[tomder55]

PBS has a $475 million dollar budget, only 15% of which comes from the taxpayers .Sesame Workshop (the organization behind Sesame Street) is raking in an average of over $50 million per year in merchandizing . Cut the public funding immediately .

[NeedKarma]

PBS has a $475 million dollar budget, only 15% of which comes from the taxpayers .Sesame Workshop (the organization behind Sesame Street) is raking in an average of over $50 million per year in merchandizing . Cut the public funding immediately .

With that thinking then why do the oil companies get subsidies?

[tomder55]

They shouldn't and wouldn't if I ran things .

[NeedKarma]

The oil company subsidies are millions upon millions more then PBS gets - that's where you should focus you efforts.

[speechlesstx]

The oil company subsidies are millions upon millions more then PBS gets - that's where you should focus you efforts.

Neither should all the failing "green" companies.

[NeedKarma]

Neither should all the failing "green" companies.

Yea but that's new, the oil subsidies have been going on for decades. How come you guys haven't had any success getting those stopped?

[paraclete]

Pigs at the trough, there is a certain mentality in politics where if you feed the pigs at the trough all this lovely green stuff flows back to you

[speechlesstx]

Yea but that's new, the oil subsidies have been going on for decades. How come you guys haven't had any success getting those stopped?

Yea but that's new? And that makes it better how? FYI, Romney said Exxon's tax breaks are "on the table". We'll see.

[talaniman]

He also said that 47% of the country were lazy losers who will never take responsibility because they pay no taxes. My 87 year old mom is still pissed. Through her pill cutters away but don't tell on me!

[speechlesstx]

I believe he more than displayed his compassion at the debate. He destroyed Team O's narrative carefully crafted narrative. Team O's newest strategy fits right in with the Nickelodeon/Sesame Street offensive, "nana nana boo boo, Romney's a lying poo poo!"

[Wondergirl]

I believe he more than displayed his compassion at the debate.

What compassion? He doesn't know what that is.

[NeedKarma]

Team O's newest strategy fits right in with the Nickelodeon/Sesame Street offensive, "nana nana boo boo, Romney's a lying poo poo!"

Hey that's the same strategy used here too!

And yet Obama continues to lie

[speechlesstx]

Hey that's the same strategy used here too!

One major difference, the element of truth is on my side.

[Wondergirl]

One major difference, the element of truth is on my side.

Governor Romney hasn't yet told us what his truth is.

[NeedKarma]

One major difference, the element of truth is on my side.

That's what all the unrepentant liars say!

[tomder55]

The oil company subsidies are millions upon millions more then PBS gets - that's where you should focus you efforts.

What part of my response did you not understand ? But let me put this into perspective .Renewable energy companies have received 1000 times the subsidies that oil companies do, per kilowatt-hour of energy produced.So where is the dollar better spent ?
Again... I oppose subsidies to private industry . It is a liberal economic 'pick winners and losers concept that runs against my free market economy ideas .

[NeedKarma]

Again... I oppose subsidies to private industry . It is a liberal economic 'pick winners and losers concept that runs against my free market economy ideas .

Unfortunately that's never going to happen for either party as long as their pockets are lined with corporate donor money.

[talaniman]

Federally Funded Green Energy Projects ? Not Such A Failure After All - Gas 2

It is easy to say something has failed but what does failed mean? Well, if charted goals were set and not met than that would be a failure. Certainly if a business closed or filed for bankruptcy that would also be a failure. However, when Republicans say that Obama's clean energy campaign has failed they tend to site failed or struggling business and not the industry itself. Yes, some budding green businesses took federal loans and ended up closing shop. But for the few that failed many more prospered and overall the green energy industry is doing well on not only in America but on a global scale as well.

You do know the green industry goes beyond just solar panels don't you and the failure rate of green companies is 5% in the US.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/06/opinio...obs/index.html

[paraclete]

Good article Tal should be more of Romney's facts get checked along with his arithmetic

[talaniman]

When you can win a debate with energy and style(?), but the facts are NON existent, that's truly winning ugly, but some don't care about facts. But the FACTS are coming out.