Big Bird's Sesame Street spokesperson had a comment:
Posted on 03/16/2017 5:16:56 AM PDT by Enlightened1
President Donald Trump made good on a long-time conservative goal in his first proposed budget Thursday morning, targeting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities for complete elimination.
Trump’s budget would zero out the $445 million budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a substantial source of funding for programming and broadcast operations on public TV stations and NPR radio stations nationwide, per the Washington Post.
The budget would also eliminate the budgets for both national endowments, which stood at $148 million each in 2016, as well as $230 million for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which supports libraries and museums. Additional cuts would affect two tourist mainstays in Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art.
Combined, the four arts organizations account for less than 0.02 percent of the U.S. government’s $4.6 trillion budget.
Republicans have long put the NEA and the CPB in their budget crosshairs. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan attempted to shut down the NEA, but backed down from the plans after a task force including actor and Reagan friend Charlton Heston advised against it. Reagan did, however, make major cuts to the NEA’s budget.
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Hooray! About time.
Big Bird's Sesame Street spokesperson had a comment:
YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I have waited nearly a lifetime for this. All of the Godless, liberal, pro-evil garbage they have put out over the air finally caught up with them.
When you’re 20 trillion in debt you don’t pay for frills.
If you’re in danger of bankruptcy, you don’t charge a family vacation to Disney.
Hmmm... Sounds like a conversation I had with a Commercial Banker and his disdain for Credit Unions via their tax exempt status.... Great post LadyJane!
I always love the talking point of “it’s only 0.02 percent of the federal budget.” Well, great. That’s 0.02 percent the taxpayers just saved.
And the liberals can still have these things, they just have to raise full funding for them. And if they do that, they should be able to raise any point they want to make without conservatives complaining that their tax dollars are being abused.
It’s a win-win.
Congress rarely (if ever) enacts a president’s budget. Usually they cobble together one of their own — if they even produce a budget in a given year. Members of both houses are all about feathering their own nests above all else, and the taxpayers be damned. So each individual will vote for or against such measures depending on who shovels the most cash and other goodies at them.
You got it!
I’ve often imagined that the one reading ‘All Things Considered’ (except opposing views) must sit there with her nose high up in the air, like some kind of Gorbull warming CO2 detector, as she reads the script.
LOL!
Sounds great.
But, it won’t happen. Congressional Republicans lack the will and the stones. They worry about the blowback and their reelection chances.
(It’s for the chillllldren, ya know.)
He said PBS stations ALL had the newest, latest most up to date equipment and technology.
Commercial studios were chock full of old, outdated, patched up and duct-taped stuff. They MADE DO and couldn't compare to the PBS stations.
Damn, where's the warning on that post......wasn't planning on snorting my coffee out my nose and choking on it at the same time. Hurts like hell, and it wasn't the kind of multitasking I thought I'd be doing this morning
....but I'm gonna be laughing my azz off all day long!
No.
We taxpayers have invested many millions of dollars into NPR and PBS. Instead of merely having their funding stopped, their assets should be liquidated and the proceeds returned to the US treasury.
These organizations can get along without the financial advantages we taxpayers have given them.
until a judge blocks to stop him...
“Trump Budget Proposes Killing All Funding for PBS, NPR and National Endowment for the Arts”
It would leave them “Alone In The Wilderness”...How mean is that?
So true. Every decision Trump made can be blocked by some weed toking Marxist judge somewhere. In this case Congress Rinos are sharing the weed.
Check out the NPR’s Facebook page. They are all bent out of shape over this budget. I love it!
“Women, children & minorities hurt most.”
Most of whom dont even watch PBS, nor listen to NPR, or go to an art museum.
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