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 substantial source of funding for programming and broadcast operations on public TV stations and NPR radio stations nationwide, per the Washington Post.
The budget would also eliminate the budgets for both national endowments, which stood at $148 million each in 2016, as well as $230 million for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which supports libraries and museums. Additional cuts would affect two tourist mainstays in Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art.
Combined, the four arts organizations account for less than 0.02 percent of the U.S. government’s $4.6 trillion budget.
Ironically if they were to survive, this sudden withdrawal of free resources might have made them more conservative. On a more practical note, this should eliminate two sources of criticism of the President and his policies. Trump, being aware of how people are influenced, probably realizes this will close the Overton window ever so slightly on the left, moving the nation as a whole rightward. Why we were ever paying for their uber-leftist claptrap is beyond me.
Trump was right. The amount of winning is so great that lesser men than conservatives could actually get tired of it. Not us however. We want still more – and it appears we are going to get it.
Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because they won’t be hearing about it on NPR or PBS
[…] Buh Bye NPR And PBS […]
I listen to NPR a lot, but they had it coming – they were /so/ in the tank against Trump, thinking they were safe. F* ’em!
NEA – created in 1965, by LBJ. Two days later he signed the Immigration and Nationality act of 1965. It is incredible how much the USA changed within 50 years of “Great Society” cultural engineering. This started happening as the USSR ranged the US with ever increasing numbers of ICBMs. LBJ, ever the r strategist, was acquiescing to communist threat- ever seen the 1964 Presidential race ads against Goldwater? LBJ thought them up himself, very revealing to his psychology. That’s why limp-wrist panzies should never run countries.
LBJ- textbook narcissist
http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/08/20/lyndon-johnson-held-meetings-on-the-toilet/
They are so screwed in the head.
And this action will not sink the local classical music station, KMFA. They are not dependent on government subsidies, the majority of their funding comes from people and companies in the community.
KUT, the local NPR affiliate, on the other hand, is welcome to shut their doors, but I doubt the University of Texas will allow that to happen.
. Why we were ever paying for their uber-leftist claptrap is beyond me.
Government services must benefit if not all the people, the vast majority of them. When government speaks, it speaks with the authority of the people. Taking these two assertions and premises, we can reason that having leftist thought spouted from the authoritative voice of government causes us on the right great harm. That we allowed that abuse of power to go on for so kong was an indicator to everyone that we were weak and did not really believe in our own convictions.
Good on Trump.
I think it would have been much better if NPR was split up and 50% of their airtime was handed over to the alt-right. The right gaining access to the not for profit public airwaves would be death of multiculturalism, mass immigration, feminism, and the myth of the noble minority.
Who cares what the left says anyway? NPR was just the not for profit version of AirAmerica / MSNBC which are always at the back of the pack ratings wise. Yes, NPR nonstop advocacy for the left was nauseating but that is why no one else listens to it either.