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So, you choose to remain dumb so you can maintain your opinion of the source. Got it.
It's an amusing site name that clearly panders to dumb people. I don't have an opinion on the tapes. Didn't watch them.
So, you choose to remain dumb so you can maintain your opinion of the source. Got it.
lol secret Muslim public radio
lol "veritas"
The last time the GOP had a majority in the Congress and the presidency, it pushed through the largest en lement program increase since the 60s.
So we have .0000098% of the federal budget under the axe now.
Big Bird, welfare queen.
Or, Democrats, defenders of channel 9.
It's the en lements...
The source has had no bearing on my choice not to watch the tapes. I have heard, via non-pandering news sources, what is on the tapes and the consequences that came out of their release, and I feel sufficiently informed on the matter.
You read and proudly link to a site called BigGovernment.com. I find this amusing.
Okay.
So, do you believe NPR should be de-funded?
No, I don't. The idea of public broadcast media has merit as a freely and easily accessed medium of news, information and continuing education. It is a relative drop in the bucket but is something I feel a developed nation should have.
I think people who are unable to work at NPR/PBS and carry themselves in reasonable and non-partisan manner have failed in their obligation to the public and should be fired.
At 23% of the budget, with a substantial increase since 2000 it is most certainly a significant cause.
I'll add that I really don't care all that much. If pressed for an opinion on the matter, I'd like to see it funded, but there are a lot of things more deserving of my concern.
Bump up the payroll tax, push back the retirement age a few years, and be done with it. Naturally, the tax increase would mean the imposition of socialism and the increase in retirement age would mean the ascent of fascism.
People at the highest level of the organization were willing to entertain the idea of accepting and hiding donations from a terrorist front organization.
These weren't people in the mail room.
But, at least I know where you stand.
Yes, you asked where I stand on NPR's funding. I take it your point here is that these people failed in their responsibility to the public and should be fired, as I suggested in my post.
Glad we could agree. Good talk.
If it were a significant cause, it would have been a significant cause back in the 70's. It wasn't.
The facts are that Defense spending has fallen while en lement spending has grown out of control.
35% of Americans get their wages from the federal government, in the form of welfare and other handouts...and, that's not counting federal employees. There's something wrong with that.
I don't think the behavior stops at the Schillers or with Lively. I think the entire public broadcasting system should have its funding yanked and its tax exempt status lifted.
'em.
lol simon templar
Do you believe this behavior is an inherent inevitability of the concept of a public broadcasting service?
I don't know but, it appears to be in the one we have.
Back in the 70s we faced nuclear annihilation as a real threat to national security. Now we engage in conjecture about vague threats from a primitive band of 3rd world goat herders and spend as much as back then as a % of GDP on the military.
Further, we outspend the rest of the world, combined, on the military.
Also, when I see all these 'conservative' baby boomers voluntarily giving up Medicare and Social Security benefits then I'll believe the bellyaching about big government. Until then, something's gotta give and excessive military spening is a significant part of the problem.
So perhaps rather than defunding it, the solution is to fix it.
Popular conservatism es about the en lements and the checks sent out, and cashes them. Send your checks back, Yonivore, then I'll believe you.
eh, defund it. The country will survive.
I don't receive any en lements from the federal government.
Well, if I thought the government should be in the broadcast business, I'd say, sure; fix it. But, since I don't hold that view, defunding seems the appropriate option, to me.
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