But the budget cuts contemplated including PBS and (by extension) Sesame Street. Some wags think that those Sesame Street Muppets are just federal puppets.
Some consider the Nation’s Capital as “Fantasyland on the Potomac”. Other outsiders are “Fed Up” with the Federal City. It's better to consider D.C. as “the District of Calamity” (sic).
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Dark Alley Off of Main and Sesame Street
During the first Presidential Debate in Denver, GOP Presidential Nominee Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) indicated that there would have to be some pairing of the Federal budget to cut out extraneous discretionary federal spending. Mr. Romney offered a test on federal spending --Is this program worth borrowing money from the Chinese in order to fund?
But the budget cuts contemplated including PBS and (by extension) Sesame Street. Some wags think that those Sesame Street Muppets are just federal puppets.
But the budget cuts contemplated including PBS and (by extension) Sesame Street. Some wags think that those Sesame Street Muppets are just federal puppets.
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The Federal budget for PBS is 0.00014% of the total US Budget. It is less than the 2 billion the UK cut from their public funding. It is a pittance and makes no impact on US issues. Blah.
ReplyDelete@The Rebel Set As Senator Dirksen once said "A million here, a million there, pretty soon you are talking about real money." Well the Guy Lombardo museum in SD only cost a few million. The pork barrel bridge to no-where was just $250 million and betting on Solyndra was just a $550 million lost bet.
ReplyDeleteThe test as to whether it is worth borrowing from China taken from our children's children to fund for today is a good test.
Sesame Street makes $114 million from ancillary sales (muppet gear and licensing). If PBS can't afford to put on Sesame Street, I believe that Mark Levin has offered to buy PBS with private investors and make a nice profit from it while broadcasting for all the nation's girls and boys.
If you want to support PBS do so, but don't force us to go into debt to pay for your cultural social welfare.