WTF! dRUMP is ending the funding for PBS, NPR and the NEA

[Union Label]

Oh how I fucking hate that orange asshole! The link is the Independent but it quotes what I think is some xian rag.



The Hill, whose source is an unnamed member of Trump’s transition team, reported that Trump will eliminate both the National Endowment For The Arts and the National Endowment For The Humanities, and privatise the Corporation For Public Broadcasting.

The latter partially funds National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), currently receiving $445.5 million a year from the government, around half of which goes to the US’ approx. 350 public television stations. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/donald-trump-budget-cuts-arts-humanities-nea-neh-npr-cbs-president-a7536741.html

[Takket]

1. a stupid electorate is easy to control and votes GOP. No surprise.

Sesame Street has been getting kids off on the right foot for generations. No wonder they want it gone.

[Union Label]

4. I guess if its not fake news

we won't being seeing it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

47. Oh it's real enough

Seen this posted elsewhere.

[SCantiGOP]

58. Real, just misleading

Congress controls the budget. President does not have the authority to do this.
He can, however make it very difficult for any agency to spend its allocation.

[brush]

24. Thought trump was gonna save jobs? How many will be out of work because of these moves?

Out of control a-holes drunk with power, intent on gutting everything they think they can then privatize.

[CincyDem]

57. Liberal media jobs - that's not real work, those jobs don't count. n/t

[retrowire]

2. Amazing. nt

[TrekLuver]

3. Let him keep doing this shit and I bet some Republicans enjoy PBS...he will alienate all his main

stream supporters one by one.

[UTUSN]

5. The KOCH brothers are sponsors of some programs. n/t

[physioex]

8. But seriously....

Most of them are busy Faux News and Duck Dynasty.

[TrekLuver]

10. Yes but I'm sure some do enjoy a PBS program on occasion, so when PBS is hawking for funds

I'm sure they'll mention the dire need for support since they lost federal funding. And why did they lose fed funding...because of the asshole they voted for.

[JCanete]

42. but they probably believe its just fine that the govment got out of the business of funding it and

that it should all be private funding, because they don't believe in conflicts of interest, as in that they exist.

[TrekLuver]

44. I agree that that is the Republican way....but I still think some of them won't like it.

[lpbk2713]

6. He doesn't want an educated and informed electorate.

He would rather have everyone dumber than himself.

If that's possible.

[JudyM]

27. None of them do. The want people to do what their conservative preachers say.

[BlueCaliDem]

31. Dictators never do. eom

[Ron Green]

7. PBS and NPR have been bought for years. They gave Trump

many hours of name-recognition PR.

The NEA, on the other hand, now that's a tragedy.

[JCanete]

43. certainly infiltrated. They've had some good stuff in-spite of that...but hell, maybe if they're

going to be a little compromised, we might as well let them be one more entirely corporate mouthpiece. At least there won't be any pretense to hide behind.

[BainsBane]

9. I wonder about NEH

I bet that's on his hit list too.

[Union Label]

12. It looks to be included to get the hatchet

I should have put that in the title.

[bdamomma]

13. any programme

for the good of the people will be gone. I am glad Gwen Ifill is not here for this shit.

[Arkansas Granny]

16. I really miss her.

[beachbum bob]

11. Federal minimum wage will be gone.. Prevailing wage act be gone...

Not voting or voting 3rd party because you can't vote for the lesser of 2 evils allows real evil to happen..

[saidsimplesimon]

14. So, what do we do?

Fund PBS, NPR and the NEA with our donations. easy peasy. We don't need fake donations that buy the rumps artwork in their office, never have, never will.

[Squinch]

18. I just got finished setting up my monthly Planned Parenthood donation. Now I have to do the

ACLU and PBS. This is costing me a lot.

[saidsimplesimon]

23. Thank you Squinch,

give what you can as you can, no more, no less. We are counting on US, not you, nor any individual sacrifice in this fight to restore that which has been attacked.

[Squinch]

33. Yes, but we all HAVE to do what we can do.

I'd rather put off the new dishwasher for a while than see people dying for lack of medical availability.

[saidsimplesimon]

39. Thank you Squinch

I still wash my dishes in the sink. It's not a sacrifice, it is an honor.

[Squinch]

41. .

It's not my favorite thing to do!

But I get paid every 2 weeks, so I only have to wait till that next "3 paycheck month" and they come around twice a year.

[marybourg]

45. I've decided to postpone any spending

that's not absolutely necessary for health or safety. I'm on strike!

[Squinch]

48. There is a feeling of needing to pull in tight and keep resources safe.

[marybourg]

49. Yes, as well as not wanting to fuel a

Trump bubble.

[marybourg]

51. Plus - that gives me more freedom

to donate to progressive causes.

