Alvin Flummux wrote:Trump's new budget would eliminate funding for NPR & PBS, gut funding for a program that brings doctors and nurses to under-served rural communities, would privatize the International Space Station, etc.
It amazes me to see so many Americans claim publicly funded news is somehow evil and always liberal. It's like they can't fathom that just because the BBC gets government funding doesn't mean the government can tell the news desk what to write about.
I can point to the BBC getting politicians on all sides fired due to good journalism but they always come back with the idea that public funding = state owned media.
They don't even see the irony of Trump having his own strawberry floating news station.
I won't even start on how some Americans feel about healthcare as it pretty much boils down to "I'm not paying taxes to help pay for someone else's treatment" which is about moronic as it gets. The simple idea that I help pay for others to get treated so then when I need treatment they can pay for me doesn't seem to get through to them.