Trump Targets 3 Agencies With Ambitious Budget Cuts (No more money for Big Bird, Ernie and Bert)

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: THE DAILY SIGNAL

URL: http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/23/trump-targets-three-agencies-with-ambitious-budget-cuts/

Thomas Pippen


President Donald Trump’s reported plan to gut federal spending by $10.5 trillion over the next decade includes eliminating three of iconic agencies defended as cultural mainstays by many Democrats.

The next administration is working on plans to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Hill reported Thursday.

Combined, the three departments cost around $741 million in 2016, and is a small part of a host of budget reforms needed to cut more than a trillion a year from the federal budget.

Eliminating funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which runs PBS and supports shows like Sesame Street, is not a new idea. Mitt Romney suggested cutting the CPB during the 2012 presidential campaign, and was quickly criticized. President Barack Obama even accused Romney of trying to kill Big Bird in a campaign ad.

Trump’s budget cuts align in many ways with the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) 2017 Blueprint for a Balanced Budget, which only makes $8.6 trillion in cuts.

“A free society should not have government-supported media outlets, especially ones that so often convey political news and opinion,” the RSC report says. “There is no shortage of media outlets and news services available to consumers,” the report said.

“The federal government should not be in the business of funding the arts,” the RSC said of eliminating the NEA and NEH.

[Free Vulcan]

[Night Hides Not]

SOURCE: THE DAILY SIGNAL

URL: http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/23/trump-targets-three-agencies-with-ambitious-budget-cuts/

Thomas Pippen


President Donald Trump’s reported plan to gut federal spending by $10.5 trillion over the next decade includes eliminating three of iconic agencies defended as cultural mainstays by many Democrats.

The next administration is working on plans to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Hill reported Thursday.

Combined, the three departments cost around $741 million in 2016, and is a small part of a host of budget reforms needed to cut more than a trillion a year from the federal budget.

Eliminating funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which runs PBS and supports shows like Sesame Street, is not a new idea. Mitt Romney suggested cutting the CPB during the 2012 presidential campaign, and was quickly criticized. President Barack Obama even accused Romney of trying to kill Big Bird in a campaign ad.

Trump’s budget cuts align in many ways with the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) 2017 Blueprint for a Balanced Budget, which only makes $8.6 trillion in cuts.

“A free society should not have government-supported media outlets, especially ones that so often convey political news and opinion,” the RSC report says. “There is no shortage of media outlets and news services available to consumers,” the report said.

“The federal government should not be in the business of funding the arts,” the RSC said of eliminating the NEA and NEH.

Romney campaign should've responded with an ad saying Big Bird is stealing from the American people.

[INVAR]

Ditto that!

It will be hilarious to listen to the heads explode on the Left and Hollywierd over this.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Good news. Let's hope they can make it stick.

[INVAR]

What I will be interested in learning, is whether or not those Endowments are funded via Congress, and if Trump has the ability to yank their funding and force the CPB into the Private Sector.

If he does, then AMEN and GOOD RIDDANCE to the above.

If not - then Trump will need to get Congress to defund them.

[DCPatriot]

Ditto that!

It will be hilarious to listen to the heads explode on the Left and Hollywierd over this.

We have a terrific classical music PBR station at 90.9 on the FM dial....they're going to freak the hell out over this.

[SirLinksALot]

 The response to all these hysteria is quite simple... if more than enough viewers watch these shows, they will ALWAYS find a network to broadcast them. If not, then they don't deserve to survive.

Same reasoning applies to the arts. If there are enough patrons who love your art, your creative output will sell. If not, then it's probably crap that caters to a few.

[INVAR]

We have a terrific classical music PBR station at 90.9 on the FM dial....they're going to freak the hell out over this.

As one Leftist lectured me once at an ad agency in Chicago lo, back in the old days of the early 80's -  the free market (meaning us plebes) has no taste or culture, and does not know what is best for us, and therefore public funding of the Arts is necessary to keep it from extinction.

This was stated while I was busy chiding the morons across the street at the Art Institute protesting Reagan with purple and green hair while celebrating Maplethorpe and jars of urine with crucifixes in them.

[DCPatriot]

As one Leftist lectured me once at an ad agency in Chicago lo, back in the old days of the early 80's -  the free market (meaning us plebes) has no taste or culture, and does not know what is best for us, and therefore public funding of the Arts is necessary to keep it from extinction.

This was stated while I was busy chiding the morons across the street at the Art Institute protesting Reagan with purple and green hair while celebrating Maplethorpe and jars of urine with crucifixes in them.

That aforementioned station frequently holds fund raisers on-air....where you can get music CDs of the classics for specific $$$ donations.

This, while they were receiving grants/funding from the federal government.

Now, they'll have to have them quarterly....like TOS