Are we now facing legislated ignorance? (Re: U.S. Public Broadcasting funding)

Actually, I'd say that NPR and PBS are one of the better examples of the taxpayer actually receiving something of value for their tax dollars and would like to see increased tax funding of both. We need to look at what value we get from our tax dollars, and there I think the US would likely rank near the bottom of developed countries. Since the great disaster called the Reagan Administration, we seem to have been redirecting tax support of everything worthwhile to Corporate Wellfare. Reagan and those following on have destroyed the US education system (after he decimated the California system for practice which was arguably the best in the nation) and that will be reflected in the future standing and competitiveness of the US. They have destroyed what was probably the best health care system in the world. They have gutted what was the leading evironmental effort in the world.To say we are facing legislated ignorance is not an understatement. In fact, the goal seems to be the establishment of ubiquitous ignorance.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

First, just to set the record straight, I am a registered Republican. The first political campaign I worked in was for Eisenhower's relection. In that campaign I was still but a child just entering that pre-teen period and was the campaign manager for the Eisenhower camp in a mock election and Electoral College Convention. I have been active in every presidential election since then. I was a Young Republican and the Adult Advisor for a chapter of TAR. I have been a poll worker, campaign transportation coordinator, worked phone banks and distributed flyers. I am a conservative and would say more of a Goldwater Republican than a Rockerfeller Republican.That out of the way, yes, I think you summerized my beliefs (which I'll be happy to support in some other thread). Yes I left out the disastrous reigns of Bush the 1^st. & 2^nd..Ronald Reagan did more to legislate and perpetuate ignorance than any other figure in modern history. And The Bushes have continued the rape and pillage of American society.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Please point out where I have said anything like that?What did the rest of your post have to do with the thread?

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

here is a link to a 70's pdf copy of a campaign brochure. '72 Brochure

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion