that comment "Elections have consequences" echoes much truth...
PBS and NPR for example losing their funding..because of those elected... I mean that's crazy we are talking "sesame street" a program that helps children learn to read significantly.. Do we really want to make children dumber by jeopardizing a station that helps children to read!? If I am not mistaken Sesame Street was partially created to help educate and teach inner city kids how to read. Do we really want to be around a bunch of illiterate dumb inner city kids!?
"stations are preparing for budget shortfalls, potential layoffs, and program changes"
...then of course funding is cut that monitors diseases viruses and the safety of the food we eat...
Do we really want to make children dumber by jeopardizing a station that helps children to read and do we really want to know if the food we eat will make us sick!?
Its hard to believe such programs are facing cutbacks and lack of funding they have previously been using to enrich our lives with educating children and monitoring the safety of what we eat everyday. There now might be a void in history now of literate children and data about various food borne illnesses diseases for awhile. It does have scientific and even has humanitarian values when we keep tabs on monitoring food born illnesses. It is considered to be a center for disease control isn't it? How we gonna control food born illnesses without a dedicated surveillance program that tracks food born diseases!?
We are facing a world of disadvantaged kids who might not grow up with the qualities and lessons of Sesame Street, a ton of educational programing will be missing and there will be a world of people who can't even keep track of food born illness/disease patterns throughout the world to save their own lives.
The Masked Man
P.S
Also I forgot to mention public tv's Sesame Street helps people with basic math.. people that can't count or have problems with math aren't as able to do estimates or count things that make a difference... math even helps with ascertaining risks and percentages of stuff.. then because certain programs are cut in the CDC we can't count things that should be counted like percentage of food born illness.. we can't establish or study the patterns we don't want to be a part of as well... that's a lot of facts and figuring that just got thrown out the window when they cut fundings to PBS, NPR and the CDC ... that's a lot of missing things which previously served as tools enriching our lives and making us smart and providing useful knowledge and info.
By the way, I happen to like and even cherish programs that helps us read and count things and programs that help determine if a bunch of food might kill me or not or might be tainted with illness.
