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Watalapan

(93 posts) Tue Aug 8, 2017, 01:47 PM Aug 2017

Trump To Cut Funding For PBS While His Familys Lavish Lifestyle Costs Taxpayers This Astronomical S

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Trump To Cut Funding For PBS While His Familys Lavish Lifestyle Costs Taxpayers This Astronomical S (Original Post) Watalapan Aug 2017 OP

The Repukes have been chomping away at PBS for a long time katmondoo Aug 2017 #1

An end to government funding would leave certain areas of the country without public radio and TV, still_one Aug 2017 #2

katmondoo

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1. The Repukes have been chomping away at PBS for a long time

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Tue Aug 8, 2017, 01:51 PM

Aug 2017

At one time is was commercial free now 5 or 6 minutes every half hour, plus the fund raising goes on forever. Now this great programming may just end.

still_one

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2. An end to government funding would leave certain areas of the country without public radio and TV,

Reply to Watalapan (Original post)

Tue Aug 8, 2017, 01:59 PM

Aug 2017

replaced by commercial stations that are less affordable, more saturated with advertising, and less educational.

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