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FSogol

(45,525 posts) Thu Oct 4, 2012, 08:59 AM Oct 2012

Mitt wants to kill Public Broadcasting? Which costs more: PBS or the Marine Corps Marching Band?

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Mitt wants to kill Public Broadcasting? Which costs more: PBS or the Marine Corps Marching Band? (Original Post) FSogol Oct 2012 OP

You may have started something MattBaggins Oct 2012 #1

This came up when the GOP wanted to kill the National Endowment for the Arts. FSogol Oct 2012 #2

looked it up on google Progressive dog Oct 2012 #3

Question was PBS and they get about 25 million MattBaggins Oct 2012 #4

Yeah, it is complicated. The total budget of all the Military bands is $500 million. FSogol Oct 2012 #5

MattBaggins

(7,904 posts)

1. You may have started something

Reply to FSogol (Original post)

Thu Oct 4, 2012, 09:11 AM

Oct 2012

FSogol

(45,525 posts)

2. This came up when the GOP wanted to kill the National Endowment for the Arts.

Reply to MattBaggins (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 4, 2012, 09:13 AM

Oct 2012

The NEA's budget was 1/4 of the Marine Corps Band's budget.

Progressive dog

(6,918 posts)

3. looked it up on google

Reply to FSogol (Original post)

Thu Oct 4, 2012, 09:14 AM

Oct 2012

Marine corp claims 50 million, whole corp. for public broadcasting gets 445 million.
But, how many people can name one member of the Marine Corps Band? How about Sesame Street?

MattBaggins

(7,904 posts)

4. Question was PBS and they get about 25 million

Reply to Progressive dog (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 4, 2012, 09:17 AM

Oct 2012

FSogol

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5. Yeah, it is complicated. The total budget of all the Military bands is $500 million.

Reply to Progressive dog (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 4, 2012, 09:26 AM

Oct 2012

According to Wiki, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting gets:

"The CPB's annual budget is composed almost entirely of an annual appropriation from Congress plus interest on those funds. For fiscal year 2012, its appropriation was US$445.2 million, including $1M in interest earned). The distribution of these funds was as follows:

$222.36M for direct grants to local public television stations;
$79.87M for television programming grants;
$69.18M for direct grants to local public radio stations;
$26.65M for PBS support;
$22.85M for grants for radio programming and national program production and acquisition;
$22.21M for CPB administrative costs;
$7.04M for the Radio Program Fund."

If you think about all the people employed by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, it is money well spent.

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