Obama: No sense in defunding public broadcasting

[Spiraling Leopard]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/149001-obama-no-sense-in-defunding-public-broadcasting?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d7a888a65677b06%2C0

President Obama defended public broadcasting from cuts on Friday, emphasizing that defunding networks like NPR and PBS would do little to rein in spending.

As Republicans in Congress hope to defund government assistance to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which in turn supports NPR and PBS stations, Obama said the cuts make little sense.

"I think it's going to be important for us to have a conversation after we get the short-term budget done, about how do we really tackle the problem in a comprehensive way," Obama said at a press conference on Friday.

"And that means not just going after Head Start or Corporation for Public Broadcasting. That's not where the money is," he added.

Republicans included in their continuing resolution to fund government the rest of this year provisions that would severely cut support for public broadcasting. Calls to defund those networks have only intensified after a conservative activist's video emerged this week showing a former NPR executive referring to the Tea Party movement in harsh terms.

Democrats, in turn, have accused Republicans of trying to defund "Sesame Street," the popular children's program on PBS.

Obama, commenting earlier in his press conference on the spending fight in Congress, urged lawmakers to steer clear of including political statements — like defunding CPB — as part of their measure to fund government the rest of this fiscal year.

"These aren't really budget items; these are political statements," Obama said. "I've said, again, directly to Speaker Boehner that we're happy to discuss any of these riders, but my general view is let's not try to sneak political agendas into a budget debate."

[Rubystars]

Sesame street is a very left wing program anyway, and PBS still gets a lot of private donations.

[TheCoon]

The country has a 1.4 trillion dollar deficit and these vermin politicians are arguing over NPR/PBS. That's a sign the US is dying and people need to start saving their money and making sound investments for the coming financial apocalypse. Soon the US won't even be able to pay back the interest payments on its debt.

They're trying to distract from the enormity of the fiscal situation by highlighting small issues like this. The laws of economics will catch up to the USA. It is printing money right now to pay its debts and this is unsustainable. All JTFers should invest in natural resources like oil, silver or gold and make sure if they can to store it outside of the US. You can bet if the US goes bankrupt, Obama and friends will steal money from the people to keep themselves afloat and that means your bank accounts.

[mord]

No sense obama, thats the muzzie bolshevik obama's middle name