Big Bird driving deficit

[AURocketman 73]

Given Obama's comment I was looking for some good natured banter between Golf and Bird.

[Auburn85 424]

Yeah, Mitt gave that one detailed example. Of course it's not going to balance the budget. Too bad Obama didn't critique his detailed mentions of oil subsidies and the corporate jet tax loophole in regards to the deficit.

It's the battle of (exaggerating) reducing the debt by 1/1000 vs 1/10000. Who will win? Stay tuned. In all reality, neither of them will lower the deficit.

Obama's $4 trillion deficit reduction over 10 years doesn't mean the national debt will be reduced from $16 trillion to $12 trillion.

[augolf1716 20,164]

Given Obama's comment I was looking for some good natured banter between Golf and Bird.

I chased bird away. His to scared to come around anymore.

[au2004ece 30]

Given Obama's comment I was looking for some good natured banter between Golf and Bird.

I chased bird away. His to scared to come around anymore.

I doubt he survived this encounter.... http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ai-xmm558Ng

[augolf1716 20,164]

Given Obama's comment I was looking for some good natured banter between Golf and Bird.

I chased bird away. His to scared to come around anymore.

I doubt he survived this encounter....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ai-xmm558Ng

That is a beautiful thing just made my morning.

[au2004ece 30]

Yeah, Mitt gave that one detailed example. Of course it's not going to balance the budget. Too bad Obama didn't critique his detailed mentions of oil subsidies and the corporate jet tax loophole in regards to the deficit.

It's the battle of (exaggerating) reducing the debt by 1/1000 vs 1/10000. Who will win? Stay tuned. In all reality, neither of them will lower the deficit.

Obama's $4 trillion deficit reduction over 10 years doesn't mean the national debt will be reduced from $16 trillion to $12 trillion.

Romneys comment about PBS wasn't supposed to be an example of a big cut. He wanted to indicate that he can make tough spending decisions by telling Lehrer to his face that he wasn't going to support Lehrer's job anymore.

[Auburn85 424]

Given Obama's comment I was looking for some good natured banter between Golf and Bird.

I chased bird away. His to scared to come around anymore.

I doubt he survived this encounter.... http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ai-xmm558Ng

Haha, that was great.

[TigerNBham 3]

Romney has a history of taking a functioning organization and chop it up and sell the pieces off for profit.

Look out USA.

Wonder who gets Yellowstone ?

China may already have a lien on it though.

AS I remember, the Mittster also favors Big OIl.

Maybe that is why duh Bird is so scarce these days ?

You start talking about oil and chopping up and dissecting and I can understand why it appears Big Bird has flown the coup.

Fear the Cleaver ?

[au2004ece 30]

Romney has a history of taking a functioning organization and chop it up and sell the pieces off for profit.

Look out USA.

Wonder who gets Yellowstone ?

China may already have a lien on it though.

AS I remember, the Mittster also favors Big OIl.

Maybe that is why duh Bird is so scarce these days ?

You start talking about oil and chopping up and dissecting and I can understand why it appears Big Bird has flown the coup.

Fear the Cleaver ?

Hahaha. You people are crazy. "profit is bad even when it raises everybody's standard of living." Ohh-k.

[AUtiger98 24]

If Sesame Street were removed from PBS and move to the private sector it would be the most profitable kids show around. I imagine Disney or Nick Jr. would pay out the wazzu to have the show on TV. I'd buy stock in SS if that happened.

Romney's point was bigger than PBS and Big Bird. It doesn't make sense to go into debt further to fund public TV, public radio, free cell phone for the poor, have redundant services provided by numerous government agencies, ect.

Some at NPR feel like they don't need the Federal Funding anyway.

