Television Advertising as many studies
show leave our children open to materialistic consumption. They
become fixated with their need to buy—as like a bleeding person
from a gunshot wound needs a transfusion.
PBS is one of the only commercial-free
networks in America left to allow parents to expose their children to
entertainment that is not inherently socially destructive, laden with
commercial advertising.
As a Christian, I cannot condone the
actions you, Willard
Mitt Romney, present before the Polis—citizens will stand
united in this affront to this fundamental economic necessity. Like
national defense, a public forum or theater, just as the Ancient
Greeks of Athens performed, is a key element in a stable and free
democratic republic.
Calling for its reduction is equivocal
to calling for the elimination of our systems of public education or
for the elimination of our militias. Our founders, my
7th-great-grandfater, Justice James Wilson, would have called you out
for these indiscretions.
I implore you sir, cease at once this
indiscretion and learn a little about the magnitude of ramification
your actions will wreck on us all.
I might suggest you inform yourself on
the economic principles of Coase theory and the problem of
"free-riders" in economics—it might give you the
perspective you need pertaining to "free-riders" and the
necessary place the government has in this market. If you are so keen
on a public military, and not merely a collective of private military
companies who rule our state with an iron will, then I suggest you
also notice the dangers of public media that does not embody the
fundamental principles of nation states.
