Your paragraph 3 begets your paragraph 2, which in turn, begets your paragraph 1.

You have it right, just a little bit out of order.

I am actually looking forward to your comments when you right wingers finally get your wish for the government to stop spending money on the public. One plus is immigrants will stop coming here in such high numbers. Another is you will finally be educated about what happens when your government takes on a life of its own and stops serving its own people.

I can understand why some of the founders thought it foolish to allow the common people who are so ignorant to vote. I am so amazed at how ignorant so many of our citizens are. It is truly disturbing. The combination of self righteousness, incredibly high self-esteem, and absolute stunning ignorance are the hallmarks of the average American voter, and they don’t need PBS reminding them of how ignorant they are. They want to watch Jersey Shore and feel smarter than everyone else.

They will still be carrying most of the programming that is being cut from WSRE.

My apologies, did not mean to do so. Nonetheless, I’ve read that question many times over the years and believe it always deserves a serious answer. (Especially since I’m usually so serious.) Others had also dealt with it ere I did. Also, if I took it out of context, it’s quite possible others did too, so again I figure it’s worth addressing.

We benefit from many things in ways we never know or notice. A cousin of mine was complaining about all the money spent on “defense” in this country and how much good it could do if it weren’t. I agreed but had to remind her the money WAS spent giving jobs to Americans. Maybe it could have been spent better giving other jobs or even–heresy, though it might be–not taking it away from the original owners through taxes in the first place so they could spend or invest their money according to their needs and desires.

I don’t think any money should be spent just to give people jobs but believe it SHOULD be spent for jobs which are NEEDED. I also like the idea of spending money for training. At one time the federal government paid 2/3 of the cost of summer jobs to St. Regis and other businesses. It made it worth their time to train them and gave them useful work experience which made it easier for them to get jobs in the future, and pay more income taxes which could have been spent to train even more kids. (Summer jobs also put many through college.)

David taking out of context
while for planning ahead

–and… “If they could accept advertising and produce local programming in conjunction with the educational opportunity, it’d probably continue to provide a service.”

–Then tallyho mumbled…huh! Sad, Sad, Sad!!

–I said…That is a good point, SW.One could imagine a scenario where someone like Rick Scott, instead of cutting the funding, attempted to take control of an entity such as Public Television for his own nefarious purposes. Now *that’s* frightening. It’s bad enough to pick up the phone and have him on the other end.

–and….(again to SW) You hit the nail on the head with that part of your post. It is actually my understanding that PBS is about to start accepting commercials. They have been pretty close to that for a while now with their acknowledgements to sponsors before and after a presentation.

–Then to huh…Well,huh. Look’s like tallyho sure presented a fine argument there! Don’t try to debate with that one.

You can always opt out by leaving the state and moving to a state which does not include a guaranteed free public education for its children unlike Florida. I’m not sure you can find such a state in the USA but am pretty sure some third world nations would accommodate you.

Anyway, if you live in a state and are a citizen of that state, you are subject to the laws of that state. The supreme law within a state is the state constitution, therefore, as long as you stay in Florida and until the constitution is changed, you are pretty much stuck with it.

Take heart, though; you still benefit from a public education. If you need medication, it’s likely the nurse learned how to read in a public school, so you want her as well trained as possible. You live around people who learned their civic duties not only from their loving and decent parents, but also from their schools. Those who made the grade are far less likely to rob you than those who didn’t receive a full public education. The cashier at WalMart, the mechanic working on your brakes, the farmer who grew your food, the people who handle it, the plumber working on your toilet, the doctor cutting into your body all learned much of what you need them to know in public education.

You hope they learned well because your life is on the line in hundreds of ways every day based on what they were taught and what they learned. You’re still benefiting.

David considering a bargain