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I am tired of all of these bandwagon PBS fans.

5,642 884 October 7, 2012 at 10:53 PM in Rant
All I see is a bunch of retards pretending to be PBS viewers because Mitt Romney doesn't like PBS and wants to get rid of the CPB.

Seriously, fark the whole lot of them. I hope they all die choking on ham sandwiches.
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Last Edited by calistyle October 7, 2012 at 11:43 PM
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I think you are misunderstanding me. Frown

I hate the all of the people who are part of the new PBS is cool, and I am also cool because I watch PBS trend. The old viewers, the ones who are loyal viewers are the ones that I have real respect for.

These people, the new fans are no different than the people who didn't care for/hated America before 9/11 and suddenly became neocons right after the towers were brought down.

And just so you know, I watch the newshour ever night, and most of the their primetime programs. I've got much love for my local PBS and NPR stations even though they have tried to censor programming and love to pimp the catholic church on their channels.
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Iaaaiws
10-11-2012 at 03:03 PM.
10-11-2012 at 03:03 PM.
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The constitution argument is silly.
Perfect example of why this country is headed for financial disaster. Facepalm
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10-11-2012 at 03:07 PM.
10-11-2012 at 03:07 PM.
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You are correct. You and I cannot personally decide what is and isn't the government's function. Thankfully it is spelled out very clearly in the Constitution as to what is the responsibility of the Federal Government. And if a power is not expressly given to the Federal Government in the Constitution then it falls to the states. And Big Bird isn't one of the enumerated powers given to the Federal Government.
What is the role of the Federal Government? I think it's very evident where Obama and Romney stand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1...re=related

See 2:57 for where the Constitution fits in.
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Iaaaiws
10-11-2012 at 03:14 PM.
10-11-2012 at 03:14 PM.
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Yeah because everything the federal government does is laid out in the constitution. Roll Eyes (Sarcastic)

The constitution argument is silly. Did the constitution give the federal government the responsibility to create NASA and to explore space? No but the federal government did it anyway.
NASA was and is an unconstitutional expenditure, though there may be a weak argument for it in terms of national defense.
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10-11-2012 at 03:14 PM.
10-11-2012 at 03:14 PM.
Quote from Iaaaiws :
You are correct. You and I cannot personally decide what is and isn't the government's function. Thankfully it is spelled out very clearly in the Constitution as to what is the responsibility of the Federal Government. And if a power is not expressly given to the Federal Government in the Constitution then it falls to the states. And Big Bird isn't one of the enumerated powers given to the Federal Government.
Promoting the general welfare is in the very first line of the Constitution.
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Iaaaiws
10-11-2012 at 03:21 PM.
10-11-2012 at 03:21 PM.
Quote from StarNova :
What is the role of the Federal Government? I think it's very evident where Obama and Romney stand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1...re=related

See 2:57 for where the Constitution fits in.
Gotta love that video. Obama spends a couple of minutes describing how and when the Federal Government started down the road of becoming a bloated mess of overspending like it was a good thing and then Romney comes in looking all Presidential and explaining exactly how the Constitution and the balance of powers was supposed to limit the reach of the government. worship
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10-11-2012 at 03:29 PM.
10-11-2012 at 03:29 PM.
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Promoting the general welfare is in the very first line of the Constitution.
According to the Supreme Court, the General Welfare Clause "has never been regarded as the source of any substantive power conferred on the Government of the United States or on any of its Departments".

It is merely tells the basic concept of creating the Constitution in the first place. The federal government was always intended to have extremely limited powers which were clearly defined and the individual states were left to determine how to best do things in a way that fit best with their unique circumstances.
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redmaxx
10-14-2012 at 01:27 AM.
10-14-2012 at 01:27 AM.
Quote from Iaaaiws :
According to the Supreme Court, the General Welfare Clause "has never been regarded as the source of any substantive power conferred on the Government of the United States or on any of its Departments".

It is merely tells the basic concept of creating the Constitution in the first place. The federal government was always intended to have extremely limited powers which were clearly defined and the individual states were left to determine how to best do things in a way that fit best with their unique circumstances.
Uh, no. You misunderstand the Justices' opinion. Here, Wikipedia does a good job describing it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene...ted_States
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10-14-2012 at 01:36 AM.
10-14-2012 at 01:36 AM.
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When you're $16 trillion dollars in debt and hemorrhaging $1+ trillion dollars a year, everything should be on the table.
On the table, sure, but that doesn't mean one should go after education first. Why don't we cut 6 hours of spending from defense first before attacking PBS.

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I agree it's a good smokescreen, but it's a smokescreen more for Obama and Obama supporters. Romney hasn't made a huge deal about defunding Big Bird. He mentioned it as one thing to defund if it fails the "should we borrow money from China for this" test. How is Obama going to balance the budget, or even "cut the deficit in half his first four years"?
Better question: how is Romney going to pay for his $4.8 trillion in tax cuts? Something tells me that would be a bigger hit to our debt than leaving PBS funded...

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According to the Supreme Court, the General Welfare Clause "has never been regarded as the source of any substantive power conferred on the Government of the United States or on any of its Departments".

It is merely tells the basic concept of creating the Constitution in the first place. The federal government was always intended to have extremely limited powers which were clearly defined and the individual states were left to determine how to best do things in a way that fit best with their unique circumstances.
Uh....

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the Supreme Court interpreted the clause even more expansively, disavowing almost entirely any role for judicial review of Congressional spending policies, thereby conferring upon Congress a plenary power to impose taxes and to spend money for the general welfare subject almost entirely to Congress's own discretion. Even more recently, in South Dakota v. Dole[31] the Court held Congress possessed power to indirectly influence the states into adopting national standards by withholding, to a limited extent, federal funds. To date, the Hamiltonian view of the General Welfare Clause predominates in case law.
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10-14-2012 at 02:17 PM.
10-14-2012 at 02:17 PM.
Whether you favor or oppose the existence of PBS or taxes paying for it, can you explain why PBS has the best news coverage on TV and why the private sector hasn't been able to do that well?
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