Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:21:37 -0700
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To: mafifi@opal.tufts.edu, pinhole@exploratorium.edu, bobafifi@pacbell.net,
From: mafifi@redshift.com (Marc Afifi)
Subject: Petition
Sorry to take up so much time, but this petition seemed important enough to
share. If you've already seen it, ignore it.
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Please keep this petition rolling. Please sign and
forward to others to sign. This petition is being passed around the
internet. Please add your name to it so that funding can be
maintained for the NEA, NPR & PBS.
It won't matter if many people receive the same list as
the names are being managed. This is for anyone who thinks NPR/PBS is
a worthwhile expenditure of $1.12/year of their taxes.
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 not worthwhile. 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.
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 subcommittees 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 theUnited 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.
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.
NOTE: It is preferable that you SELECT the entirety of this letter
and then COPY it into a new outgoing message rather than simply
forwarding it.
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