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television today that the federal government, that has $13.6 trillion worth of debt ought to continue to spend half a billion dollars a year on government subsidized medias? juan: what you are going to hear, i can anticipate this for you, senator, you are going to hear from every local station around the country because npr has member stations and everybody in that district is going to call up and say don t defund public radio. it s as if public radio would disappear if it wasn t for public funding. i don t know that it would disappear so the question is though, how do you respond when you start to get that pressure from npr constituencies? well, i think you respond by looking at what the constitution says, juan. where is it in the constitution that says the federal government is supposed to be funding competition for private networks with a public television or public radio in any way? you know, it would be different if we had the luxury of not having trillion-dollar deficits.
$13.6 trillion worth of debt ought to continue to spend half a billion dollars a year on government subsidized medias? juan: what you are going to hear, i can anticipate this for you, senator, you are going to hear from every local station around the country because npr has member stations and everybody in that district is going to call up and say don t defund public radio. it s as if public radio would disappear if it wasn t for public funding. i don t know that it would disappear so the question is though, how do you respond when you start to get that pressure from npr constituencies? well, i think you respond by looking at what the constitution says, juan. where is it in the constitution that says the federal government is supposed to be funding competition for private networks with a public television or public radio in any way? you know, it would be different if we had the luxury of not having trillion-dollar deficits. but, you know, the real factor is is one of the reasons ou
federal government, that has $13.6 trillion worth of debt ought to continue to spend half a billion dollars a year on government subsidized medias? juan: what you are going to hear, i can anticipate this for you, senator, you are going to hear from every local station around the country because npr has member stations and everybody in that district is going to call up and say don t defund public radio. it s as if public radio would disappear if it wasn t for public funding. i don t know that it would disappear so the question is though, how do you respond when you start to get that pressure from npr constituencies? well, i think you respond by looking at what the constitution says, juan. where is it in the constitution that says the federal government is supposed to be funding competition for private networks with a public television or public radio in any way? you know, it would be different if we had the luxury of not having trillion-dollar deficits. but, you know, the real facto