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mousepod · 02-07-2006, 05:27 PM

Alex,
I'm with you almost all of the way. The one problem I have is that the same folks who run our government and do all sorts of fun grandstanding like the issue at hand are the same people who take money from lobbyists from Clear Channel and the RIAA and legislate against little upstarts who are trying to start their own "small radio stations". Go to the RIAA homepage and type 'podcast' into their search engine and tell me what you see. And don't even get me started on the FCC...

- MousePod (a registered Libertarian and EFF supporter)

Alex · 02-07-2006, 05:31 PM

Oh, I won't argue it is all wonderful. I just don't fall into the "since this incorrect thing is done, this other incorrect thing should be done as well."

You just end up with a briar patch of interlocked interests that can never be fixed because everybody is in love with there piece and will therefore protect the other pieces. Kind of like subsidizing the price of milk for the farmers and then subsidizing the purchase of milk by mothers.

There is a lot in the government I would dismantle or significantly alter, I'm just going to wait until it is all done at once or not at all.

€uroMeinke · 02-07-2006, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

You just end up with a briar patch of interlocked interests that can never be fixed because everybody is in love with there piece and will therefore protect the other pieces. Kind of like subsidizing the price of milk for the farmers and then subsidizing the purchase of milk by mothers.

See, and that's where I'm coming from. There's nothing in it for me to support ending funding for the CPB. I mean what does it really work out to? I recall the NEA worked out to $0.65 a person once upon a time. I doubt I'll see the penny a week increase in my paycheck.

Sure government funding is a clusterfvck, but until I have personal incentive otherwise, I've no deisre to sacrifice my own special interests. Why should I?

02-07-2006, 05:27 PM	#51
mousepod You broke your Ramadar! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,635	Alex, I'm with you almost all of the way. The one problem I have is that the same folks who run our government and do all sorts of fun grandstanding like the issue at hand are the same people who take money from lobbyists from Clear Channel and the RIAA and legislate against little upstarts who are trying to start their own "small radio stations". Go to the RIAA homepage and type 'podcast' into their search engine and tell me what you see. And don't even get me started on the FCC... - MousePod (a registered Libertarian and EFF supporter) __________________ "Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly" - Walt Disney
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02-07-2006, 05:31 PM	#52
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Oh, I won't argue it is all wonderful. I just don't fall into the "since this incorrect thing is done, this other incorrect thing should be done as well." You just end up with a briar patch of interlocked interests that can never be fixed because everybody is in love with there piece and will therefore protect the other pieces. Kind of like subsidizing the price of milk for the farmers and then subsidizing the purchase of milk by mothers. There is a lot in the government I would dismantle or significantly alter, I'm just going to wait until it is all done at once or not at all.
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