It’s Official: Trump Wants to Kill PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts

However, the NEA is actually a different thing, it's been a way for the government to donate grants to art efforts, museums, literature, stuff like that. Considering we do public education too, and art is important, why not?

Prove that art is important. Will art cease to exist without the NEA? This is what i'm trying to get across that nobody can seem to understand. There was art thousands of years ago and there will be art a thousand years from now. Why are you so hung up on the NEA? Why would it not be self-sustaining?

Is it at least possible that the NEA isn't really all that important? Is is possible that the majority of people really don't want to fund it? Again, Maybe i'm wrong and we will see how important it is when funding is pulled.

I really don't want to get into a long drawn out thing about this because it's really a super simple issue. Everything has value. If the public didn't want cell phones, NOBODY WOULD BUY THEM! It's really that simple. Big Bird or NEA or NPR are no different. You can make claims about how it's not democratic because we didn't vote on this stuff but guess what? I did! I voted and I hope you did too. Elections have consequences. Maybe the left won't stay home next time but none of this is illegal or unfair or even unreasonable.

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