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PBS and NPR - Petition
Below is a prime example of a chain letter that keeps circulating the
Internet. If you receive this chain letter, please delete.
David Brumley, the Network Administer at University of Northern Colorado
informed CIAC of the following: "In 1995, a couple of students wrote a
letter and sent it out to support funding for PBS and NPR. This letter
was not intended to be a hoax, but instead was only a misguided attempt
by some students of ours to do some good. After reading through the CIAC
section on HOAX's, I decided to go ahead and verify that in fact this
one should not be circulated. The students (one of whom has left the
university since the posting) have been reprimanded."
Subject: PBS and NPR - petition
Please read this VERY IMPORTANT petition! I hope you will then sign it
and pass it along to everyone you know. We've got to be active in
saving these important institutions! Please sign! Thanks!
This is for anyone who thinks NPR/PBS is a worthwhile expenditure of
$1.12/year of their taxes (as opposed to, say, Newt Gingrich's salary?),
a petition follows. If you sign, please forward on to others (not back
to me).
If not, please don't kill it -- send it to the email address listed
here: wein2688@blue.univnorthco.edu
PBS, NPR (National Public Radio), and the arts are facing major cutbacks
in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending
costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe
that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a
portion of funding for something which is seen as "unworthwhile".
Currently, taxes from the general public for PBS equal $1.12 per person
per year, and the National Endowment for the Arts equals $.64 a year in
total.
A January 1995 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll indicated that 76% of Americans
wish to keep funding for PBS, third only to national defense and law
enforcement as the most valuable programs for federal funding.
Each year, the Senate and House Appropriations committees each have 13
sub- committees with jurisdiction over many programs and agencies. Each
subcommittee passes its own appropriation bill. The goal each year is
to have each bill signed by the beginning of the fiscal year, which is
October 1.
The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of
support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our
voices heard.
Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends if you
believe in what we stand for. This list will be forwarded to the
President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States,
and Representative Newt Gingrich, who is the instigator of the action to
cut funding to these worthwhile programs.
If you happen to be the 150th, 200th, 250th etc. signer of this
petition, please forward a copy to: wein2688@blue.univnorthco.edu. If
that address is inoperative, please send it to:
kubi7975@blue.univnorthco.edu. This way we can keep track of the lists
and organize them.
Forward this to everyone you know, and help us to keep these programs
alive.
Thank you.
Copyright 2004 by Jay Jennings
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