I am tired of all of these bandwagon PBS fans.

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.

The point is that we shouldn't be borrowing money from China to fund it. If there is so much support for it and the shows are something that people want to watch then PBS should easily be able to generate the funding it needs to keep it on the air without subsidies from the government.

I just skipped to the last couple of posts...but nothing says that PBS needs to shut it's doors if the government stops giving them money...if people REALLY want PBS...they will watch it. if people watch it, it will easily get advertisements and pay for itself.

If people don't want it / would rather watch 20 hours of sponge bob a day, then they won't watch PBS, ratings will die, and the station will go out of business because people really don't want to watch it.

I agree 100% in letting the market decide.

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There's the stuff! Someone did mention it already.

Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive - Neil deGrasse Tyson

I suspect it was a very clever ploy to drag people into this pointless argument so we wouldn't focus on what Romney really intends to cut from the budget. He claims he has a plan yet he won't share any specifics.

He's right. And as another poster on this thread pointed out, PBS stations in some of the smaller cities and/or poorer areas where there aren't enough people or wealth to fully fund the station rely on up to 50% of their budget from that federal support. Should those people in poor areas, who have children who really need the extra educational programs, not be allowed to watch the shows?

Come on, we're talking about 0.012% of the federal budget. Pick something that will make an actual dent in our spending, not PBS. I suspect it was a very clever ploy to drag people into this pointless argument so we wouldn't focus on what Romney really intends to cut from the budget. He claims he has a plan yet he won't share any specifics.

How clueless does someone have to be to conclude that Romney doesn't like PBS?

The point is that we shouldn't be borrowing money from China to fund it. If there is so much support for it and the shows are something that people want to watch then PBS should easily be able to generate the funding it needs to keep it on the air without subsidies from the government.

Forcing PBS to compete with other stations would likely even improve programming and improve the quality of the shows that are aired. Currently there is no need to step up and make improvements because the money is going to keep rolling in from the government no matter how little effort they put in.

It's a lot like General Motors. They got into trouble by making cars for years that nobody wanted to buy. Instead of letting GM fail and forcing them to restructure under Chapter 11 and change the way they do business Obama bails them out with taxpayer money and essentially gives more power to the unions and "saves the auto industry" And what happens? GM continues to build cars that nobody wants to buy like the Chevy Volt and the only way to get people to buy them is to subsidize the sales with even more taxpayer money and money borrowed from China.

PBS has plenty of good shows that should be popular enough to compete with other stations. I say give them a chance to prove they are worth keeping around without the subsidies.

Should those people in poor areas, who have children who really need the extra educational programs, not be allowed to watch the shows?

Mitt Romney is trying to say that he will balance a deficit that is trillions of dollars and get millions of people back to work by cutting $130M from the budget and firing 6500 people. Does that add up to you?

What would be nice is if Obama and the liberals would at least acknowledge that there is a spending problem and that problem needs to be addressed. They just keep spending more and more and won't take on the fact that many of their pet entitlement programs are unsustainable and headed for complete failure. Then they demonize any conservative who attempts to make cuts and say they are the ones trying to "take things away" from the poor people. In reality they (conservatives) are the ones trying to save the programs for people in the future while the liberals seem content to let them all fail and let the future politicians deal with it then. If they were sincerely worried about the people they would be trying just as hard to save the programs and make them self-sustaining.

It would be interesting to see how many of those kids are actually watching these educational programs now. I have no idea, maybe they really are watching them more than others but I tend to suspect that they aren't tuning in all that often.

But that liberal PBS need to be shut down...