to show how ‘smart’ they are.

Fred Rogers was one of the people who stood the test of time, and everyone I’ve ever met had great respect for him, regardless of their political beliefs. I recall back in the 1980’s Johnny Carson did a satire of him called “Mr. Rambo’s Neighborhood”. Carson then asked Rogers if he found the skit offensive. Mr. Rogers said that he did, and Carson made a public apology. THAT is respect!

I read the comics on this site to get away from politics.

Yes, we can all agree that Sesame St. is profitable.

But PBS isn’t just Sesame St.

You’re all imposing a political statement on this strip that wasn’t intended, regardless of when it was drawn. The point is measuring time by the TV schedule. If the person glued to the set were a senior rather than a child, the punchline might have been, “It’s half-past Jeopardy. I’ll be there at a quarter to Wheel Of Fortune.”

By the way – though he passed on several years ago, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood still airs on some PBS stations.

T.E. Lawrence…that is interesting. Many remember Eddie Murphy of the 1980s and “Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood”. Eddie Murphy also ran it by Fred Rogers, who enjoyed the spoof. Maybe Fred Rogers considered Johnny Carson’s skit to be too much.

If PBS takes such a miniscule amount of taxpayer money, then what is all the fuss about the end of the subsidy?

USN1977: Everett Dirkson: “A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” Mitt Romney: “A few million to PBS is bankrupting the country.”

@USN1977As I recall, Fred Rogers’ complaint was that Carson’s skit condoned exposing children to violence, which Rogers was opposed to. Speaking as a teacher, I think Rogers was right.