Family Values and PBS:
I was watching television last night and watched a bit of FOX. Here's what was on... Sponge Bob Square Pants. This is the kind of thing a child sees on this show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8n-j...eature=related
I then turned to PBS. And I discovered a show called Super Why. Here's a clip of what kinds of things a kid will see on this show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f6BgCtvrOo
Now... only a braindead MORON would favor the junk on FOX over the stuff seen on PBS. Frankly, FOX is a PERVERSION of what our kids should be watching. The rhetoric against PBS is just an attempt to energize an ignorant base against public broad casting... because the corporate media machine cannot control it. In the end they want to dumb down our children as they do with FOX. Mitt Romney is counting on us being so stupid we'd support him even if he pulled the plug on Sesame Street.
What floored me is that Romney actually targeted PBS. He said he'd cut their funding. Ummm... their funding only equals something like 0.017% of a 4 TRILLION dollar budget. Like that will even make a dent. I vote he reconsideres the cost of the war in Iraq. Most people don't realize how expensive the war is. Look at it broken down like this... one day in Iraq equals...
One Day of the Iraq War = 84 New Elementary Schools
One Day of the Iraq War = 12,478 Elementary School Teachers
One Day of the Iraq War = 95,364 Head Start Places for Children
One Day of the Iraq War = 1,153,846 Children with Free School Lunches
One Day of the Iraq War = 34,904 Four-Year Scholarships for University Students
One Day of the Iraq War = 163,525 People with Health Care
One Day of the Iraq War = 423,529 Children with Health Care
One Day of the Iraq War = 6,482 Families with Homes
One Day of the Iraq War = 1,274,336 Homes with Renewable Energy
Mitt's angle... cut funding to PBS!!!
This guy's disconnected from reality.
The above is only ONE day of the funding going towards the Iraq war... imagine what it's cost us over the YEARS. And we wonder why we're on the brink of economic collapse??? Mitt's answer... cut funding to Big Bird. Give me a break man. lol
But Mitt doesn't care about our kids. In fact... thousands of children are writing him in tears. My son's school has had to address the issue. (My son is in 1st grade). The guy's an idiot. With everything that really needs attention right now... Mitt brought up putting the dastardly Big Bird out of business. I don't get these cats.
Do you know what else Mitt will cut? Funding to SCHIP, HCAP, Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs that help kids and the elderly get medical care that they need. But God knows he'll not cut funding to the war in Iraq. Haliburton has a no bid contract there. A significant portion of the money we're spending on the war... is going straight to Haliburton for nation building. And they're doing it on the cheap to make profits. War profiteering.
I'm sure that PBS made some profits. I bought my son some Sesame Street, Elmo, and Cookie Monster books and toys in the past. But those things are part of the entire educational process on the home front. PBS makes profits for selling educational merchandise and they're demonized.... the cats on Wall Street engage in collusion to bilk multiplied BILLIONS in profits leaving retirement investment accounts dry (people's life savings), bankers sell loans they know will default when the variable rate goes up. But before they do, these guys sell these loans on the foreign market, make a profit, and sit back watch it all fall apart. Millions of Americans loose their homes and find themselves saddled with record levels of debt. These fat cats? Oh, they light up a $1,000 cigar and laugh all the way to the bank. And the profits PBS made off of stuffed animals and childrens books is just unseemly???? PBS must be stopped???? I think they just don't want PBS Frontline to produce a documentary on what they've done.
PBS is less than 1% of our entire budget.
Sorry... there's a disconnect from reality here.
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