The current result I hear is the takers, outside of medicare and medicaid and social security represents 2% of the budget, now a number of these takers are good people I know, my sister with a debilitating stroke, a bud who has lost his job a hard worker all out good guy, and to think we should not help these people is criminal. Why then you tell me should we provide a tax cut to the rich and cut social programs? Sure it is my tax dollars, and my tax dollars going to someone in need is more important to me than a tax cut for the wealthy…end
@Rod
You never will. These guys will, even if you do get on, talk over you and shut you off if you start to make any sense at all.
Of course you are right, dagosa. I have heard all the Pharr Right Radio heads fall all over themselves trying to give their engineers an opportunity to catch the caller catching their breath to cut them off at an opportune time and jump into some scripted diatribe. I am amazed that so many people are so caught up in the DJs rhetoric that they don’t recognize the deception. But most of the time the screeners only allow opposing opinions if the caller is totally off the wall.
It is funny you talk of that, there was a protest for wtmj as they only prestented right wing agenda,
You read Fair and balanced, like fox news you decide.
By Lisa Kaiser
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Well, this is hilarious.
I wrote about the Media Action Center’s challenge to the license renewals of WTMJ-AM and WISN-AM based on their alleged violations of the Zapple Doctrine. (Eric Von graciously allowed me to discuss this on his WMCS radio show this morning.)
But a curious thing happened while I was reporting the story.
I contacted the FCC for comment.
Turns out that they couldn’t confirm that they had received the challenge. I was shuffled through an alphabet soup of bureaus and departments at the commission and still could not get a confirmation. Someone else had it. They couldn’t find it. I’d have to file a Freedom of Information Act request to get it. They’d get right back to me—maybe. After Thanksgiving. Before my deadline. No, really, before my deadline.
You know what it’s like. (For what it’s worth, if you want a job without a whole lot of work duties, apply for one at the FCC. They don’t seem to do much besides hand off emails and phone calls to someone else. Well, the ones they don’t ignore, at any rate.)
So I contacted Sue Wilson, the head of the Media Action Center, to figure out what was happening with the legal challenges. She duly forwarded me a postal confirmation receipt showing that she had, indeed, mailed them and that, indeed, someone at the FCC had received them. She said that the FCC routinely “misplaces” communications from the public. It’s sort of a black hole of complaints, she said. (Watch her documentary Broadcast Blues for more on this matter.)
So my article was published yesterday in print and on the Shepherd’s website.
And lo and behold, I get a press release from the Media Action Center today stating that the FCC “misplaced” MAC’s challenges to the license renewals of WTMJ and WISN. And the only reason that the FCC became aware of the complaints is because reporters contacted the commission.
Hilarious! (And predictable.)
FCC Misplaces Petitions to Deny Broadcast Licenses
to Milwaukee Radio Stations Who Gave $1 Million
Free Airtime to Walker Recall Campaign
And, BTW, I was a fan of Limbaugh in his first years when he was just a talkative, overweight Nerd. He was non political and mostly spoke of football and the dating scene. And also, Glen Beck was no great conservative power house. He was begging for support in his Clearwater Florida Motel and would be a left wing fanatic if only there had been a progressive with money in his radio audience. All the Right Wing GURUs are just latter day Lonesome Rhodes.
What part of EIB, entertainment in broadcasting do you not get. It is not about facts, it is about entertainment, rush sitting there laughing while he can lie and jerk your chain!
I would enjoy the opportunity to ask Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannety, Mark Levin and the full lineup of GOP White House hopefuls what they propose doing with those "lazy ghetto baby factories."
Here in Boston we have a local talk host (jay Severin)…who’s far worse then these guys.He was fired from a station in NY…then twice fired from WTKK here in Boston. He’s still at it…but now in AM. Total scum. Little punk who “thinks” he’s important. And the one thing they all seem to have in Common…All chicken hawks - Always spouting war and sending our troop’s to war…but were chicken to serve themselves.
Andy’s character was quite prophetic of things to come.
I recall seeing the movie on the big screen the first time and not fully understanding the plot until seeing it a few years later. At that second viewing Griffith’s character rang a bell with me that never stopped ringing.
One has to wonder where his paycheck comes from. Correction No we do not have to wonder.
And I believe that “A Face in the Crowd” has been and will continue to be pushed into oblivion by the right wing powers that be. The GOP is scared to death of that movie.
I don’t listen to Fox or Rush and I’m not against helping those in need at all. I’ve pretty much voted democratic or independent but question the answers we are given. I do believe in effective programs though that solve problems and most of what I’ve seen either sustain the problem or make it worse.
And its just anecdotal but I know of a 17 year old that happily got pregnant in high school. Through special programs she was able to finish school. Through special programs she is able to attend nursing school mostly free of charge. Through special programs she rents a house with assistance that her folks were able to buy to rent to her. Of course there are other food and medical programs available to her. And this is in South Dakota which is one of the most conservative states. So are we solving anything or are we enabling dysfunction?