[Squinch]

53. Exactly. My needs are met. These causes are where I want it to go.

[ismnotwasm]

15. It's the Heritage Foundation plan

And they have enough votes to do it. This is why the next four years are going to suck and why we must fight back every opportunity

[JHan]

17. Republicans have wanted to do this a long time.

They're philistines.

[mrgorth]

19. How the fuck

are any of you surprised by this? This is what we knew was coming.

[Union Label]

20. Surprised? No but pissed off oh hell yes!

I need to self medicate for a while, I need some wine.

[kimbutgar]

21. Looks like we will all have to have congress critter numbers on speed dial

[bdamomma]

40. I have mine on my contact list on my cell

what about this crap about McCain and Graham voting in favour for Tillerson that warrants a call. Should it go to our own State Senators or to Mc Cain and Graham?

[MountCleaners]

22. This is political

That's it's economically motivated is b.s., especially if it's coming from President ThinSkin. As for his new best friends, the Heritage Foundation, they called these agencies "welfare for the elites". They want to cut them off because of politics, not to save money.

[JI7]

25. Steve Bannon

[Warpy]

26. Well, rich men don't need any of those things

This asshole is a plutocrat on steroids.

Yeah, we'll get rid of him at some point, but his evil will live on and on, like Nixon's drug war has.

[Sunny05]

28. k&r PLUS call senators & rep / nt

[liberal N proud]

29. The oligarchs want art to be reserved for the elite

And for PBS & NPR there is profit to be made for someone with the programming.


GREED is consuming this country again!

[IcyPeas]

30. Dowager Countess of Grantham is shocked.

[lindysalsagal]

32. Only corporate ceo's can control the media. His friends.

So, public ones must go.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

34. Well, there's always bowling...

[procon]

35. The dystopian gulag Trump described in his inauguration speech is nearly complete.

With no education, no healthcare, and no safety nets or social assistance programs, a weary and frightened populus will be too busy trying to find food and shelter to worry about the arts.

[Amimnoch]

36. Wait until I tell my Grandmother that he's taking Lawerence Welk away from her.

She might finally come to her senses.

[Vinca]

37. PBS gave us "Downton Abbey." The masses will not be pleased.

[Yossarian22]

64. Except...

ITV Studios (that's in England) actually produced the show. PBS just rebroadcast it in the U.S.

[Vinca]

65. I know that, but I doubt they gave it to PBS to run for free.

[cbdo2007]

38. How many jobs will this cost us? Those are all on you Mr. Trump.

[secondwind]

46. They are wanting to privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting..what a disgrace

[smirkymonkey]

50. Fucking bastard!

How dare he!

[LunaSea]

52. Resist being winded up over a rumor from an unnamed source.

It's their favorite game.

[marybourg]

54. Yeah. Only the Publicans are allowed

to spread false rumors among the people in order to cause hatred and disgust for the other side!

[DeminPennswoods]

55. WH doesn't appropriate money

Congress does that. I'm sure a proposed budget will include this agenda item, but whether it actually happens is anyone's guess.

PBS/NPR have been under attack for years so they've been weaning themselves off federal money for awhile now.

[Hoyt]

56. That would suck. Of course last summer people right here were telling us NPR/PBS were right wing.

From listening/watching both, that has not been my experience. But I read it many times.

[TygrBright]

59. Did anyone expect otherwise? Seriously?? n/t

[GoCubsGo]

60. The only thing that surprises me here is that he waited 2 days to do it. n/t

[Bleacher Creature]

61. $445.5 million annually. That's like half of one F-35.

And infinitely more valuable.

[Skittles]

62. surely that does not surprise you

that money does not assist rich white assholes

[FreeStateDemocrat]

63. Low-life in chief!

[MountCleaners]

66. The NEA is "welfare for the cultural elite"

Reason #2: The NEA Is Welfare for Cultural Elitists

Despite Endowment claims that federal funding permits underpriviledged individuals to gain access to the arts, NEA grants offer little more than a subsidy to the well-to-do. One-fifth of direct NEA grants go to multimillion-dollar arts organizations.11 Harvard University Political Scientist Edward C. Banfield has noted that the "art public is now, as it has always been, overwhelmingly middle and upper middle class and above average in income-relatively prosperous people who would probably enjoy art about as much in the absence of subsidies."12 The poor and the middle class, thus, benefit less from public art subsidies than does the museum- and orchestra-going upper-middle class. Sawers argues that "those who finance the subsidies through taxes are likely to be different from and poorer than those who benefit from the subsidies."13 In fact, the $99.5 million that funds the NEA also represents the entire annual tax burden for over 436,000 working-class American families.

So says the Heritage Foundation.

In other words, it's political.

[kskiska]

67. This affects a lot of other businesses

My son works for a print shop that does a lot of print jobs for local cultural entities involving the arts. They'll lose business.