Let's Keep Funding NPR and PBS

[Below is my response added to the petition signature to ask Congress to continue funding PBS and NPR. To sign the petition, follow this link: http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/dont_defund_npr/?rc=fb_share1 ]

No, no, no! Public radio and television is perhaps the only stations worth tuning into these days, and offering the only balanced media coverage. This sort of media coverage has always been valued as a vital part of our democracy, and has always been supported, financially by the Federal government.

If we are looking for savings to balance the budget, may this taxpayer suggest:

1. We reduce our military spending dramatically;
2. Pursue the huge cost savings in the current health care bill recently passed, or;
3. Better still, a universal health care bill;
4. Ensure that those who benefit most from our capitalism, corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes;
5. Keep Congress focused on what they claim they were voted into office to do--reduce the huge budget deficit created during the Bush tenure, create jobs, reinvigorate an economy brutalized by deregulation during the Bush presidency, and not what they appear to be doing now--wasting taxpayers dollars pursuing an agenda few taxpayers are interested in--reversing the health care legislation, reversing women's rights to choose, and defending one of the most critical tools of our democracy.

Please stop wasting our money and get to work on what the voters put you in office to do.

On Abortion: Listen to Palin

Thia morning, after listening on NPR to the craziest GOP rationale for restricting a woman's right to choose and where funding might be coming from to make this choice, I heard the following quote from one of the GOP's spokeswoman, "Instead of a government thinking that they need to take over [and] make decisions for us according to some politician or politician's wife's priorities — just leave us alone. Get off our back" (Click here for the story).

If Palin is this upset about Michelle Obama's program to restrict children from being fed crap for school lunches, imagine how upset she'll be when she discovers that members of her own party want to restrict her right to planning her parenthood!