Like I said in contrast, 40 years ago I paid my school loans off myself-started with $60 payments out of $80 Army pay. We didn’t have kids until 6 years after marriage when we were well established. We saved and paid $100,000 plus for kids college-made too much money to qualify for grants. And yes we had some tough times but I think what we did was healthier for all around.
I’ll just add another example to add to the questions I have. Whether I am right or wrong I can’t say but are just observations.
I was a charter member of our county Habitat for Humanity program. I really believed in it and spent about 7 years working my tail off building houses for less advantaged. The firest house we built, shortly after the couple took over, they bought a brand new truck. On another one, I got a little po’d when the neighbors complained about the grass not being cut. So after my 11 hour day I went over to cut it and had problems with my mower. Two days later I went back to finish and the new owner just sat on the steps and watched me. Hadn’t made any attempt to even cut the grass for the two days it took me to fix the mower and return. Then we found out her boy friend was moving in. The combined incomes would have disqualified her but since they weren’t married, she kept the house. I bailed then and resigned. On another house after that, the new owners expressed great appreciation because now she could afford to not work and enjoy her kids.
And I understand that there are a great number of needy, hard working people that just need help. But I think at some point we need to articulate the culture that leads to success and insure our expensive programs do not detract from that culture. I am very disappointed that I have heard nothing new coming out of this administration and the forced fiscal cliff cuts seem like a breath of fresh air (most of them).
Without a doubt, the war on poverty has ushered in a culture of entitlement that is being gamed by a generation that has only a meager claim on the generosity of tax payers but the bureaucratic machine is not easily steered and the captain is blind and the deserving are receiving a pittance. So what’s next? Let them all die and let God sort them out?
@Bing
I hear you, but the money saved by bring two productive members into society, one a nurse and one an advantaged off spring is immense. A life of poverty would do little for this “child” mother and her unborn. Great for SD. The record is clear, even if as you say, it’s just anecdotal. The argument against such programs is finacial, the arguement for is two human lives in need, one an innocent child. The second wins hands down. If SD residents wanted a better solution prior to this effort, better family planning options should have been available.
Again, count the cost benefit to society of this effort vs the typical hording of funds by offshore acounts and rewarding efforts of moving jobs over seas. This pales in significance regardless of how many times the story is repeated. Every cent of money spent on this child goes back into the American economy. The same cannot be said of the advantaged wealthy .
If you offer every American, universal healthcare and education, cradle to grave, there would be no separation of wealthy vs the poor and examples like this would happen much less. We would be all better off. If you think education and healthcare for all is a freebie for those who don’t deserve it, it still takes work to be a student and productive society member and it still saves our society money for it’s residence to be in good health.
Spend your political time saving lives by promoting worthwhile gun laws and supporting healthcare instead of denying it thus taking lives by restricting education and healthcare by class.
Well I’ve seen it happen around here,if you-lets say were a bit irresponsible with your money and social obligations,the County would step in and magically give you a new energy efficient house.But if you were a struggling hard working ,honest productive citizen,trying to pay as you go and build a home-they would hound you to death(such is the power of zoning and the unelected bureaucracy)-Kevin
Where do I go to get my free house ?
And this is the crux of the question/problem. You believe that the programs will produce healthy, productive, responsible future citizens. I am beginning to question whether instead they produce reliance on programs and generate generations of dependents on the programs. Never-ending and expanding. Maybe the current needy are first-generation needy but I don’t think so. I haven’t seen any studies though. There are unintended consequences though in every program with wonderful intentions. When you raised your kids, was everything provided for them or were they required to contribute to the family? Which produced the better results?
Dag,believe me you dont want to go there.This one of those all to frequent areas that have no middle class.You ever watched that show on TV the “Waltons” they lived like kings,they actually lived a lot better then 90% of the people in my neighborhood.While you couldnt exactly term it third world,you could be generous and term it 2.5 world-the type of stuff that LBJ sought to adress in his war on poverty.A lot of peopple around here scarcely had 2 nickles to rub together,as a child I remember the chores(carrying water ,etc;) so these sometimes misguided efforts do help some people ,also the reason the best and brightest had to flee this area to have a chance at the american dream-Kevin
The poor, and more specifically the black poor, have a long standing tradition of being culturally and financially isolated and treated like chattel. Their situation has not changed significantly in my lifetime despite the grand efforts of LBJ. Traditions are difficult to walk away from for anyone. I don’t have any solutions but it is quite obvious to me that the politicians will continue to kick this can down the road to avoid dealing with it.
As for the Waltons. When the recession hit their mountain they had the land and the home left by an earlier generation that had prospered and accumulated some wealth. And they had a tradition of raising their own garden and livestock and cutting and selling timber from their mountain. One state away from the Waltons there were tens of thousands of coal miner families whose only tradition was working themselves to an early grave and dying in debt to the company store. And the tradition in Mississippi for share croppers was even more bleak. If interested a search of the 1927 flood in the Mississippi Delta might give some insight into the traditions from what some like to think of as “the good ole days.”