As in Donald Regan? When was he Prez? LOL!
Posted on 01/24/2017 5:49:11 PM PST by Hojczyk
Currently, a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money is given to National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) each year. Trump plans to do away with that. The Hill has reported:
“The Trump Administration needs to reform and cut spending dramatically, and targeting waste like the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be a good first step in showing that the Trump Administration is serious about radically reforming the federal budget,” said Brian Darling, a former aide to Paul and a former staffer at the Heritage Foundation.
The Regan Administration attempted something similar in the 1980s, but was ultimately convinced against it. One of the cases made was that the government owes the American people access to news/information. Back then, there was no internet, only a few dozen televisions/news radio stations. They saw it as an actual public service (perhaps, rightly so). Today, however, broadcast television and FM radio is in a major decline with fewer and fewer viewers every year. After all, who feels like waiting for the 6 o’clock news when you can just hop on the internet and get real-time news and current events?
On the Bernie Sanders campaign trail, he loved claiming that Norway was better than America. Well, Norway is planning to eliminate FM radio altogether. FM radio and satellite television are dying media forms that have been kept alive and propped up by government spending and the bureaucracy, so isn’t it good that we’re pulling federal funding? If are profitable and do in fact have a strong audience, they wouldn’t need to be subsidized with taxpayer money. Well, Hollywood doesn’t think so:
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
I can’t take it anymore!
TOO MUCH WINNING!!!!
I really hope this is true.
I really hope we cut this left wing welfare program out.
Donald Trump Singing All I Do Is Win by DJ Khaled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgda5GGExNs&list=RDjgda5GGExNs
Never. Liberals are hypocrites!
Defund it effective 90 days from today. Gives them enough time to find advertisers, sell off the brand or close shop.
The sun will still rise if PBS is off the air. And if an underserved market is determined, an entrepreneur may step up.
I have to admit that I like some of the stuff on Masterpiece.
Lol.
He always has that look on his face that Dog’s sometimes give ya.
Confused, and Amazed at the same time.
PBS/NPR are the propaganda wing of the Commie/Crat party.”
Let Soros fund them. He has tons of money to throw at whacky protestors and signs and such.
Sherlock is really good. I especially liked the last one as bizarre as it was.
Oh whatever will Mara Liasson do?
Get a real job?
Let the libs fund it if they love it so much.
It is a holdover from the FDR days and has always been left leaning.
80 years is enough at the taxpayer teat.
BINGO!!!
DEFUND
Dang! Public TV and radio, immigration, pipelines, zerocare,,,all in 3 days...
By next week, he will have nothing to do..
I love all this winning!!!
Make sure we are no longer funding Pacifica radio either.
This is a revolution. The left is never going to like Trump. They are never going to cooperate with him. So there is very little need to cooperate with them.
Yes, absolutely, NPR and NEA and NEH should be “privatized”, like, right now. This helps to make the Trump revolution irreversible.
Build the pipelines, get them in the ground. Once they are in the ground they aren’t going to dig them up. Close down entire government agencies; once they are gone they will never be back in their original form at least. In every way we can, make the revolution permanent. This is what Obama wanted to do in reverse, and this is what we must do ourselves.
[As their owners, we should merely close the doors, fire the staff and sell the assets, not together just in its various parts.]
That would be best, yes.
PLEASE DO IT PRESIDENT TRUMP!
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