Trump Administration to Defund NPR/PBS

[SavedByGrace1980]

PBS/NPR In Panic: Trump Administration To Defund/Privatize

Lucian Wintrich Jan 24th, 2017 4:08 pm 304 Comments

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?

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/01/pbsnpr-panic-trump-administration-defundprivatize/

 

Blessings,

-Ed

EDIT:  Curious as to what our resident 'libertarians' have to say about this

Edited January 31, 2017 by SavedByGrace1981

[Guest shiloh357]

NPR and PBS have outlived their usefulness. They need to just go away.

[SavedByGrace1980]

42 minutes ago, shiloh357 said:

NPR and PBS have outlived their usefulness. They need to just go away.

I agree - but can't you just see the headlines now?

TRUMP TO TAKE BIG BIRD AND BARNEY THE DINOSAUR AWAY FROM KIDS

Blessings,

-Ed

 

[OneLight]

NPR and PBS have turned to the solid left.  All one has to do is listen to them.  They should be privatized as they are not news, but a spin on news.

Now, if they just reported the facts, along with the Main Stream Media, then they would be fulfilling their job.  Once they put their personal spin on news, they no long remain a news broadcaster, but a commentary of the news as seen through their eyes.

[Running Gator]

PBS/NPR should have gone private long time ago that is for sure.  

This is classic Trump though, big headline, little impact.  He is going to spend 25 billion dollars on a wall we do not need, but hey lookie here, I am cutting out a half a billion to make up for it!  

It is still about headlines and not substance with Trump.  I doubt that will ever change.

[other one]

1 hour ago, Out of the Shadows said:

PBS/NPR should have gone private long time ago that is for sure.  

This is classic Trump though, big headline, little impact.  He is going to spend 25 billion dollars on a wall we do not need, but hey lookie here, I am cutting out a half a billion to make up for it!  

It is still about headlines and not substance with Trump.  I doubt that will ever change.

billion here, half a billion there....    that's how Dave Ramsey gets people out of debt....

[Running Gator]

4 minutes ago, other one said:

billion here, half a billion there....    that's how Dave Ramsey gets people out of debt....

But at that same time he is telling them not to spend 25 billion on a needless project.

[other one]

11 minutes ago, Out of the Shadows said:

But at that same time he is telling them not to spend 25 billion on a needless project.

i  think most of us didn't/don't think it is a needless project...

[Guest Teditis]

Personally, I think a wall(s) is going to prove fruitless... unless they're manned and patrolled 24/7.

Otherwise, it will be a waste of good money and probably show America to be full of foolish rich

people. (Which, I guess it is.)

It would probably be better spent on other boarder-control assets that already exist plus putting

a large focus on stopping all smuggling operations of all types. Arrest smugglers and give them

very harsh sentences doing hard labor or isolation in max-prison systems.

As for NPR/PBS... yeah, they should be privately funded.

[Running Gator]

35 minutes ago, Teditis said:

Personally, I think a wall(s) is going to prove fruitless... unless they're manned and patrolled 24/7.

Otherwise, it will be a waste of good money and probably show America to be full of foolish rich

people. (Which, I guess it is.)

It would probably be better spent on other boarder-control assets that already exist plus putting

a large focus on stopping all smuggling operations of all types. Arrest smugglers and give them

very harsh sentences doing hard labor or isolation in max-prison systems.

As for NPR/PBS... yeah, they should be privately funded.

Here is a solution that would save money and not drive us further into debt.

We have about 95,000 troops in Europe right now that cost the US money to keep there. We bring half of them home and station them along the southern border.  That is close to 50,000 troops to guard 1000 miles of border.  

We save money on troops in Europe, we save money on not building a wall and we save money each year on not maintain the wall and not paying for those troops in Europe.  And our military is actually defending OUR country vice someone else's.