DEBARY-- Big Bird has now become the center of the Obama’s re-election campaign for the simple fact that Obama has nothing else to run on. He was crushingly defeated by Romney in the debate and is now using poor Big Bird as a distraction.
I like Big Bird, too. I watched Sesame Street as a child. But Big Bird is not the issue. He is just a symbol of spending that needs tob e checked and determine the “need to have” and the “nice to have.”
I saw a recent news report that Sesame Street gets 7% of itsfunding from the federal government. That is not a huge percentage so maybe Big Bird can take a pay cut likemany Americans have. If Big Bird is keeping up with the times, most of the rest of us have less money, why not “BigBird.”
Sesame Street is lucky that ithas the merchandising that helps fund it. From what I have read PBS gets over half its funding fromthe government. How many of us watch PBS?
In this age where all television is digitalwho can remember the last time we watched it. Even if PBS went away there areso many channels for Big Bird to “land.” I saw in US News that 445 million goes to PBS from the federal government.
I did some not so scientific research and found that on one website that in 2008, the average taxes paid per pers on was $4,600 and currently from Wikipedia that in 2012, we have 314,555,000 adults in America. 445,000,000 divided by 314,555,000 equals each adult pays $1.41 dollars for PBS.
If you take 445,000,000 divided 4,600 equals 96,739 tax returns. Like I said, this is not scientific, but makes you think how much we are paying for something that is a “nice to have,” but is not a need.
Americans are struggling and the president cannot face the truth that his policies have failed. He could not defend himself from Romney’s attacks because he is an “empty chair.”
I saw the ad today with Big Bird and wonder how many kids Obama is upsetting by making Big Bird a villain. It is wrong to compare a beloved childhood character to Madoff. The adults know better and the ad is comical.
It just shows there is no record to run on so Obama mocks Mitt Romney. Sesame Workshop, the non-profit, non-partisan group behind the television show wants the ad to stop running. Good luck with that because the Obama campaign has found a way to distract Americans from the truth and his name is Big Bird.