Budget proposal to eliminate federal library funding.

[Cattledog]

http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/03/president-s-budget-proposal-eliminate-federal-library-funding

"The President's proposal to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in his FY2018 budget just released, and with it effectively all federal funding for libraries of all kinds, is counterproductive and short-sighted. The American Library Association will mobilize its members, Congressional library champions and the millions upon millions of people we serve in every zip code to keep those ill-advised proposed cuts from becoming a Congressional reality. Libraries leverage the tiny amount of federal funds they receive through their states into an incredible range of services for virtually all Americans everywhere to produce what could well be the highest economic and social "ROI" in the entire federal budget.

“The Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funded through IMLS is the primary annual source of funding for libraries in the federal budget. IMLS distributes the majority of LSTA funds to every state in the nation according to a population-based formula. Each state library determines how to best spend its allocated federal funds, which must be matched at the state level. The range of services provided to millions of Americans through LSTA grants is matched only by the creativity of the libraries that receive them: veterans transitioning to civilian life, small businesses seeking to expand their business online, summer reading programs, resources for blind and hearing-impaired patrons, resume writing and job skills workshops and computer coding courses to teach youth 21st century job skills.

"America's more than 120,000 public, school, college and university and many other libraries are not piles of archived books. They're trusted centers for education, employment, entrepreneurship and free inquiry at the core of communities in every state in the country – and in every Congressional district. And they’re staffed by the original search engines: skilled and engaged librarians."

[Cha]

1. Quest.. The dumbing down of America to trump's level..

Keep 'em uneducated and starving.

[Solly Mack]

2. We all talk bigly soon. We all think tremendous thinking soon.

It'll be yuge.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Site to find a March For Science near you, Earth Day April 22

https://www.marchforscience.com/

Here are the satellite marches as of March 16th:

[mfcorey1]

4. Heir Trump's master plan: Eliminate access to information.

[DeminPennswoods]

5. A local librarian

I know is a big Trump fan. I wonder how that will work out now?

[Freedomofspeech]

11. Shame on her. I am a retired librarian and my librarian friends are all liberals.

She is a dumbass.

[KingCharlemagne]

13. I hope he o she loses his or her job. Because he who laughs last . . . - nt

[Cooley Hurd]

6. The plunge into Idiocracy continues...

When I was a kid, my very favorite thing to do was to walk to the library and spend the majority of my Saturday there, in a little alcove reading about people I'd admired, places I dreamed to go and things I hoped to achieve in my life.

It is heartbreaking that children today, with that same thirst for knowledge, might not have that same opportunity.

[Sherman A1]

7. Charming

simply charming.....

[Vinca]

8. Let me guess. If he gave up one Mar-a-Lago trip it could be funded.

[bekkilyn]

9. Figured it was only a matter of time before they went after libraries (nt)

[Progressive dog]

10. That orange psychopath could save

the Federal budget almost as much ($150 million/year for libraries-$90 million/year for Florida golf), just by cutting out his golfing holidays. His proposed $54 billion increase in defense spending would pay for that library funding for the next 300 years with money to spare.
I think that ignorant psychopathic life form just wants to get rid of as much knowledge as he can to spite those who don't praise him.

[Freedomofspeech]

12. I guarantee that Shitler has never been in a library.

I 'm sure he paid someone to do all of his work in college. He is such a piece of shit.

[shraby]

14. The republican version of book burning.

[classykaren]

15. This guy has got to go.