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This time, we're getting out of the gutter and strolling down Sesame Street. It seems that Congress has taken the first official step towards killing the Leftist Propaganda machines that are Sesame Street, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Morning Edition and All Things Considered. The House sub-committee responsible for budgeting the Federal dollars that support PBS and NPR programming has recommended cutting funding to those institutions by 25% next year and eliminating all federal funding for them the following year.
Obviously, they are claiming non-partisan reasons. They say that those programs are "somewhere between need-to-have and nice-to-have.'' It seems this is the general feeling toward an independent media that all Republicans share. Yes, that sound you heard is our Democracy accompanying the Koran in a flush down the toilet.
PLEASE try to stop this. It isn't too late (in fact, an article I read said that the Senate would have to approve the budget, it would be very easy for a Senator to re-institute funding before a vote happens, and the Senate is historically more supportive of Public Broadcasting). I'm going to continue on with my rant in a second, but before I do, click here to send an e-mail, via Move-On.org, to congressfolk letting them know that you need your Big Bird fix and you want to make certain your kids will have the same opportunity.
Returning to the rant, it seems that the theory is that when the federal funding goes away there will be corporate funding that will take it's place. It's sort of a Bizzaro Supply Side Economics theory for charitable donations. And we all know how Supply Side Economics works in the real world. You know that job that you have that you haven't gotten a decent raise in more than 4 years and that fear that you have of losing your job because there aren't any new jobs to replace them? That's Supply Side Economics at work. If you don't know by know that rich people like to keep their money and NOT spend it (and certainly not give it away), no matter how much more money they have, then you will probably never learn.
The other laughable side to this (and only laughable because it's so surreal to think that these morons were VOTED FOR, it's easier to laugh than cry) is the Village Idiot President's ridiculous "No Child Left Behind" policy. Cutting funding for Sesame Street is basically saying that you're going to prevent children from being left behind by ensuring that they ALL start at ground zero with absolutely no educational basis to build on. Tabla Rasa. The really sad thing is that this is only going to hurt the poorest of children and the one's already at an educational disadvantage. For those kids, the ones that are allowed to watch Lion King 572 times in a row (great movie, not educational), whose parents take little to no initiative (either out of lack of funds or lack of interest) in getting them some early educational materials, Sesame Street is as close as they're going to get to Baby Einstein.
It just boggles my mind that they look at Sesame Street and they see political bias. It really is demonstrative of how scary far right the Republican powers that be have become when they see an ideologically middle-of-the-road program as a left wing threat. Your entire perception is frame by your basis of origin. And for the right, it just keeps getting further and further out there.
Obviously, they are claiming non-partisan reasons. They say that those programs are "somewhere between need-to-have and nice-to-have.'' It seems this is the general feeling toward an independent media that all Republicans share. Yes, that sound you heard is our Democracy accompanying the Koran in a flush down the toilet.
PLEASE try to stop this. It isn't too late (in fact, an article I read said that the Senate would have to approve the budget, it would be very easy for a Senator to re-institute funding before a vote happens, and the Senate is historically more supportive of Public Broadcasting). I'm going to continue on with my rant in a second, but before I do, click here to send an e-mail, via Move-On.org, to congressfolk letting them know that you need your Big Bird fix and you want to make certain your kids will have the same opportunity.
Returning to the rant, it seems that the theory is that when the federal funding goes away there will be corporate funding that will take it's place. It's sort of a Bizzaro Supply Side Economics theory for charitable donations. And we all know how Supply Side Economics works in the real world. You know that job that you have that you haven't gotten a decent raise in more than 4 years and that fear that you have of losing your job because there aren't any new jobs to replace them? That's Supply Side Economics at work. If you don't know by know that rich people like to keep their money and NOT spend it (and certainly not give it away), no matter how much more money they have, then you will probably never learn.
The other laughable side to this (and only laughable because it's so surreal to think that these morons were VOTED FOR, it's easier to laugh than cry) is the Village Idiot President's ridiculous "No Child Left Behind" policy. Cutting funding for Sesame Street is basically saying that you're going to prevent children from being left behind by ensuring that they ALL start at ground zero with absolutely no educational basis to build on. Tabla Rasa. The really sad thing is that this is only going to hurt the poorest of children and the one's already at an educational disadvantage. For those kids, the ones that are allowed to watch Lion King 572 times in a row (great movie, not educational), whose parents take little to no initiative (either out of lack of funds or lack of interest) in getting them some early educational materials, Sesame Street is as close as they're going to get to Baby Einstein.
It just boggles my mind that they look at Sesame Street and they see political bias. It really is demonstrative of how scary far right the Republican powers that be have become when they see an ideologically middle-of-the-road program as a left wing threat. Your entire perception is frame by your basis of origin. And for the right, it just keeps getting further and further out there.
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