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Originally Posted by Snakeeye
Allow me to reiterate, since you are jumping all over the place:
1. Government should be in the buisness of providing only essential public services.
2. A television network is not an essential public service.
3. The military is.
Strawman, and a weak one at that.
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This is where we disagree, because I think television and radio is essential in a country as expansive as ours. It connects people in remote areas to what is going in the world outside theirs. It allows them to be part of it. And if there ever was a national emergency, the airwaves could be vital.
It wasn't a straw man argument. It was just a comparison. And while the military is a vital service, not everything they do is vital. A lot of money gets wasted through the military.