02-17-2020, 10:07 AM
(02-17-2020, 08:52 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: There are lots of little stories that come out of the release of the president's proposed budget that don't necessarily deserve their own thread, so I figured some of those could go in one place.
I'll start off with one I just saw this morning; funding for Stars & Stripes is being eliminated.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/esper-defends-stripping-stars-and-stripes-of-all-funding-says-news-organization-is-not-a-priority-1.618614?fbclid=IwAR3art40WSiSyiUQXkcRe0n-ZbU2g5730xLhLfwQCyCct7dkjncJLmbDspU
You'd think if they were going to do this, they would at least cut it from the budget and not re-invest it.
“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”-Thurgood Marshall