About half of "public" television in this country is funded by pledge drives and the third sector already. I'm sure defense contractors like Boeing and Lockheed Martin can spare the chump change to keep intact the part of this critical service's budget that actually is public without the coal miners feeling the pinch.
But, you know, what do I know about it being a "critical service"? It's not like I grew up five miles from nowhere down a dirt road with cows for neighbors and watching Arthur on my thirteen-inch television was the high point of my day or anything. I suppose my working single mother's bootstraps just weren't long enough to afford to park me in front of Power Rangers instead.
...what? I'm literally talking about growing up poor.
We're talking about JerryArkansas so the form of privilege in question might consist of as little as having 23 pairs of largely un-mutated human chromosomes...
I guess maybe he didn't understand that I was being sarcastic, but I would have thought the last sentence made that pretty clear.
