PBS: FUNDING OR DEFUNDING THAT IS THE QUESTION

I listen to NPR and have spent many, many countless hours watching PBS throughout my life and they have their place and value. Both have served me well in my self education journey throughout the years and I support their existence. But you cannot argue that Public Broadcasting as a general rule is not biased on many social issues in most contention today and yesterday. And that bias tends to promote the more Liberal to say the least perspective.

The question: Why should Americans who pay taxes who do not exactly agree with public broadcasting's more Liberal perspectives be forced to have their taxes spent on something that they see as a philosophical and in some cases a real-world existential threat to their country?

Much like the abortion issue and tax money being spent on it. You can have both (within reason) but why force Americans who disagree with the issue and the agenda be forced to pay with their tax money for what they see as a core threat to their country? You could make a first-tier argument for such things like military spending and action where unarguably the security of the country was at risk and where the collective taxation and how those taxes are spent is not in question. But these are second tier more subtle social issues in question.

There is no American equality there and one set of Americans Right to free speech, personal freedom and choice is forced on another set of Americans that disagree to say the least. Both issues might be better served by privately raised donations or corporate and philanthropist funding and not funded by legally confiscated collective tax monies where equality in choice has been usurped. Is that really the core function of government?

Remember, there are consequences to elections when either side of the aisle gains political power and control.

Note: Public Broadcasting claims that they only receive 1% of their funding from government. And if that is so then what is the big issue about? That 1% would be easily replaced by increased donations both private and corporate. Problem solved then there is no collective hot button Congressional tax money spending issue. Just go on your way and produce whatever you please. BUT.

Fact-Check: How Much of PBS, NPR Revenue Comes from Government Funding?

NPR says: “While federal money is important to the overall public media system, NPR gets less than 1% of its annual budget, on average, from federal sources,” NPR said on its website."

The dialed in real world deconstructed numbers? "For fiscal year 2020, for instance, the broadcaster’s affiliate stations received 8 percent of their revenue from federal appropriations via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. They also got 10 percent from colleges and universities — which themselves are publicly funded — and another 5 percent from federal, state and local governments. That is 23 percent, not 1 percent.".

I think one of the main takeaways here is that the complexities of how all of these governmental causes financing systems (See: USAID) are interconnected in many instances are unaccounted for in a black hole of spending other people's money. And that may be by design to some degree. This ultimately demonstrates how monies that are appropriated through duly passed Congressional legislation fund many things that the American people are unaware of and when apprised of the reality of the funding and the causes are not pleased with how much of their tax monies are flowed to those causes that are without question at counter interests to their country. That is not acceptable!

Some causes are formulated with the best intentions of course, and some causes are formulated with the focus of ultimately subverting America and its Constitution and what it ensures, which is a greater degree of Objective personal freedom.

Somehow in time America will sort all of this out. This is our system; this is our process. You agree? You disagree?

Politics: "The dirtiest, filthiest most deadly game that human beings participate in". JGL.

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Are you paying attention yet America? JGL 3/30/25