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Pay of PBS, NPR, and CPS executives
The WSJ had a piece by Jim Demint on why Public Broadcasting Should
Go Private . It is interesting to see t he salaries of those involved. You can read the whole article at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...p_mostpop_read If you are going to read the article, do not bother to read the quotes below. For those too lazy to go to the source, I posted most of the information on salaries. Dan But if PBS can pay Ms. Kerger $632,233 in annual compensation—as reported on the 990 tax forms all nonprofits are required to file— surely it can operate without tax dollars. According to CPB's 2009 tax forms, President and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison received $298,884 in reportable compensation and another $70,630 in other compensation from the organization and related organizations that year. That's practically a pittance compared to Kevin Klose, president emeritus of NPR, who received more than $1.2 million in compensation, according to the tax forms the nonprofit filed in 2009. In 2001, the federal government appropriated $340 million for CPB. Last year it got $420 million. As Congress considers ways to close the $1.6 trillion deficit, cutting funding for the CPB has even been proposed by President Obama's bipartisan deficit reduction commission. Instead, Mr. Obama wants to increase CPB's funding to $451 million in his latest budget. Meanwhile, highly successful, brand-name public programs like Sesame Street make millions on their own. "Sesame Street," for example, made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales from 2003-2006. Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 in compensation in 2008. Last year, for example, the Open Society Foundation, backed by liberal financier George Soros, gave NPR $1.8 million to help support the latter's plan to hire an additional 100 reporters. |
Pay of PBS, NPR, and CPS executives
On Mar 5, 5:57*am, " wrote:
*The WSJ had a piece by Jim Demint on why Public Broadcasting Should Go Private . *It is interesting to see t he salaries of those involved. *You can read the whole article at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...57617666378931... If you are going to read the article, do not bother to read the quotes below. *For those too lazy to go to the source, I posted most of the information on salaries. Dan But if PBS can pay Ms. Kerger $632,233 in annual compensation—as reported on the 990 tax forms all nonprofits are required to file— surely it can operate without tax dollars. According to CPB's 2009 tax forms, President and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison received $298,884 in reportable compensation and another $70,630 in other compensation from the organization and related organizations that year. That's practically a pittance compared to Kevin Klose, president emeritus of NPR, who received more than $1.2 million in compensation, according to the tax forms the nonprofit filed in 2009. In 2001, the federal government appropriated $340 million for CPB. Last year it got $420 million. As Congress considers ways to close the $1.6 trillion deficit, cutting funding for the CPB has even been proposed by President Obama's bipartisan deficit reduction commission. Instead, Mr. Obama wants to increase CPB's funding to $451 million in his latest budget. Meanwhile, highly successful, brand-name public programs like Sesame Street make millions on their own. "Sesame Street," for example, made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales from 2003-2006. Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 in compensation in 2008. Last year, for example, the Open Society Foundation, backed by liberal financier George Soros, gave NPR $1.8 million to help support the latter's plan to hire an additional 100 reporters. So when will Faux News quit sucking off the public tit via tax credits that subsidize it more than PBS? Then maybe Roger's compensation (8.3 MILLION) will be adjusted back down to Earth... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes TMT |
Pay of PBS, NPR, and CPS executives
wrote in message ... The WSJ had a piece by Jim Demint on why Public Broadcasting Should Go Private . It is interesting to see t he salaries of those involved. You can read the whole article at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...p_mostpop_read If you are going to read the article, do not bother to read the quotes below. For those too lazy to go to the source, I posted most of the information on salaries. Dan But if PBS can pay Ms. Kerger $632,233 in annual compensation—as reported on the 990 tax forms all nonprofits are required to file— surely it can operate without tax dollars. According to CPB's 2009 tax forms, President and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison received $298,884 in reportable compensation and another $70,630 in other compensation from the organization and related organizations that year. That's practically a pittance compared to Kevin Klose, president emeritus of NPR, who received more than $1.2 million in compensation, according to the tax forms the nonprofit filed in 2009. In 2001, the federal government appropriated $340 million for CPB. Last year it got $420 million. As Congress considers ways to close the $1.6 trillion deficit, cutting funding for the CPB has even been proposed by President Obama's bipartisan deficit reduction commission. Instead, Mr. Obama wants to increase CPB's funding to $451 million in his latest budget. Meanwhile, highly successful, brand-name public programs like Sesame Street make millions on their own. "Sesame Street," for example, made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales from 2003-2006. Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 in compensation in 2008. Last year, for example, the Open Society Foundation, backed by liberal financier George Soros, gave NPR $1.8 million to help support the latter's plan to hire an additional 100 reporters. These salaries are small change compared to those of defense contractor CEOs who get 100% of their funding from the goverment. I don't begrudge either group. If the goverment is going to buy something, there needs to be a competent, motivated organization to provide it. So what is the goverment buying from CPB? Every other media outlet is completely beholden to corporate interests for advertising revenue. The goverment is buying children's programing that does not push kids into believing that suger cereal and drinks are real food. It is buying investigative reporting that does not back down when threatened by corporate interests. (Did you know the Mythbusters were going to do a show on RFID chip security or insecurity when they got a call from the credit card corporate laywers? Discovery networks made them cancel it.) Since Public Broadcasting is the only media outlet not completely under their control, it is no wonder corporate interests are now pushing to shut it down. The constitution is based on checks and balances of political power. The founders could not have anticipated how politically powerful large corporations would become. I see public media as an important balance to corporate control of information, and it is one that is critical to our republic. |
Pay of PBS, NPR, and CPS executives
On Mar 5, 5:03*pm, "anorton" wrote:
Meanwhile, highly successful, brand-name public programs like Sesame Street make millions on their own. "Sesame Street," for example, made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales from 2003-2006. Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 in compensation in 2008. The goverment is buying children's programing that does not push kids into believing that suger cereal and drinks are real food. Odd that you would say the government is buying childrens programming when " Sesame Street " brings in for PBS about half as much as the government subsidy. Dan |
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wrote in message ... On Mar 5, 5:03 pm, "anorton" wrote: Meanwhile, highly successful, brand-name public programs like Sesame Street make millions on their own. "Sesame Street," for example, made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales from 2003-2006. Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 in compensation in 2008. The goverment is buying children's programing that does not push kids into believing that suger cereal and drinks are real food. Odd that you would say the government is buying childrens programming when " Sesame Street " brings in for PBS about half as much as the government subsidy. Dan Is your pedant mode on, Dan? g You know the figures, right? The total Sesame Workshop contribution from CPB is around 1.7%. But there would have been no Sesame Street, or any of the half-dozen or so other shows from the Workshop, without the CPB, and partnering contributions from the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. It was part of the push to get preschool education into the parts of America in which parents couldn't send their kids to private preschools. If we can't support things like that, we'd might as well all turn the government over to Goldman Sachs and be done with it. -- Ed Huntress |
Pay of PBS, NPR, and CPS executives
Ed Huntress wrote:
But there would have been no Sesame Street, or any of the half-dozen or so other shows from the Workshop, without the CPB, and partnering contributions from the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. It was part of the push to get preschool education into the parts of America in which parents couldn't send their kids to private preschools. If we can't support things like that, we'd might as well all turn the government over to Goldman Sachs and be done with it. didn't we do that already? -- Ed Huntress |
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"jim" wrote in message ... Ed Huntress wrote: But there would have been no Sesame Street, or any of the half-dozen or so other shows from the Workshop, without the CPB, and partnering contributions from the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. It was part of the push to get preschool education into the parts of America in which parents couldn't send their kids to private preschools. If we can't support things like that, we'd might as well all turn the government over to Goldman Sachs and be done with it. didn't we do that already? They still work behind the scenes. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Mar 5, 7:34*pm, Hawke wrote:
On 3/5/2011 3:57 AM, wrote: * The WSJ had a piece by Jim Demint on why Public Broadcasting Should Go Private . *It is interesting to see t he salaries of those involved. *You can read the whole article at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...57617666378931... If you are going to read the article, do not bother to read the quotes below. *For those too lazy to go to the source, I posted most of the information on salaries. Dan But if PBS can pay Ms. Kerger $632,233 in annual compensation as reported on the 990 tax forms all nonprofits are required to file surely it can operate without tax dollars. According to CPB's 2009 tax forms, President and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison received $298,884 in reportable compensation and another $70,630 in other compensation from the organization and related organizations that year. That's practically a pittance compared to Kevin Klose, president emeritus of NPR, who received more than $1.2 million in compensation, according to the tax forms the nonprofit filed in 2009. In 2001, the federal government appropriated $340 million for CPB. Last year it got $420 million. As Congress considers ways to close the $1.6 trillion deficit, cutting funding for the CPB has even been proposed by President Obama's bipartisan deficit reduction commission. Instead, Mr. Obama wants to increase CPB's funding to $451 million in his latest budget. Meanwhile, highly successful, brand-name public programs like Sesame Street make millions on their own. "Sesame Street," for example, made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales from 2003-2006. Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 in compensation in 2008. Last year, for example, the Open Society Foundation, backed by liberal financier George Soros, gave NPR $1.8 million to help support the latter's plan to hire an additional 100 reporters. Two points; PBS only receives about 15% of it's revenue from the federal government. The rest comes from donations from viewers and other sources. So the fact is the amount going to PBS from the taxpayers is very small and believe me there are millions of taxpayers who do want their money to keep going there. The other thing is the sham these spending cuts are. They are only to domestic discretionary spending. As such they only amount to a pittance of what needs to be cut to bring the deficit down. So no matter how much of this kind of cutting is done it's not going to make a dent in our financial problem. That will only be addressed by cutting the so-called non discretionary items like defense, medicare, and social security. Everyone knows this, so this supposed spending reduction is not to bring fiscal order to the country. It's just a thinly disguised way for the right wing to eliminate many liberal programs that they don't like. It's nothing more than that. Just as the governor of Wisconsin is using the budget as an excuse to eliminate collective bargaining for unions, the right wing is using "spending cuts" as a way of ending programs they have always hated. In other words, the republicans are not being honest. They are just using this budget deficit as an excuse to eliminate liberal programs. If they were really serious about the deficit and the debt they would be cutting the defense budget and the entitlement programs. Funny how they have scrupulously avoided those? Which should tell you how serious they are about fixing things. Hawke- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - It tells us how dishonest they are. And how dishonest their followers are. TMT |
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Ed Huntress wrote:
"jim" wrote in message ... Ed Huntress wrote: But there would have been no Sesame Street, or any of the half-dozen or so other shows from the Workshop, without the CPB, and partnering contributions from the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. It was part of the push to get preschool education into the parts of America in which parents couldn't send their kids to private preschools. If we can't support things like that, we'd might as well all turn the government over to Goldman Sachs and be done with it. didn't we do that already? They still work behind the scenes. I hate when they do that... -- Richard Lamb email me: web site: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb |
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On Mar 5, 6:28*pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
Is your pedant mode on, Dan? g You know the figures, right? The total Sesame Workshop contribution from CPB is around 1.7%. Ed Huntress I thought that Sesame Street was a money maker and contributed to CPB, not the other way around. Have you seen the Sesame Street rec park in Eastern PA? Dan |
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wrote in message ... On Mar 5, 6:28 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote: Is your pedant mode on, Dan? g You know the figures, right? The total Sesame Workshop contribution from CPB is around 1.7%. Ed Huntress I thought that Sesame Street was a money maker and contributed to CPB, not the other way around. I haven't kept up with the funding wars for PBS, but the last time I looked, Sesame Street's corporate sponsorship, etc., was being used to fund the many worldwide projects of Sesame Workshop (which grew out of the Children's Television Workshop, the producer of Sesame Street). The federal government funding is basically a token arrangement, which serves both as a lightning rod for anti-PBS activity and as a connecting link to the original government support. The idea of public television is that it is of and for the public, and government backing is a part of that relationship. Full disclosu I worked for PBS's predecessor, NET, in 1969. -- Ed Huntress Have you seen the Sesame Street rec park in Eastern PA? Dan |
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message ... wrote in message ... On Mar 5, 6:28 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote: Is your pedant mode on, Dan? g You know the figures, right? The total Sesame Workshop contribution from CPB is around 1.7%. Ed Huntress I thought that Sesame Street was a money maker and contributed to CPB, not the other way around. I haven't kept up with the funding wars for PBS, but the last time I looked, Sesame Street's corporate sponsorship, etc., was being used to fund the many worldwide projects of Sesame Workshop (which grew out of the Children's Television Workshop, the producer of Sesame Street). The federal government funding is basically a token arrangement, which serves both as a lightning rod for anti-PBS activity and as a connecting link to the original government support. The idea of public television is that it is of and for the public, and government backing is a part of that relationship. Full disclosu I worked for PBS's predecessor, NET, in 1969. -- Ed Huntress Have you seen the Sesame Street rec park in Eastern PA? Dan Whoop, I missed that last question. No, I haven't been in there, but I drive by it. -- Ed Huntress |
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"Hawke" wrote in message ... of what needs to be cut to bring the deficit down. So no matter how much of this kind of cutting is done it's not going to make a dent in our financial problem. That will only be addressed by cutting the so-called non discretionary items like defense, medicare, and social security. Actually, SOCIAL SECURITY COSTS THE GOVERNMENT ABSOLUTELY NOTHING--because historically, the citizens pay way more funds into it than they've recieved back.... The problem comes in because the government "borrows" the excess and spends it, issuing bonds that concievably will come due at some point in the future. SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_...es)#Trust_fund "Social Security taxes are paid into the Social Security Trust Fund maintained by the U.S. Treasury (technically, the "Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund", as established by 42 U.S.C. § 401(a)). Current year expenses are paid from current Social Security tax revenues. When revenues exceed expenditures, as they have in most years, the excess is invested in special series, non-marketable U.S. Government bonds, thus the Social Security Trust Fund indirectly finances the federal government's general purpose deficit spending. In 2007, the cumulative excess of Social Security taxes and interest received over benefits paid out stood at $2.2 trillion." -- |
