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Originally Posted by Your Neighbor
moveon.org arrived.
the numbers are accurate,
if you add up moveon.org's crap you could not run KYW for two weeks,
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Don't worry, I'll try to go slow for you "chimpanimal", and while you constantly dictate opine, I'll provide source information not from moveon, but from the Bush Administration.
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Originally Posted by Your Neighbor
it costs $1.4billion a year for PBS and NPR of which $1billion comes via federal assets and $400mill via donations.
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Wrong.
"PBS and NPR" are alloted federal monies only through the Corporation For Public Broadcasting.
This year the CPB was given $420 by the federal government.
Here's a pretty excel type sheet to get your facts straight.
http://www.cpb.org/aboutcpb/financia...n/history.html
And here's their operating budget for 2008.
http://www.cpb.org/aboutcpb/leadersh...tingbudget.pdf
It plainly says "$400 million" plus "15million" in interest from the federally allocated funds.
6% is spent on system support.
5% on CPB operations.
75% on television.
25% on radio.
Once its all boiled down, a local pbs station such as whyy only gets 13% of their funding from the government-which includes state and local government funding as well.
If you don't believe in this report, blame republicans, not "moveon", since they are the ones running "PBS and NPR". Republicans outnumber democrats on the board of directors by a margin of 5 to 3. The Chair and ViceChair are also republican.
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Originally Posted by Your Neighbor
moveon does not count anything that is not a direct cost,
so for instance the facility in which these entities are located is FREE-the product which the gov't could sell off to someone is worth NOTHING. The assets are gov't owned and operated costing nothing and worth nothing.
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The government can't "sell the facility in which these entities are located" because it doesn't own them. Neither does "PBS and NPR", and neither does the CPB. The stations and subsequent properties are locally owned and managed.
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Originally Posted by Your Neighbor
So the idiotic $400mill figure is for nothing more than salaries, programming and supplies -
not for equipment, real assets or anything else for that matter.
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Ahhh, now you got it! And guess what? The $400 million doesn't even partially cover what you mentioned. The "equipment, real assets or anything else for that matter" is paid for by members, donations, and corporate grants-and of course, "by viewers like you"
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Originally Posted by Your Neighbor
As if it all matters, the chimpanhumans will have you paying for their private entertainment no matter the cost,
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Kinda like the way corporate welfare has given a free lunch to publicly traded companies?
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Originally Posted by Your Neighbor
BTW the guise of intellectualism is f'in hilarious.
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I will agree with that notion-you attempt to show yourself as an well informed person, but you are dumber than dogsh*t.