PBS, NEA, AmeriCorps on the chopping block in Trump’s first budget

Hotair ^ | 02/18/2017 | John Sexton

[onyx]

Right.
Defund ALL.

[Berosus]

A talk show host in my home town refers to NPR as National Panhandler Radio.

[Newbomb Turk]

Yes and NPR is already hurting. In my state they are constantly begging for funding. Used to once or twice year. Now its monthly if not more.

I've yet to hear one positive piece on Trump. They are totally in for the oposition so we need to cut them off the public dole. Let the Democratic national fund them.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

YAY!

[UnwashedPeasant]

"Ideally, funding NPR should be an option on tax returns."

Do you mean NRA?

[hal ogen]

Hahahaaaa. I’m not tired of winning!

[UnwashedPeasant]

"Defund the Left!"

Yes! Washington is a giant money-laundering operation to fund the Left.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"A talk show host in my home town refers to NPR as National Panhandler Radio."

Also called "National Palestinian Radio" because of all the anti-Semitic propaganda.

[TontoKowalski]

I was on the road the other week, and I was in a black hole of talk/news radio. Couldn't pick up anything.

I finally managed to get NPR, and I was appalled that crap was actually taxpayer funded.

It's mindless babbling of liberal talking points.

One interview was about how Iran wasn't really that bad.

[Sparticus]

They need to quit calling social security an entitlement as though it is welfare. It isn’t.

Where do these silly ideas about about Social Security come from? It's never ever been a pension program. It's always been and was designed as an old age welfare program. The money you paid in over the years was never earmarked for your benefit, it went to pay the old age welfare payments your parents received. There never was an account with your name on it... It's always been a transfer payment from the young to the old.

[Sparticus]

They need to quit calling social security an entitlement as though it is welfare. It isn’t.

Where do these silly ideas about about Social Security come from? It's never ever been a pension program. It's always been and was designed as an old age welfare program. The money you paid in over the years was never earmarked for your benefit, it went to pay the old age welfare payments your parents received. There never was an account with your name on it... It's always been a transfer payment from the young to the old.

[Robert357]

Great. However, let the Dem's offer something Republicans want in exchange for some of this fluff. Set up a deal, like maybe cooperation on 3 Supreme court justices and a bunch of unopposed judicial appointments. The Art of the Deal.

[taxesareforever]

Bout time.

[SauronOfMordor]

Before touching SS let’s get rid of ALL means-tested federal programs like TANF, section 8, etc. The various means-tested programs are scattered and hidden among multiple budgets (for example, food stamps in Sept of agriculture). First, let’s consolidate them all into one dept so it’s easier for people to see it all, then cut them.

First measure: vigorous elimination of illegal aliens from welfare.

[okie 54]

Maybe just maybe these entities should have concentrated on what they were intended to be and left politics alone.

[Jimmy Valentine]

If all of the welfare cheats were weeded out of Social Security and Medicare people would be surprised at the savings I suggest.

[anton]

Its really liberal hate speech. They encourage the most far left spokespersons unchallenged assertions of leftist demagoguery.

[Ann Archy]

GREAT start!! The libs and all women will go CRAZY!!

[poconopundit]

Virtuous ripples will extend throughout society... Good point. And they are FAKE MEDIA we can control by simply turning off the spigot.

[Joe Boucher]

So very tired of having to pay for PBS liberal agenda push.
About every 7th segment is support for the homosexual agenda.
Pull the federal slush funding, if they can make it on their own, fine. If not, let PBS sink.