Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Bush to slash public broadcast funds
WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - President George W. Bush took a swipe at Big Bird and his ilk Monday as he proposed slashing funds to public broadcasting by more than $150 million.
In the president's 2007 budget request, funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will be cut by $53.5 million in 2007 and $50 million more in 2008. Those cuts don't reflect others made in funding at the Education and Commerce departments and the elimination of specific programs for digital TV conversion and satellite delivery system. Public broadcasting officials estimate that the entire budget cuts run $157 million over the two-year period.
The cuts in public broadcasting are part of an attempt by the White House to reduce the country's red ink as the administration seeks more money for the military and seeks to make Bush's first-term tax cuts permanent.
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I would dearly LOVE to see this happen. Unless you can find a place in the Constitution where it should fund public arts -- especially leftist arts -- then we can keep it. However...
WTH
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# posted by Publius @ 2/07/2006 11:13:00 AM 
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