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DOUG
Bush's planned budget cuts will hurt public broadcasting immensely.

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WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - President George W. Bush took a swipe at Big Bird and his ilk Monday as he proposed slashing funds to public broadcasting by more than $150 million.

In the president's 2007 budget request, funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will be cut by $53.5 million in 2007 and $50 million more in 2008. Those cuts don't reflect others made in funding at the Education and Commerce departments and the elimination of specific programs for digital TV conversion and satellite delivery system. Public broadcasting officials estimate that the entire budget cuts run $157 million over the two-year period.
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DAR
It can be useful to compare such things to how much Bush is blowing in his optional war in Iraq. Reputable sources have put it at about 8 billion per month. It's easily MUCH more than that if you consider the long term costs. But if you go with that, it's two billion per week, or 285 million per day. So Bush wants to destroy PBS by cutting an amount considerably less than he spends EACH and EVERY DAY in Iraq.

Incredible really.



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