Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney repeated his pledge to cut funding for public television during Wednesday’s debate with President Barack Obama.  “I would stop the subsidy to PBS,” Romney told moderator Jim Lehrer. “I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you, too. But I’m not gonna keep on spending money on things to borrow from China to pay for.” Earlier this year, Romney said programs like PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts “should have to stand on their own.” The federal government spent $444 million on subsidizing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which oversees PBS, which constitutes about .037 percent of the nation’s $1.2 trillion deficit.