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

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My wife is a professional artist and has no problem with this. She worked her ass off to not be a starving artist on the government tit. She produces something people want. She keeps several sub-contractor vendors employed. She adapted her work to meet market needs. We know starving artist who are unable to adapt to survive, they're also stoned half the time.
 
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Sesame street generates how much money in toys, clothes and other things. Let them fund PBS if it's so goddam critical.

Left leaning TV/radio needs to be subsidized because the market for that crap is so small. That doesn't mean it should be. Oh, I can't wait to hear the howls of righteous indignation over this.
 
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All 3 are political propaganda arms of the Democratic party. They collect big dollars from the government then fund campaigns for their candidates. Flip them the big bird and be done with them.
 
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Trump may have given NPR & PBS the greatest fund raising tool they've ever had. The hard core libs with money are going to get hit hard and dig deep in response.
 
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kev74 said:
Trump may have given NPR & PBS the greatest fund raising tool they've ever had. The hard core libs with money are going to get hit hard and dig deep in response.
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That will help reduce the budget deficit and put the financial burden of the left's theoretical unbiased reporting back upon the left. That's called justice (as well as reducing the deficit).
 
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Have ever read some of those art grants?

We all know of the crucifix in urine years ago, or christian symbols made of elephant dung, so many of those tax-payer grants go for totally degenerate garbage. I am not a bible-head, but it offends me.

Trump should not stop there, CUT ALL "grants" do we need shrimp on a treadmill???? Too many of these grants only go to well-connected universities, well connected not-for-profits, state and local government workers who only provide "information" to people, the whole grant system reeks of one big scam, 80% should be eliminated.
 
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100% should be eliminated, unless you can show me the phrase "Provide for the arts, humanities, and piss-in-a-jar" as a delegated power in Article I.

Hint: It ain't there. It's unlawful on its face. And it's time we ALL stop tolerating this shit.
 
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Carlos Hathcock said:
Where will I hear my monotone reports on the state of affairs of the sewing machine repair industry in the sub Saharan desert.
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It's not all bad,

Without Antiques Roadshow, I'd never have known that my great grandfather's antique testicle shaver was worth between 6 and 7 million GBP.
 
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I dont care about pbs, npr cuts. the world wont end.

But alot of his cuts are gonna cause real trouble.
Meals on wheels cuts for example. its the only thing keeping some people at home and not in a home. i have 2 old guys around me who depend on it. wives died, family out of state and never around. both worked entire life and want to live out lifes at home.

I am no fan of the career welfare citizens.

But alot of these cuts are gonna hurt working people who cant make it on the low paying jobs that make up this country
 
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bobbyd3 said:
I dont care about pbs, npr cuts. the world wont end.

But alot of his cuts are gonna cause real trouble.
Meals on wheels cuts for example. its the only thing keeping some people at home and not in a home. i have 2 old guys around me who depend on it. wives died, family out of state and never around. both worked entire life and want to live out lifes at home.

I am no fan of the career welfare citizens.

But alot of these cuts are gonna hurt working people who cant make it on the low paying jobs that make up this country
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Privatize it.

I'll decide who gets my hard earned money. Not the government.

You show me a couple of down and outs? I'll be happy to help.

"Trust the government" to give to the down and outs? :ROFL:
 
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The elimination of the federal CDBG program would reduce local funding for a number of programs, including Meals on Wheels, but the overall impact on the program is uncertain. According to the Meals on Wheels 2015 annual report, the majority of the national office’s funding (about 84%) comes from individual contributions, while only 3% comes from federal grants such as the CDBG program provides:

Did President Trump Announce Plans to End the 'Meals on Wheels' Program?
 
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Grimscale said:
It is interesting that everyone is happy to have these programs defunded, yet no mention of the farming subsidies, big oil subsidies, continued tax exempt status for churches, etc.
why aren't these groups having to pay their way?
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They should. Maybe DJT will get there.
 
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I'm probably in the minority here, but the proposed $54 billion increase in the defense budget pisses me off. We don't need an increase if we stop backing proxy wars like Syria and Yemen. One of my biggest wishes is that our economy get strong enough that we can tell Saudi Arabia to fuck off and not care if they don't sell their oil in USD. Yeah, I know; never gonna happen.
 
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swilliams said:
I'm probably in the minority here, but the proposed $54 billion increase in the defense budget pisses me off. We don't need an increase if we stop backing proxy wars like Syria and Yemen. One of my biggest wishes is that our economy get strong enough that we can tell Saudi Arabia to fuck off and not care if they don't sell their oil in USD. Yeah, I know; never gonna happen.
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Nope. The absurd military spending increase pisses me off too.

Just waiting for Trump to drop the anti gun bomb, then I can say "I told you so", and go crawl back in the corner. :D
 
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I don't like the idea that we must increase defense spending, but the world is becoming an increasingly, more and more dangerous place where deterrence may be all that keeps things below an all out war.
Robin
 
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