Big Bird and PBS

Big Bird could be the only thing preventing WWIII

It would be a travesty if PBS and Sesame Street were eliminated.  There's a lot more to Sesame Street than I ever suspected, and I learned most of it from "The American School" by Joel Spring.  As the title might suggest, it is a textbook on American schools; it starts in pre-colonial times and covers through the current era.  It is massive, comprehensive, and dry.  Toward the end I learned that Sesame Street was developed to help students learn some basics for entering school.  Too many children came to kindergarden or first grade not knowing their numbers or ABCs, so by presenting it in a fun way on public television lots of kids learned what they needed from Big Bird.

I am obviously in favor of keeping Big Bird and PBS.  The public owns the airwaves, and having PBS is like having public libraries.  Our priorities are crazy; the amount of money cut would be a minuscule sliver of the entire operating budget of our government.  The next graphic says it well, and I think I've seen a similar one with Big Bird vs war spending:

Big Bird vs Fossil Fuels