"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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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

Yeah, I ain't so happy about *my* public funds supporting the murder of
innocent Iraqis, Afghans and a myriad of other peoples around the world who
happen to live in countries where our gov. wishes to foment death and
destruction--regardless of the presiding administration!

Op