Well, for starters, PBS provides several educational supplements for schools across the country, saving a ton of money to school districts.
Secondly, they provide the means for secondary education by airing college courses at night, saving colleges money while providing fulltime workers a chance at a secondary education(my wife took some 101 classes through this prgram, enabling here to work fulltime during her first year of college.
Although naysayers wish to trivialize the scenario by saying that "big bird" is subsidized-so what? I would rather have the government spending a couple bucks on a show that teaches kids their abc's rather than billions on a war going nowhere fast.
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Originally Posted by Tannhauser
But why does any portion of the FUNDING have to come from tax dollars?
If Congress wants to charter something where a CPB group would have access to airwaves across the country, fine. But get the money from individuals. Heck, I might even cut them a check if I could stipulate it was used for something I thought was worth while (Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home and NOT Bill freakin' Moyers).
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