Posted on 01/23/2017 8:33:45 AM PST by Perseverando
President Donald Trumps reported plan to gut federal spending by $10.5 trillion over the next decade includes eliminating three of iconic agencies defended as cultural mainstays by many Democrats.
The next administration is working on plans to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Hill reported Thursday.
Combined, the three departments cost around $741 million in 2016, and is a small part of a host of budget reforms needed to cut more than a trillion a year from the federal budget.
Eliminating funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which runs PBS and supports shows like Sesame Street, is not a new idea. Mitt Romney suggested cutting the CPB during the 2012 presidential campaign, and was quickly criticized. President Barack Obama even accused Romney of trying to kill Big Bird in a campaign ad.
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More......WINNING!
Make it so!
The problem in cutting these budgets is the GOP.
except Sesame street is sold to HBO and not on PBS
Well...he did say he has been a politicians since descending on the golden elevator 18 months ago.
But I always knew he would do as he said, BECAUSE HE HAS NO HOOKS in his azz from his ultra rich donors. He is unique in not needing ultra rich donors.
There are 50 years of reruns for Sesame Street. That oughta do it.
yes!!!
When President Trump first was elected, he opened a suggestion website from the Office of the President-Elect and I jumped on that site and suggested killing the National Endowment for the Arts. I cited an article I wrote for the paper in Tucson concerning a march that was put on by Oprah and a bunch of other millionaires concerning Bush shutting down the NEA. Between that bunch, their daily salary could have funded their own endowment which could have given funding to any art they wanted to. easily.
But they wanted the common taxpayer to fund the NEA, so they could be a part of the arts and have some culture thrust upon them.
Eliminate EPA, BATF, Dept. Of Education..!!
Eliminate the $500 million for the butchers of Planned Parenthood and we are at over a $1.2 Billion in savings already.
Winning.
[With the money sesame street makes from toys and products why are we still giving them government money?]
I wouldn’t be surprised if a big chunk of it pays for ‘special celebrity guests’.
That research is done by taking research money from private corporations and I am sure handled like most Government largess, cents on the dollar ever reaches research.
Very good point. They must make a mint on the toys and videos.
Not. Majority of funding comes from government. Most private corporations do not have the money to perform basic science research, such as discovering better super conductors.
MORE....DEEPER CUTS!!! Good start!!
I would love to see the U.S. Debt Clock come to a standstill and then start backing up. LOL!
Excellent move. The entertainment industry must be in a panic.
They should be closed and the nuclear oversight should be returned to the renamed Department of War.
"Nearly 3/4 of a trillion $ is a small part of a trillion? No wonder Washington can't balance a budget."
I think y'all may have made a small math error. 741 million is 3/4 of a billion not trillion.
I believe that 741 million would be 3/4 of 1/1000 of a trillion.
And why do you think most corporations no longer have the money for research? What did the Government do to earn the money that they spent on research?
Perhaps they earned it like highway men at the point of a gun...
I wonder who they robbed?
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