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.