Trump Budget Proposes Killing All Funding for PBS, NPR and National Endowment for the Arts

I've been hoping for and predicting this day and it's finally here. So glad I voted for Trump!

"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 relatively small source of funding for programming and broadcast operations on public TV stations and NPR radio stations nationwide,"

http://www.thewrap.com/trump-budget...-national-endowment-arts-public-broadcasting/

 

That'll save nearly eleven Mar-a-Lago Weekend-Months for the country!

 

Its about damn time.

PBS and NPR will survive because they are entirely capable of sustaining themselves.

NEA can go die in a fire because it serves no purpose than to pay radical liberal hipsters to smear fecal matter on a canvas and then make moonbat statements about "capitalism".

That's not hyperbole, that's literally what the NEA does.

Its nothing more than welfare for elitist snobs and the quality of hyper-partisan trigger hysterical "art" it produces makes America the laughing stock of international cultural stage.

 

It will save the agony of my tax dollars going to support leftist propoganda.

 

A good start.

 

Instead, your money can go to Trump playing golf at a 5 star resort when he complained about Obama playing golf!

 

It won't matter, Trump's budget plan is DOA in Congress. Interesting in that continued federal funding of PBS is a real bipartisan issue both Democrat and Republican voters agree with.

 

Plus, further padding of the bloated military budget, the wall, and tax cuts for the wealthy.

On the chopping block: Health care, arts and humanities, science, the UN, the environment, clean energy, foreign aid (except to Israel), planned parenthood, public broadcasting, public education ...

This is an anti-social budget. Everything that advances humanity will be cut, except for more funds for killing people.

 

Trump kills Obama on the golf course and the political arena.

 

I'd rather it be burned in a camp fire than go to NPR and PBS

 

It's an end to Gazi (global socialist) propagandist being funded by US. Way over due. The only people who are into it are establishment worshipers wanting to know what the establishment wants them to think.

 

Where did you hear that? NPR told you I bet.

 

Military needs it.

Another anyone and everyone should be able to come and go from America unchecked and unregulated leftist. No more slave trade to exploit? The Republicans taking your slaves away again?

If you give a tax cut, it should go to the people paying taxes.

Another liberal that likes spending 20 bucks on a band-aid. Part of fundamentally transforming America is bankrupting it first.

All Gazi (global socialist) propaganda funded by our government. Long over due.

Like global warming grants handed out to political hacks? 2013 called, wants to know if the icecaps have melted yet.

Gazi HQ. I can tell why that makes you sad. How are you gunna punish Israel/Jews for all that's wrong with Earth without them?

The sky is falling!!!

You mean like Solyindra? No more huge give aways to cronies.

You know what makes America great? Giving the Palestinians 221 mil on your last day in office.

More minorities having babies, I see why that bums a Gazi out.

Nothing but Gazi propaganda

A huge FAIL. Time to get government out of education.

I think it's AWESOME! 0 tears shed here.

 

Deleted, will re-post.

 

Why do you hate art so much? It is obvious you don't understand it... but why hate it?

And don't waste my time by claiming that artists should support themselves... that isn't the way it goes. Art is important to a civilization and to culture. I do not like or understand every piece of art I see, but I appreciate the value of art. What a shame the Right does not.

 

While PBS did mention it in their statement they specifically pointed out it was polling done by a pollster many on the right seem to like, Rasmussen. PBS is popular and the majority would not be in favor of eliminating funding entirely.

http://www.pbs.org/about/blogs/news/federal-funding-statement/

 

Very good... I've never seen a post with so much wrong in it, covering nearly all topics and very succinctly. Well done. The most condensed snark I've encountered.


Obviously you share Trump's attitude that the govt should do nothing but enable capitalists and bomb people. Following those policies will push this country firmly into the 2nd world, where we already have one foot standing, thanks to 35 years of Reaganomics.

News flash: modern govts do a lot of things besides build armies. The difference between Europe now and Europe in the 18th century is that the societies give a damn about the poor, the states are concerned with public welfare, and this is all good and yields good results.

Conservatives in the U$A pretend that all govt efforts fail, but this is demonstrably untrue. Is Meals on Wheels a failure? Trump is cutting all its federal funding.

And really, I could give you a long list of things the govt does which are good. But y'all seldom listen. I'll leave you with one question: Do you think the Interstate Highway System should be privatized?

 

As I suspected, it was PBS itself that told you us on the right want it funded.More fake leftist news from this propoganda central outfit.

 

Pfff, "dont understand it" ...kindly step down from your lectern.

And don't try to sell me on elitist welfare, these people could support themselves if what they were making was any good.

Don't believe me?

Places like YouTube, Twitch-Create, maker spaces, Patreon, and others are allowing millions of people to use their creativity to generate income.

They key is, like I said, what they create actually has to be good.

The NEA is subsidizing art that nobody likes.

Tough **** for those people.

Their solution is clear: GET GOOD.

 

How do you make the leap in logic that wanting to cut federal government spending on art means one hates art?

Hyperbole the best you got?

OK can I PM my address to you and you can start sending me $100 a month?

 

They can raise the money lost through advertising like the rest of the media does. If they are so popular they should have no problem doing so.

 

You know that's a good question. Our interstates are in deplorable condition with unsafe bridges and crumbling pavement. I would be interested to see what sections of interstate upkeep would go for in a competitive bidding process vs what they have been costing to "maintain" in tax dollars.

 

There's no reason why taxpayers should be funding what has become a propaganda bullhorn for the Left and the Democratic Party, and as you correctly pointed out, NPR and PBS are capable of sustaining themselves.

As for the NEA and the Arts, there has always been a market for good art and there always will be. The Arts and artists don't need the NEA to survive.

 

Thanks for proving me right. Y'all do not understand art at all. Many famous and excellent genius artists lived in poverty. You don't get how it works. Being an artist is a dubious proposition economically. Same for musicians. I think it was Schubert, a great composer, who had great difficulty making ends meet. An NEA grant would have made his life more secure and he'd probably have produced even more great music.

What art is making it economically, that "people like". It has to be mainstream crap to succeed economically in this society. You demand that art be made into a popularity contest. If it's "good", then people will buy it? LOL... which people?

Yes, I have a lectern. I'm a teacher. I have a minor in art history. Of course your anti-intellectualism makes you resent that. You don't want to hear intellectual discourse, and you want artists crapping online for attention, lol.

Thanks for confirming my opinion that conservatives are utterly irrational.

 

Their condition is due to GOP Congressional failure to fund repairs! If a private system weren't kept up, it would deteriorate just the same.

This Reaganomics belief that any company can do things better than the govt is demonstrably false.

Eisenhower had the IHS built without running up debt. It was brilliant politics. But then Eisenhower was from a time when the GOP wasn't entirely stark raving mad.