Artists who pile sugar packets up and call it art... and public broadcasting executives are the hardest hit.
Mick Mulvaney, the former conservative congressman heading up OBM, has a basic common sense question.
As they fleshed out the budget blueprint released Thursday morning by the White House, Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney said officials from the administration of President Donald Trump asked themselves: Can we ask the taxpayer to pay for this?
“When you start looking at places that we reduce spending, one of the questions we asked was can we really continue to ask a coal miner in West Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to pay for these programs? The answer was no,” Mulvaney said Thursday morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “We can ask them to pay for defense, and we will, but we can’t ask them to continue to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.”
Of course we're going to hear the same old lies about killing Big Bird. Except that Sesame Street is an enormously lucrative brand. It's not the things people like about PBS that will be affected. It's the things leftists like about it.
And, more to the point, working class people should not be burdened with funding the tastes of the elites. Obama tried to wipe out coal miners. Trump is actually listening to them.
And then there's the NEA. The last time this battle was fought, lefties had to defend the sick and stupid stuff being funded by the NEA.
“A lot of those programs that we target, they sound great, don't they? They always do. We don't put a bad name on a program. Programs are always wonderful. It’s always small business or whatever. They don't work. A lot of them simply don't work,” he said. “I can't justify them to the folks who are paying the taxes. I can't go to the autoworker in Ohio and say ‘please give me some of your money so that I can do this program over here, someplace else, that really isn't helping anybody. I can ask them to help pay for defense. But I can’t do it anymore. I can’t go to them and say ‘I need your money to go help this program.’”