[maxwere 82]

“Parents embraced “Sesame Street” for several reasons, among them that it assuaged their guilt over the fact that they could not or would not restrict their children’s access to television. “Sesame Street” appeared to justify allowing a four- or five-year-old to sit transfixed in front of a television screen for unnatural periods of time. Parents were eager to hope that television could teach their children something other than which breakfast cereal has the most crackle. At the same time, “Sesame Street” relieved them of the responsibility of teaching their pre-school children how to read—no small matter in a culture where children are apt to be considered a nuisance.... We now know that “Sesame Street” encourages children to love school only if school is like “Sesame Street.” Which is to say, we now know that “Sesame Street” undermines what the traditional idea of schooling represents.”

Whereas a classroom is a place of social interaction, the space in front of a television set is a private preserve. Whereas in a classroom, one may ask a teacher questions, one can ask nothing of a television screen. Whereas school is centered on the development of language, television demands attention to images. Whereas attending school is a legal requirement, watching television is an act of choice. Whereas in school, one fails to attend to the teacher at the risk of punishment, no penalties exist for failing to attend to the television screen. Whereas to behave oneself in school means to observe rules of public decorum, television watching requires no such observances, has no concept of public decorum. Whereas in a classroom, fun is never more than a means to an end, on television it is the end in itself.

Yet "Sesame Street" and its progeny, "The Electric Company," are not to be blamed for laughing the traditional classroom out of existence. If the classroom now begins to seem a stale and flat environment for learning, the inventors of television itself are to blame, not the Children's Television Workshop. We can hardly expect those who want to make good television shows to concern themselves with what the classroom is for. They are concerned with what television is for. This does not mean that "Sesame Street" is not educational. It is, in fact, nothing but educational-in the sense that every television show is educational. Just as reading a book-any kind of book -promotes a particular orientation toward learning, watching a television show does the same. "The Little House on the Prairie," "Cheers" and "The Tonight Show" are as effective as "Sesame Street" in promoting what might be called the television style of learning. And this style of learning is, by its nature, hostile to what has been called book-learning or its handmaiden, school-learning. If we are to blame "Sesame Street" for anything, it is for the pretense that it is any ally of the classroom. That, after all, has been its chief claim on foundation and public money. As a television show, and a good one. "Sesame Street" does not encourage children to love school or anything about school. It encourages them to love television .

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

[Auburn85 424]

LeVar Burton said this is "an attack on children."

[autigeremt 6,106]

Given Obama's comment I was looking for some good natured banter between Golf and Bird.

I chased bird away. His to scared to come around anymore.

I doubt he survived this encounter....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ai-xmm558Ng

Haha, that was great.

Awesome! Funny stuff right there!

[autigeremt 6,106]

Romney has a history of taking a functioning organization and chop it up and sell the pieces off for profit.

Look out USA.

Wonder who gets Yellowstone ?

China may already have a lien on it though.

AS I remember, the Mittster also favors Big OIl.

Maybe that is why duh Bird is so scarce these days ?

You start talking about oil and chopping up and dissecting and I can understand why it appears Big Bird has flown the coup.

Fear the Cleaver ?

90 Billion dollars to "green" energy where WE lost most of that money to failures, while a lot of the rest went to Obama bundlers. Yep, that's Big Bird all over, and over, and over, and over.....

[maxwere 82]

LeVar Burton said this is "an attack on children."

To Burton, PBS shows, such as “Sesame Street,” provide lower-income children with access to education and information that they normally wouldn’t have access to:

What? Do they lock these kids out of libraries? Only whitey can view websites like scribd? Do these people hear themselves talk? This is total BS!

[Auburn85 424]

LeVar Burton said this is "an attack on children."

To Burton, PBS shows, such as “Sesame Street,” provide lower-income children with access to education and information that they normally wouldn’t have access to:

What? Do they lock these kids out of libraries? Only whitey can view websites like scribd? Do these people hear themselves talk? This is total BS!

I know I'm beating a dead horse and possible annoying people with mentioning this so much...but now, I'd like to ask Burton if it's an attack on the D.C. children for eliminating the school voucher program.

[FHeal 4]