The PBS Talking Point: Has it Stuck as Well as it Seems?

[Politico]

In the real world, you cannot run perpetual trillion dollar deficits. In order to get the deficit in shape, you need to start somewhere. Romney will try his damnedest to get things under control. Clearly Obama lives in a fantasy world where we can borrow from China indefinitely (Obama is not a numbers guy, so of course he cannot wrap his head around the situation). They're going to stop borrowing the minute Obama wins re-election if that happens.

PBS gets a lot of their funding from donations and will continue to do so.

[Politico]

Gotta start somewhere. PBS is a good place to start. Sesame Street - if it is profitable will find a home on another network.

Donations will ensure PBS continues. "Brought to you by viewers like you." Haven't you guys ever watched PBS?

[Politico]

Guys, believe me, Romney does not want to have this debate about laying off Big Bird.

America wants to hear about jobs and getting the deficit in shape, not about figments of the Obama campaign's imagination. Romney is not the guy that the Obama campaign has imagined him to be. People realize this now, so the Obama campaign would be wise to drop their nonsense and talk like civilized adults in this issues-dominated eleciton.

[Politico]

There were a couple weird things done by Romney that could have hurt him if Obama hadn't done so poorly. This is definitely the big one. He wants to fire big bird and told an old guy to his face he would fire him. Surely a winning strategy for getting the mom vote or the 50-65 vote. Also the you don't have to listen of you are over 60 part was pretty odd...if he makes gaffes like this again it will catch up with him

Romney said if something is not worth borrowing money from China for, he will not do it. PBS can manage with donations. We cannot afford to leverage ourselves to the hilt so that China can destroy our currency in five or six years (make no mistake about it: That is China's end game; you didn't really think they're lending us trillions of dollars out of the goodness of their hearts, did you?)

Big Bird is not the issue.

[Politico]

Gotta start somewhere. PBS is a good place to start. Sesame Street - if it is profitable will find a home on another network.

Donations will ensure PBS continues. "Brought to you by viewers like you." Haven't you guys ever watched PBS?

Presumably Romney's new cap on deductions would have a depressive effect on charitable giving, no?

People are motivated by helping others with their donations. Do you have such little faith in your fellow countrymen?

[Politico]

There were a couple weird things done by Romney that could have hurt him if Obama hadn't done so poorly. This is definitely the big one. He wants to fire big bird and told an old guy to his face he would fire him. Surely a winning strategy for getting the mom vote or the 50-65 vote. Also the you don't have to listen of you are over 60 part was pretty odd...if he makes gaffes like this again it will catch up with him

Romney said if something is not worth borrowing money from China for, he will not do it. PBS can manage with donations. We cannot afford to leverage ourselves to the hilt so that China can destroy our currency in five or six years.

Big Bird is not the issue.

You do know the % of foreign owned debt owned by China is decreasing. It's down to about 25%. Japan suprisingly is the next biggest holder with 20%. Suprisingly the same people who tried to get the USA worried about Japan in the 1980's are scaremongering again but this time about China.

China currently has US reserves in the trillions. If they dumped it on the ForEx today, they'd destroy our currency and therefore our economy.

Maybe some folks like being dominated by others, but I prefer seeing America on top.

[Politico]

China currently has US reserves in the trillions. If they dumped it on the ForEx today, they'd destroy our currency and therefore our economy..

This would also destroy their own economy.  Get your head out of your ass.

Today? Yes. In 5-10 years? No.

The Chinese are thinking long-term, unlike Obama and Co.

[Politico]

If China dumped $3-4 trillion on the ForEx on a single day in 5-10 years, when they can do it without being reliant upon exports to us and decide to signal they have no confidence in our ability to honor our debt obligations, the greenback would look like the ruble did in 1998.

The Chinese are not hoarding and building up these massive reserves because they love America, and certainly not because they love Big Bird. They will flip us the bird when the moment is right. They want to be the nation that dethroned the superpower. They want to be the wave of the future.

But let's talk about Big Bird and gay marriage for Bert and Ernie, right?

[Politico]

"I want to fire big bird" is the 2012 debate line that will go down in history.

One, "I love Big Bird" is what he said. Two, only 15% of PBS' budget comes from federal subisides. If we cannot even cut PBS subsidies, if even that is considered untouchable, then we might as well just sign over everything to China on November 7 because this country is finished in that case.

Hey, liberals, if Obama wins then maybe PBS can help you learn Mandarin next year?