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      <![CDATA["I just don't think shared sacrifice at the expense of one's own political power is a part of our politicans' mindset. <br>
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But then, they worship the God of Reelection, and he is a demanding taskmaster."<br>
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Sums it up pretty well right there.
        
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      <![CDATA[Rest assured my portion of the DoD budget doesn't amount to a pimple on a gnat's ass! And being a contractor I don't get to enjoy the other benefits, or entitlements depending on which side of the aisle you're on.
        
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      <![CDATA[@ Mad<br>
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Well, I think we need to examine the need for your job first.
        
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      <![CDATA[And for what it's worth.... I am part of that military-industrial complex and have been for quite sometime now.
        
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      <![CDATA[@mad<br>
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See your points and cannot disagree with any of them.<br>
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We need to seriously look at DOD and entitlement spending. Problem in in the details.<br>
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To be successful, somebody's ox and probably a lot of people's oxen are going to have be gored.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ok, I missed that part. I was overwhelmed by OTP making some coherent arguments for a change.
        
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      <![CDATA[Holy crap. The liberals want to cut military spending, but still seem to have a hardon for killing a million or so innocent bystanders.<br>
As Bart Simpson once said, "Think harder Homer."
        
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      <![CDATA[@Mad<br>
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Are you on board for destroying Iran's cities? That will kill a few hundred thousand Iranian women and children, but what the heck, they don't look like us.<br>
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As a combat veteran, I can say it is easy to cut the defense budget when it is not you that will pay the price for those cuts.
        
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      <![CDATA[I think OTP nailed this one. Just for a reference point, one B2 bomber costs a little over $2 billion (yes, Billion) while PBS/NPR is receiving roughly $200 million.
        
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      <![CDATA[Has anyone ever heard of the wordphrase, overkill? I just wonder from all of these posters decrying potential cuts in defense.
        
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      <![CDATA[Shane, the one thing the federal government should do above everything else is keep us safe. A quote from Democrat Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on the sequestration defense cuts:<br>
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"It was designed as a meat ax," Panetta said.
        
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      <![CDATA[Bruce, sorry for putting up an incorrect PBS subsidy number, and thanks for correction. The number I put up was so wrong it doesn't even look right to me.  I'll make it a point in the future not to try to post here and buy an IPhone off of Ebay at the same time.<br>
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I think you may be nitpicking on the station/network, but you are correct, it is a network.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Liz Schumacher Craig]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Commercial support is a mixed blessing. With the money comes a sponsor who can threaten to pull support if you say anything bad about the industry s/he is in.
        
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      <![CDATA[Great piece, Bruce. If we can "borrow from China" so the Defense Department can sponsor NASCAR, we can "borrow from China" to keep public television.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[SayItAintS0]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Let PBS sell commercial time like all the other networks and there will still be Big Bird and all the other programming. It is not like PBS will go off the airwaves.
        
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      <![CDATA[GW, you are way off on a number of points. First, NPR/PBS are slated to receive $222 million total in federal funding for each of the next two years, a looong way from "$2 billion."
        
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      <![CDATA[Gwc, if you want to have a serious conversation about government spending and debt, it should begin with military spending. Otherwise, you're just parroting a tired line.
        
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      <![CDATA[I watched an excellent documentary about Syria on PBS last week, but only because I didn't think there would be an opportunity to insert much left wing propaganda in it. However, I skipped the two hour Obama/Romney special because I just didn't trust them to be objective.
        
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      <![CDATA[We've got $99 trillion in unfunded entitlements coming down the pike, meaning each toddler currently watching Big Bird for free is already ~$330,000 in debt. Like it or not the government is going to have to cut up its credit card or print a lot of money.
        
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      <![CDATA[Sesame Street is an integral part of my 2-year-old grandson's life. He watches it on his iPhone every day.
        
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      <![CDATA[Big Bird is responsible for me accepting my imaginary friends, the voices of whom have guided me throughout my life of non-conformity. Fred Rogers mentored my neighborhood values and Bill Moyers wiped away the illusions of corporate consumerism and American exceptionalism.
        
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      <![CDATA[Give HBB about six more years.<br>
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I'd say that conservatives' problem with PBS is two-fold. First of all, it's commercial free, meaning it can't be used to further indoctrinate children into a lifestyle of mindless consumerism.
        
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