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ResistWeMuch Wrote: Oct 10, 2012 10:37 AM

Some "Fun Facts": * The federal government gave the CPB a grant of $444.1 million in 2012. * Between 2003 and 2006, Sesame Street made a net profit of more than $211 million from toys and consumer product sales. * The former President & CEO of Sesame Workshop and current President & CEO of NPR, Gary Knell, earned $956,513 in 2008. That's more than Obama, Biden, and Pelosi earned in their public capacities in 2008...COMBINED. He earned $988,456 in 2011. * Sesame Street received $1,067,532 from the Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Stimulus Act of 2009 and reported that it created "1.47 jobs." * Sesame Workshop Executive Vice-President, Sherrie Westin, who earned $463,892 in 2011, has admitted that it doesn't need government subsidies

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ResistWeMuch Wrote: Oct 10, 2012 10:37 AM

* The actor, who plays Big Bird (Carroll Spinney), doesn’t have a salary that puts him in the 1%, but he’s not far off: Spinney made $314,072 in 2011.

* The president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, according to the CPB’s tax forms, Patricia De Stacy Harrison, earned $361,895 in 2011.

* The President and CEO of PBS, Paula Kerger, earned $669,260 in 2011. Its COO, Michael Jones, earned $477,296. Its CFO, treasurer, and senior vice-president, Barbara Landes, earned $402,355. Katherine Lauderdale, PBS' senior vice-president and general counsel, earned $381,855.

* The current president and CEO of Sesame Workshop, H. Melvin Ming, earned $584,572 in 2011. Among other salary standouts at Sesame: Lewis Bernstein

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ResistWeMuch Wrote: Oct 10, 2012 10:38 AM

($406,387), Terry Fitzpatrick ($439,741), Myung Kang-Huneke ($389,005), Susan Kolar ($401,425), Miranda Barry ($397,175), Maura Regan ($379,733), Joseph Mazzarino ($556,165), Caralynn Sandorf ($354,476), and Anita Stewart ($455,369).

Yet, President Obama & other Progs believe that we should borrow more money from China, Japan, and Wall Street in order to prop up an enterprise that earns hundreds of millions in profits and whose executives are part of the 1%.

(Some data courtesy of NRO)

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ResistWeMuch Wrote: Oct 10, 2012 10:38 AM

@jeffemanuel “nothing says “I’ve completely lost control of this narrative” like embracing…a seven-foot-tall yellow-feathered multi-millionaire.”

Winnah!

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Dot2Dasher Wrote: Oct 10, 2012 10:45 AM

Actually it's a perfect example of why Romney is just as screwed as Obama. There's nothing to cut that really matters a damn that anyone is willing to accept.

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Angie74 Wrote: Oct 10, 2012 10:49 AM

Why all the expletives Dot? Can you not make a point without the language?

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Dot2Dasher Wrote: Oct 10, 2012 10:52 AM

If I choose to. And damn isn't anything Sweetheart. Take your PC demands and shove them.

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ResistWeMuch Wrote: Oct 10, 2012 11:30 AM

Look at Dottie! Defending the 1% teatsuckers!

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