Gene Cottrell wrote:
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In all seriousness...who would view PBS as offensive?

Your pal,

TBone


I think it's admirable to support PBS, if that's what you like. I just don't
think public money (i.e. taxes) should be used to support it. They run lots
of fund raising campaigns and I hope they get enough. If something in the
arts is worthwhile, it should be self supporting. The cream will float to
the top.

Gene

An admirable humanistic philosophy.....but why artificially limit its
scope to the arts? Is the same not true for all human endeavor? In
fact, is this not simply the expression of natural law, as indicated by
the use of a metaphor describing a well-known natural phenomenon? Why
should public funds be used to support anything? Leave it alone,
whatever "it" may be, it'll sort itself out.

For that matter, why even have public funds at all?

Wolfgang