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On 3/7/2011 9:57 PM, PrecisionmachinisT wrote:
wrote in message ... of what needs to be cut to bring the deficit down. So no matter how much of this kind of cutting is done it's not going to make a dent in our financial problem. That will only be addressed by cutting the so-called non discretionary items like defense, medicare, and social security. Actually, SOCIAL SECURITY COSTS THE GOVERNMENT ABSOLUTELY NOTHING--because historically, the citizens pay way more funds into it than they've recieved back.... The problem comes in because the government "borrows" the excess and spends it, issuing bonds that concievably will come due at some point in the future. SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_...es)#Trust_fund "Social Security taxes are paid into the Social Security Trust Fund maintained by the U.S. Treasury (technically, the "Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund", as established by 42 U.S.C. § 401(a)). Current year expenses are paid from current Social Security tax revenues. When revenues exceed expenditures, as they have in most years, the excess is invested in special series, non-marketable U.S. Government bonds, thus the Social Security Trust Fund indirectly finances the federal government's general purpose deficit spending. In 2007, the cumulative excess of Social Security taxes and interest received over benefits paid out stood at $2.2 trillion." I agree with you. Social Security actually has a surplus right now. But to get the budget in balance it needs to be modified. All the so-called entitlements need to be adjusted so they are not going to cost more than we can afford. We also need revenue adjustments too, which means the highest tax rate needs to be raised. It's pretty easy to balance the budget really. You just raise taxes a bit on the most well off and you make some minimal cuts in what is to be paid out in entitlement programs. What you don't do is take a meat axe to all the domestic spending and infrastructure spending by only cutting services in the discretionary part of the budget. Hawke |
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On Mar 8, 2:50*pm, Hawke wrote:
I agree with you. Social Security actually has a surplus right now. Hawke Actually current Social Security taxes are no longer enough to pay for the current Social Security benefits. For years Social Security taxes brought in enough that there was a surplus, but that ended last year. It is even worse now because the amount collected from the people ( not the company contribution ) was cut to stimulate the economy. Dan |
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wrote in message ... For years Social Security taxes brought in enough that there was a surplus, but that ended last year. That is correct. -- |
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"Hawke" wrote in message ... On 3/7/2011 9:57 PM, PrecisionmachinisT wrote: wrote in message ... of what needs to be cut to bring the deficit down. So no matter how much of this kind of cutting is done it's not going to make a dent in our financial problem. That will only be addressed by cutting the so-called non discretionary items like defense, medicare, and social security. Actually, SOCIAL SECURITY COSTS THE GOVERNMENT ABSOLUTELY NOTHING--because historically, the citizens pay way more funds into it than they've recieved back.... The problem comes in because the government "borrows" the excess and spends it, issuing bonds that concievably will come due at some point in the future. SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_...es)#Trust_fund "Social Security taxes are paid into the Social Security Trust Fund maintained by the U.S. Treasury (technically, the "Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund", as established by 42 U.S.C. § 401(a)). Current year expenses are paid from current Social Security tax revenues. When revenues exceed expenditures, as they have in most years, the excess is invested in special series, non-marketable U.S. Government bonds, thus the Social Security Trust Fund indirectly finances the federal government's general purpose deficit spending. In 2007, the cumulative excess of Social Security taxes and interest received over benefits paid out stood at $2.2 trillion." I agree with you. Social Security actually has a surplus right now. But to get the budget in balance it needs to be modified. All the so-called entitlements need to be adjusted so they are not going to cost more than we can afford. We also need revenue adjustments too, which means the highest tax rate needs to be raised. It's pretty easy to balance the budget really. You just raise taxes a bit on the most well off and you make some minimal cuts in what is to be paid out in entitlement programs. What you don't do is take a meat axe to all the domestic spending and infrastructure spending by only cutting services in the discretionary part of the budget. Bull****. The govenrment needs to quit using "surplus" social security income as a ****ing slush fund, increase taxes if there is a shortfall and provide a tax return ( or put into a zero interest trust fund ) where there occurs a surplus ..... End of problem... Paradoxically, the trust fund was originally established in the 80's because at that time, payouts had begun to exceed revenue and the shortcome was being added to the national defecit. -- |
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F. George McDuffee wrote:
why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail Probably for the same reason that the union bosses and extortionists aren't - government collusion. Thanks, Rich |
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