Mr. Rogers Defends PBS

[Revenant]

No joke though, his show sucked, and shouldn't have been subsidized by taxpayers.

[The Dharma Bum]

You probably didn't find it very entertaining because it's for 3-5 year olds. And I think the figure I heard in the video was the program cost $6000. That's not even chicken feed.

[Revenant]

[Davethulhu]

[Ozzone]

What we see here is a classic example of why programs can't get cut, no matter how small. It's only .xxxxxxxx% of the entire budget whatever that miniscule percentage is their cry.

Well multiply that number by thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, whatever, and it adds up. There are so many programs going on right now that nobody probably has an even close to accurate count.

I do agree that with tens or hundreds of billions in wasteful spending should be the target, the real culprit is entitlements. But they have become, thanks to the politicians that benefit from them, the third rail.

In regards to defense spending. Yes, there is considerable spending that isn't necessary and should be targeted for cuts but it's one of those things we may very well regret doing if the cuts gut our military to the point that we put our nation at risk in the event major war breaks out.

[The Comrade]

[Spider]

[The Dude]

A gallup poll showed 7% of people thought 50% of the budget went to funding PBS. So there's something to this idea of cutting PBS to them, lol.

[PoS]

[The Comrade]

you probably hate bob ross too.