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I am tired of all of these bandwagon PBS fans.
October 7, 2012 at
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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.
Seriously, fark the whole lot of them. I hope they all die choking on ham sandwiches.
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I think you are misunderstanding me. 
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 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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You're right. A cut off for the number of family members would be a start. The Annie E. Casey Foundation. http://www.aecf.org/MajorInitiati..
So yeah, I usually get plenty of phone calls when I'm on "vacation".
We're broke. We have $16 trillion dollars of debt. The deficit is over $1 TRILLION dollars every year. As nice as it would be to have more episodes of Wishbone, it's not worth forcing taxpayers to borrow money from China to do it.
Someone like that should be taken serious
To expect anything to be 100% fraud/abuse free is truly wishful dreaming
You can't even find one private company that can run a business 100% fraud free.. How many items do stores lose to shoplifters, scammers, and fraudsters daily. Have you read some of the comments and post from people on Sd', FW, CAG, on some deals/coupons page.. It looks like everybody is looking for a way to scam and game the system.
Imagine if every business would close down just because they find that they are being abused ? that is the same demand you would want from gov't services just because that they may be abused.
But yet companies take it, because they see that they can still do more good ( make money ) even if there maybe inherent fraud in their system, which is NO DIFFERENT then how the gov't see itself..
True they may be scammed by some people, but in the overall picture their services help more people then they are being scammed by, no different then all business.. Businesses just accept it as part of doing business.. The gov't would see it more as part of doing good.
If you see someone scamming the system, why don't you report it? call up your local gov't ? why don't you call up some media/new program if all else fails.. I'm sure some right wing program like Fox or Rush Limburgh would love to know that there are people ripping off the gov't.
Oh wait Fox and Limburgh aren't in the business of news in general, they don't really care about making the system better, if they can't attack liberals or get their base blood boiling they don' t care... These people do more harm to society then help... Instead of making the service better, they just want to destroy and close everything, hurting all the innocents so to punish the few bad apples. And using the few bad apples as the rallying call to shut down every gov't services..
Imagine if the private sector worked that way, you got scammed by a few bad customers, and all the stockholder are rallying to shut the company down because of it...
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Let's say a household spends on typical things for years and years. Rent/mortgage. Utilities. Groceries. Car payment. Insurance. New clothing every couple of years. Cable TV. Internet. A week's vacation every year. And a ppv movie every month. And the budget is perfectly balanced. But one year, mommy becomes a crack addict. She spends all the money on crack. Should Daddy wake up one morning and decide to cut out the ppv movie? Would it even make a difference? I'm not even saying he shouldn't. But should he even mention or target it? You can't farking pay your RENT. You're short thousands of dollars. What the hell is the point of bringing up the $4 movie? This isn't about whether it should or shouldn't be cut, the point is that it's irrelevant. It's a smoke screen. It has nothing to do with the problem. Even bringing it up is a distraction from the central point. If you asked that father what his plan was to bring spending under control, and he brought up the less than $50 a year he spent on PPV, the typical person would think him a fool. YOUR WIFE IS A CRACK ADDICT! But Mitt Romney does this on a much larger scale and half the country applauds. And in the process, he declares "And I'll make sure my wife buys MORE crack, not less!" Are they really that stupid?
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And a ppv movie every month. And the budget is perfectly balanced. But one year, mommy becomes a crack addict. She spends all the money on crack. Should Daddy wake up one morning and decide to cut out the ppv movie? Would it even make a difference? I'm not even saying he shouldn't. But should he even mention or target it? You can't farking pay your RENT. You're short thousands of dollars. What the hell is the point of bringing up the $4 movie? This isn't about whether it should or shouldn't be cut, the point is that it's irrelevant. It's a smoke screen. It has nothing to do with the problem.
When you're $16 trillion dollars in debt and hemorrhaging $1+ trillion dollars a year, everything should be on the table. Things like PBS ARE part of the problem and give people the mindset of oh, it's not that much, so all of the countless other things that don't cost that much by themselves must be ok too. Is PBS a big part of the problem? No. But it's still part of the problem.
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"? (still has one month left to pull something out.) He's not is how. How about the rest of his record and lack of future plans that he doesn't want to talk about? Big Bird gives him and his supporters cover to argue about Big Bird instead of things that aren't "irrelevant."
http://www.usatoday.co
Romney himself address the issue in Iowa, said: "You have to scratch your head when the president spends the last week talking about saving Big Bird."
The Republican National Committee responded by releasing a graphic featuring another Sesame Street character, the vampire The Count.
It's designed to show "President Obama's complete lack of positive message or vision coming out of last Wednesday's debate," the RNC said. "After failing to lay out a plan for his second term -- let alone defend his first term -- in last week's debate, all the president has been talking about recently to distract from his poor performance is Big Bird and Elmo."
Wait, you were talking about Romney right? The Candidate or the Business Man?
Let's say a household spends on typical things for years and years. Rent/mortgage. Utilities. Groceries. Car payment. Insurance. New clothing every couple of years. Cable TV. Internet. A week's vacation every year. And a ppv movie every month. And the budget is perfectly balanced. But one year, mommy becomes a crack addict. She spends all the money on crack. Should Daddy wake up one morning and decide to cut out the ppv movie? Would it even make a difference? I'm not even saying he shouldn't. But should he even mention or target it? You can't farking pay your RENT. You're short thousands of dollars. What the hell is the point of bringing up the $4 movie? This isn't about whether it should or shouldn't be cut, the point is that it's irrelevant. It's a smoke screen. It has nothing to do with the problem. Even bringing it up is a distraction from the central point. If you asked that father what his plan was to bring spending under control, and he brought up the less than $50 a year he spent on PPV, the typical person would think him a fool. YOUR WIFE IS A CRACK ADDICT! But Mitt Romney does this on a much larger scale and half the country applauds. And in the process, he declares "And I'll make sure my wife buys MORE crack, not less!" Are they really that stupid?
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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.