President Obama won’t fund life-saving research for kids at the NIH during the shutdown, but funding PBS — who indoctrinates our kids — is just too vital.
According to the Daily Treasury Statement, the administration allocated $445 million to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) on the very first day of the shutdown, which funds PBS Newshour, NPR and “Sesame Street,” while cancer research has been scrapped.
“It’s more than irresponsible, it is reprehensible. It’s an ‘in-your-face’ move by the administration, blatantly picking winners and losers in this shutdown,” C. Edmund Wright, a columnist for Breitbart.com and American Thinker, told FOX411. “Public broadcasting is a staple of liberal propaganda.”
Director of Media Research Center of Media Analysis, Tim Graham, said that PBS has hosted two “very friendly” interviews with President Obama just in these recent weeks.
“It certainly looks like ‘you scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours,” he continued. “Liberals see PBS and NPR as their own personal sandbox, as a supposed balance of the ‘capitalist bias’ of the commercial networks, as silly as that sounds.”
But the truth is far more sinister, and underscores the darker side to progressivism, the mantra championed by the Democratic Party. They are statists, and to statists brainwashing the public — particularly children — is far more important than life.
CPB defended the outrageous amount of money at a most inappropriate time, stating that their funding was “indispensable”and provide jobs for thousands of people.
“The United States Treasury sent public broadcasters their two-year advance appropriation — a sum, approved by Congress in 2012 for FY 2014, representing only 0.01% of the federal budget,” said rep Kelly Broadway. “Seventy percent of these indispensible dollars are promptly sent to locally-owned and operated stations in cities and rural communities all across the country, as they have been for most of the past 40 years. There, they provide jobs for more than twenty thousand people who are working to support ‘America’s Largest Classroom’ as well as life-long learning for all Americans with our unique cultural, public affairs and news programs.”
Unbelievably, cancer treatment and trials for children were not the only areas to take a back seat to PBS, although the comparison is breathtaking. Juxtaposing the amount allocated to PBS with other high priority policy measures makes this revelation even more disturbing.
The October 1 statement also shows that the Treasury gave almost the same amount on the first day of the government shutdown — $471 million — to the Department of Health and Human Services, who presumably sits at top priority with the rollout of Obamacare. Comparatively, Social Security Benefits received just $171 million, $137 million went to the Postal Service Money Orders, and a lesser amount — $337 million — went toward Unemployment Benefits. The Veterans Affairs programs received $592 million.
Priorities are set in times of crisis, and the administration has clearly exposed their failure of values and twisted set of priorities. How else would it be that state-run propaganda received more money than the above public policies, all of which Obama and the Democrats have exploited at one time or another during the government shutdown?
The answer is a simple, yet sobering truth that liberal indoctrination takes priority over all other issues considered. The state reigns, period, and the law is used to protect and self-perpetuate itself.
“CPB is a nonprofit corporation that is technically separate from the government. So is NeighborWorks, a nonprofit that receives congressional appropriations, just as CPB does. NeighborWorks helped cause the housing bubble; CPB provides the propaganda that anesthetizes the public, preventing people from laying blame for failed policies at the door of the government,” said Matthew Vadum, senior editor at the Capital Research Center. “Keeping a distance by incorporating these entities affords the government plausible deniability when the two nonprofits mess up.”
You may not be too surprised to hear that not one single soul at the Office of Management and Budget could or would respond to a request for comment. Fox News did not receive a response, nor any other organization that we are aware of. Rest assure that we will continue to seek one out tomorrow, and follow-up with this story on People’s Pundit Daily.
