2012-10-03, 22:52 | Link #903 | |
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i have a plasma TV and 2 ipads, and they're tuned to the following: plasma - CNN CNN post debate coverage is... just that... CNN quality ipad 1 - FOX NEWS more professional grade coverage (for a supposed 'partisan' channel) under Van Sustren... will veer to niche audience when Hannity appears. ipad 3 - MSNBC ... wow |
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2012-10-03, 23:16 | Link #906 |
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Greta Van Susteren is one of their somewhat more independent journalists and I'll actually credit her with the title "journalist" instead of "stupid moron"
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2012-10-03, 23:27 | Link #910 |
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Oh I know that. But the Federal funds go to local stations. (Ranges around 30% of funding I believe for these stations) Which is a lot more important to many rural areas. Private donations usually go to production.
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2012-10-03, 23:29 | Link #911 | |
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The sad bit of nonsense with Romney's "Obama cut $700B from Medicare" is that Obama *saved* $700B by eliminating wasted monies that weren't going to patient care anyway. Translation: for-profits will profit less. That's exactly the same kind of savings Romney would have to do. To some extent, the federal support of public broadcasting is similar to the "Rural Electrification Act" that brought electricity to farms ... or the deals the telecoms had to cut to extend wireless to rural locales. My state would get by, but many other states would simply lose it.
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2012-10-03, 23:47 | Link #914 | |
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2012-10-03, 23:50 | Link #915 |
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Rumor has it that even if they cut everything aside from obligation funds (money the government it obligated to pay every year) the deficit still grows by some millions of dollars because the income base isn't even up to the government's obligations. That is the rumor.
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2012-10-03, 23:51 | Link #916 | |
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Which becomes circular argument altogether. u_u Personally IMO unless we switch into a healthcare funding system akin to other western democracies, our deficits and debt cannot be handled at all in the long term without getting rid of social programs that much of the American public supports. (Like California's Democratic heart and Republican wallet paradox)
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2012-10-03, 23:59 | Link #917 | |
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2012-10-04, 00:10 | Link #918 | |
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A sick nation can't produce anything, neither can a poorly paid individual take care of himself to produce something; there has to be a workaround, which unfortunately both parties are too busy antagonising each other to come up with something like that.
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2012-10-04, 00:18 | Link #919 | |
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On the other hand I'm willing to do some austerity, but not in the middle of a recession or economically weak time. Much evidence (AKA Britain and the EuroZone) have shown how abrupt austerity leads to double-dip recessions.
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2012-10-04, 00:21 | Link #920 | |
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