Perhaps
I should remind the administration that we have a $1 trillion annual
deficit. That means that each year, we're adding 1 trillion more
dollars to the $16 trillion debt we already owe. I've talked about
budgets on my blog before (here)
but let me remind you a little of what I said then. A budget is a
sort of list of priorities. We can't afford everything we want so we
have to decide which things we're going to spend our money on.
Proverbs
22:7 says that the borrower is the servant of the lender. When we
borrow money, we are giving away our liberty. In the case of our
national debt, much of what we're borrowing is loaned to us from
China. It's sad. What's worse is that we owe far more than can be
repaid in our lifetimes so we are literally making our children,
grandchildren, and even our great grandchildren slaves who will spend
all of their lives and most of their paychecks paying back what we're
spending today. And what do we have to show for it? Sesame Street? Curious George? We're turning our kids into slaves so that our kids can watch
Barney! Oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
We're
financing PBS to the tune of $400 million per year. That's almost
half a billion dollars. It's a lot
of money but it's only about 10% of PBS's annual revenue. If we
stopped funding PBS, they might miss the money but they will
continue. They'll just have to learn do it without tax payer
subsidies like companies have to do it in the real world.
For
the next four years, we need a President who can make the tough
decisions. President Obama can't seem to find anything to cut. How
strange. We can't afford to keep borrowing so some things have to
go. We need a President who is able to decide what our priorities
are. We need to provide employers incentives to hire more people.
We need a strong military and good intelligence to fight the war on
terror. There are dozens other things that I think would come before
funding PBS but I guess Mr. Obama would rather have Big Bird.
Keep
laughing, Mr. President. We'll see who's laughing in November.
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