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September 21, 2005
Katrina and Public Broadcasting
Just came across this "breaking story" that several Republican Congressmen have proposed to eliminate federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to help pay for the Hurricane Katrina recovery costs.
CPB has already been deeply damaged by Republican cuts, so eliminating federal funding might be more honest than pretending that we have any real public broadcasting in the United States. But given the fact that CPB is a drop in the bucket compared to other forms of government pork, and given some valuable programming supported by the CPB, I think this would be a tremendous loss.
More at the Salt Lake Tribune, including other proposed cuts such as a delay in the start of the new Medicare prescription drug coverage for one year. Because it's more important to build roads and not to tax the rich than it is to give medicine to elderly and poor poeple.
Posted by chuck at September 21, 2005 2:38 PM
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