05-06-2008, 09:31 AM
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Cheesesteak GURU! Wiz with
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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The Con-sti-tu-tion
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Originally Posted by ChiefSalsa
PBS is the type of thing the government should be spending money on. It makes us alot smarter.
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That's an odd statement from someone who claims to be a small government enthusiast.
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Originally Posted by alesis
Well, for starters, PBS provides several educational supplements for schools across the country, saving a ton of money to school districts.
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Why should the Federal Government be doing anything related to local school districts?
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Originally Posted by alesis
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.
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Public Access Chanels and the Channels used by the Universities also serve this purpose, so it's clearly redundant.
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Originally Posted by alesis
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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And I'd rather have the Federal Government doing what it's assigned to do by The Constitution rather than meddling in every aspect of public life spending billions of tax payer's hard earned dollars.
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