Recissions package passed and should be signed by Trump

[mspart]

So this package excises funding for PBS and NPR, USAID and other stuff to the tune of $9+ billion.  

Reportedly this is the first time in many many years that a recissions package has passed Congress.  

I realize this is not much money, but what does everyone think.   Rs voted to remove the funding, Ds voted against it, both houses of Congress.  

mspart

 

[Wrestleknownothing]

20 hours ago, mspart said:

So this package excises funding for PBS and NPR, USAID and other stuff to the tune of $9+ billion.  

Reportedly this is the first time in many many years that a recissions package has passed Congress.  

I realize this is not much money, but what does everyone think.   Rs voted to remove the funding, Ds voted against it, both houses of Congress.  

mspart

 

I think it is bad and petty to remove funding for these items. USAID and NPR have been covered in other threads, but are we really getting rid of Sesame Street? This seems more vindictive than fiscal. 

[headshuck]

Why could only Big Bird see Snuffleupagus?

[red viking]

Piddly bs cuts. Don't amount to jack squat. All show, so the dumb wingers think we're making cuts that have any significance whatsoever. DUPED. 

[JimmySpeaks]

11 hours ago, headshuck said:

Why could only Big Bird see Snuffleupagus?

Sesame Street went woke.  Ba Bye 

[Lipdrag]

12 hours ago, red viking said:

Piddly bs cuts. Don't amount to jack squat. All show, so the dumb wingers think we're making cuts that have any significance whatsoever. DUPED. 

I agree they are piddly in terms of deficit reduction.  But I also am a subscriber to the broken windows theory of policing.  And making your bed every morning.  These piddly cuts are the pork barrel budgeting analogy to fixing windows, clearing graffiti, and nipping it in the bud.  Small things matter for what they indicate about character, resolve, dependability.  

Watch those last 3 words trigger some of our brethren!  3 . . . 2. . . .  1 . . . 

 

[Wrestleknownothing]

20 minutes ago, Lipdrag said:

I agree they are piddly in terms of deficit reduction.  But I also am a subscriber to the broken windows theory of policing.  And making your bed every morning.  These piddly cuts are the pork barrel budgeting analogy to fixing windows, clearing graffiti, and nipping it in the bud.  Small things matter for what they indicate about character, resolve, dependability.  

Watch those last 3 words trigger some of our brethren!  3 . . . 2. . . .  1 . . . 

 

It is not those three words, it is these two words I disagree with, pork barrel. These are not pork barrel items. These all have national, or international, impact. Their removal fits the reverse defenition. They represent pandering to the base to win votes. This is not about the value of the programs, it is about the marketing value of cancelling them. 

[Caveira]

1 hour ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

It is not those three words, it is these two words I disagree with, pork barrel. These are not pork barrel items. These all have national, or international, impact. Their removal fits the reverse defenition. They represent pandering to the base to win votes. This is not about the value of the programs, it is about the marketing value of cancelling them. 

It’s his second term.   What votes is he pandering for?

[Lipdrag]

56 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

It is not those three words, it is these two words I disagree with, pork barrel. These are not pork barrel items. These all have national, or international, impact. Their removal fits the reverse defenition. They represent pandering to the base to win votes. This is not about the value of the programs, it is about the marketing value of cancelling them. 

Interesting take.  Of course you are right that traditionally the term pork applied to the old Robert Byrd model of bringing federal money back to the district or state to serve a purely local interest.  I expanded the term to beyond a geographical constituency to an ideological constituency - applying the concept of pork barrel to an expenditure serving only one side of the political spectrum.  Cancelling the programs is no more base pandering than funding the programs.

Your last statement shows we are in agreement about this being analogous the the Broken Windows Policing theory.  The message (i.e. marketing) is the value.