Posted on 02/18/2017 9:03:19 PM PST by Enlightened1
The White House is considering eliminating funding for arts, public broadcasting and legal services to cut domestic spending, according to the New York Times.
The Times reported late Friday that it obtained an internal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo containing a “hit list” of programs that could be axed.
Reportedly on the list: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Americorps, the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Export-Import Bank, among others.
Cutting the programs listed on the memo would save about $2.5 billion, the Times reported. The Congressional Budget Office projects that the government will spend $4 trillion in 2017.
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Mick Mulvaney to lead OMB in a slim 51-49 votes. Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) joined all Democrats and Independents in opposing him.
The memo was circulating at OMB on Tuesday, before Mulvaney’s confirmation, the Times reported.
OMB plans to finalize the list of programs to be axed by March 13, the report said.
Several programs on the draft list are longtime conservative targets. Then-Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and House Republicans went after funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities in the mid 1990s, drawing major pushback at the time.
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South Dakota Public Radio has what could be called commercials with announcements that various businesses sponsoring particular programs. Other NPR stations seem to have perpetual fundraisers. So why not just sell commercial airtime to support their programming?
As a nation, we pride ourselves on our ability to peacefully transition power, but in some situations I wish we could return to the days of yore, where a treasonous political enemy could be hung, drawn, quartered, and their entrails dispatched to the four directions of the empire and separated for all to observe.
The name “Nita Totenberg” brings such notions to mind.
Sesame Street is now on HBO. HBO runs the new episodes then after 9 months gives them to PBS. Any PBS show worth watching will be picked up by the cable channels, something that should have happened years ago.
The “tease” ended last year with Heritage Foundation’s “Blueprint for Balance” report. You can read the entire thing here: http://thf-reports.s3.amazonaws.com/2016/BlueprintforBalance.pdf
This has been widely reported as the framework for what Trump will present as his budget. It may not follow it down to every jot and tittle but much of it will trace right back to this document. Bookmark it after reading so you can come back to it next month.
I read this from another poster on another site, which, if true, tells us that President Trump had better use every means under his control to go directly to the people with his messages. Here goes.
“There are 1500 newspapers, 1100 magazines, 9000 radio stations, 1500 TV stations, 2400 publishers, all owned by just 6 corporations and 272 executives controlling what people see, hear and read.”
If true, this nation is in dire trouble with the lies and fake analysis being spewed by the majority of these entities each and every day. Their power to do that must be broken. They must not be protected by law to put out to the masses what they want the people to believe whether or not it is true.
Reports that the NEA and the CPB were on the chopping block came out long before the leaks.
During that time, I spent NOTHING for art and entertainment. By necessity, I focused on controlling debt. Well, the US is a debtor nation. It borrows 1 dollar for every five dollars it spends. There is absolutely no reason for the government to not have the same constraints on spending that all of us individuals must follow.
The real money as everyone knows is in the non-discretionary spunding such as WELFARE and ENTITLEMENTS. That includes Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc.. If those don't get touched/reformed (reduced spending overall, not "reductions in the increase in spending") then we can't simply cut enough discretionary budget to get to balance.
Everyone knows this. Since Trump's said he's not going to touch Social Security, I've no idea how he thinks we're going to eliminate the deficit and start paying down the debt. It's going to take another 1994 type of effort to get us there and I just don't see that happening with the "leadership" we have in Congress.
The ONDCP is about putting drug addicts - and non-addicts - in jail.
NO, even with no debt and a balanced budget there is no excuse for state-run media and arts.
All can and do thrive just fine without a state agenda, interference, and favorites in the mix.
Oh - don’t get me wrong - I agree entirely; but this crud is about the *least* damaging thing that the libs can and have done to the country.
If you throw them a few crumbs and let them think they’re actually doing something, it will keep them busy.
But $0.00 should ever be allocated to it if there’s a budget deficit or a national debt.
Essentially, that’s a permanent ban on this foolishness.
No, giving them tax dollars does not “keep them busy”—it just adds to their power, however incrementally.
And it takes away from the power of conservatives in the art—something we very much don’t need to be doing.
And sure, there are much bigger cuts to be got elsewhere.
I wish they would tie massive cuts to the passage in the next month of massive tax cuts. Let all working Americans gain with the clear connection to cutting the size of government.
No, giving them tax dollars does not “keep them busy”—it just adds to their power, however incrementally.
And it takes away from the power of conservatives in the art—something we very much don’t need to be doing.
And sure, there are much bigger cuts to be got elsewhere.
I wish they would tie massive cuts to the passage in the next month of massive tax cuts. Let all working Americans gain with the clear connection to cutting the size of government.
Some dumb arses on facebook were complaining how little tax money would be saved by cutting the arts programs, but the Trump family is costing us millions to fly them around and for golf trips....laughed at their stupidity and failure to remember how much money the obamas burned through!
The ‘arts’ money is a boondoggle for liberal elites... Americans are tired of ‘supporting liberal elite groups... and that includes groups like PBS and NPR.
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