GOP wants to Kill Big Bird

GOP aims to cut spending on Public broadcasting and environmental protection. With the Oceans still drowning in Oil, the Air choking our children and the Water in various sections of America being undrinkable, I guess it is sensible that the poor's children don't learn to read from Sesame Street so that they wont be aware of their plight. Seems like the only kind thing to do while they starve.

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Killing Big Bird: GOP budget would end PBS / NPR funding

The Republican House majority put out a shocker of a budget Thursday that would slash spending by $32 billion in the next seven months. Among the glaringly ideological Republican targets are environmental protection programs and public broadcasting. The “war on Big Bird,” as some fans of PBS have called it, has a strong backer in Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn, who this session has introduced two bills to zero out funds for public TV and radio.

After Fox News launched a campaign to “defund” NPR in the fall, Lamborn appeared on the network several times and ratcheted up his rhetoric around the bill.

Political extremists in Congress have introduced six — yes, six — bills that would cut all funding for NPR, PBS and other public media. As early as next week, they could vote to pull the plug on the news, arts and educational programming on which more than a hundred million Americans rely…

For some communities, local NPR and PBS stations are the only source of serious reporting. They also employ thousands of journalists — at a time when commercial newsrooms are shedding jobs.

In addition to Lamborn’s bills, U.S. lawmakers have introduced HR 235, the “Cut Unsustainable and Top-Heavy Spending Act,” by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas); HR 408, “Spending Reduction Act,” by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio); S 178, the Senate version of the “Spending Reduction Act,” sponsored by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.); and S. 162, the “Cut Federal Spending Act,” by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Read more at coloradoindependent.com

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