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Congressional Republicans Ready to Cut CPB Funding

Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
I came away from the November 2010 elections with the understanding that Republicans gained many legislative seats because THE PRESIDENT had failed to generate sufficient new jobs. (The president gets the credit, the president gets the blame.) I came away with the understanding that our newly elected legislators along with the properly chastened and warned incumbents understood the votes had said: "We want only ONE thing before you move on to anything else: JOBS. JOBS. JOBS."

So why are we talking about CPB Funding in this thread and everybody giving their pet view of public broadcasting: Because Congress is currently fixated on cutting funds for public broadcasting, cutting funds for Planned Parenthood, cutting funds for implementation of the new Health Plan.

The hell with jobs! We have to take care of IMPORTANT business first!
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I think I may have an interesting view on this for you to consider.

While the President and Congress beat each other up over issues that are insignificant, they're not passing laws that invariably harm the businesses that hire people. This whole gridlock thing sounds pretty good right now, and you'll also notice that the President (any president) sees an increase in approval ratings when he's on vacation, not doing anything. I read an interesting statistic today. The stock markets have historically increased 8 times as much when Congress is not in session.

Think about that.

The less they do, the better off we are.

So let them act like children and argue about this stuff, while we go about our daily business. I wouldn't even mind if one side of them ran off to another country like the Wisconsin assembly did.
 
More simply put, when the President and Congress are open for business it costs America $14.1 trillion dollars. When the government is shut down it costs about a few hundred million. The less government gets done the freer America stays.
 
Silkie said:
When the government is shut down it costs about a few hundred million. The less government gets done the freer America stays.
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Be careful what you wish for. Your wish might come true.

We hear these "veiled threats" that congress will do nothing, and the whole kit-and-kaboodle will cease operating on March 4th. So then our congressmen will be at home watching and listening to Public Broadcasting, realizing what a mistake it would have been to "cut them out of the will".

If you find congress sitting on the side of the road, can you call AAA and get a jump start for them?
 
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