Trump Takes Aim at Libraries

[pokerfan]

Donald Trump's "America First" budget proposal for 2018 puts working-class communities last, calling for the elimination of several federally supported, independent, cultural institutions, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

IMLS helps fund literacy and technology programs in 123,000 libraries and about 35,000 museums across the US -- all with a budget of just $230 million, which is about .05 percent of the entire federal budget.

IMLS is currently funded through a continuing resolution that expires on April 28, 2017, and additional legislation must be passed for funding to continue.

If Trump's budget passes, the cuts will have a devastating impact on those who utilize public libraries in rural areas and poor urban communities in particular.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40353-trump-takes-aim-at-libraries

[underpants]

1. Not even surprised at this point.

[Runningdawg]

2. What do you expect from a man

who reads (at best) at a 5th grade level?

[yuiyoshida]

19. I guess piles of books to burn eventually

The way this country is going....

The man is nuts.

[Runningdawg]

31. Exactly

In the early 70's my parents, at the urging of the church, burned all my books. After that ANY book that came into the house was subject to the same. If it had not been for the library and a few stealthy hiding places, I would never have graduated HS. Methods have changed but the goal is still the same. Keep the people ignorant enough, long enough, to build a slave class.

[geek tragedy]

3. cities should pick up the slack for the urban libraries, we can afford it.

As far as rural America is concerned, well, fuck rural America--they inflicted Trump on the entire planet as a way to say "fuck you" to us.

[loyalsister]

7. "we"?

Not my small city, which happens to serve some rural towns that cannot afford to have one of their own.

[geek tragedy]

9. urban areas should focus 100% of their efforts and resources on helping their own

people in rural areas have earned whatever negative consequences befall them.

we're not all in this together anymore.

So, only city residents should be able to use those libraries. People living in Trump country will just have to make do with Fox News.

[loyalsister]

11. Seriously???

A small urban area like mine has a small tax base and not a lot of money to go around.
It serves a city of just over 100,000 and several very small locales. My city is one of very few in my state that did not vote for 45. I'm not sure about the surrounding towns, but it doesn't matter. They should have access to the library. Particularly when there is limited internet access in some of those areas.
I am astonished by how cold-blooded self proclaimed liberals can be.

[geek tragedy]

12. 2016 was the launch of a non-violent civil war.

Instead of firing cannons at Fort Sumter, they decided to inflict Donald Tr*mp on us.

the last thing we want to do is reward such behavior by fighting for their well-being.

this country will move forward only when the Tr*mpers suffer, and suffer hard, because of his actions.

Only then, maybe, will they decide that the well-being of their families is more important than prosecuting their cultural grievances. Because obviously the well-being of people who aren't uneducated, white, Christian, and heterosexual means exactly nothing to those folk.

So, do I think people in blue-voting areas should give "free stuff" to Tr*mpers? fuck no.

[loyalsister]

32. You're talking about my friends and family

Real people who have children and hopes for them. It may make you feel better to consider them of no value and only worthy of the worst that come to them, but it's actually just venomous hate very much like what we hear from 45's supporters.

[geek tragedy]

33. that kind of division is what happens in civil wars

in a perfect world no one would have to suffer. Since the dumb fuck trash of America decided to install Trump as our President, however, there will be suffering--it is unavoidable.

Now, it is pretty damn obvious who ought to bear the burden of his misfeasance and malfeasance--those who lined up behind him as an unthinking, proudly ignorant mob.

[loyalsister]

34. You just seem to want to show meanness and hate

Nothing would please the other side more than if we all started acting like them.

[geek tragedy]

36. we fought the Civil War, and the Cold War, and two World Wars, to prevent men like

Donald Trump from ruling over us.

All along the most dangerous enemies reside within our states and our own families.

[Tanuki]

25. If you ate something today, you might want to consider who grew it

and whether you will have anything besides library books to eat in your fantasy "urban vs. rural" civil war. Democrats know that we are all in this together.

[bigbrother05]

29. That would argue for more libraries in rural areas

ignorance is the lifeblood of the Right

[Warpy]

4. He and his class want to strip this country bare

I'm afraid it's going to be up to us to scare the hell out of the Republican Congress so that they are prevented from doing so.

[Eyeball_Kid]

5. He's the blue collar billionaire who can't get his hands dirty...

... when presented with shaking hands with any of the unwashed masses.

[Doreen]

6. Odd this would be brought up today.

I was thinking about that yesterday. I see library's getting closed and books at store going up really high. So, poor people who can not afford to buy books will no longer be able to read for either pleasure or for study. I suppose Devilos has something to do with this. She and the rest of this administration are bent on making America uneducated.

[smirkymonkey]

20. Grrrr! I knew they would try to pull something like this!

Every single day it is another assault on decent American values. When will we say enough? Why can't we stop this?

[Doreen]

30. It is a real challenge to fight dictators.

That is exactly what we are doing.

[Initech]

8. So he'll be able to go golfing at Trump resorts another few weeks?

[lpbk2713]

10. My disdain for him goes beyond politics.

He wants to attack anything that is good or worthwhile. Trump
and his inner circle are disgusting human beings.

[pokerfan]

13. Libraries, museums, arts and humanities,

public radio & television, clean air, clean water, etc. etc.

Amazing how they can be against all these things.

[AwakeAtLast]

14. My BIL will lose his job

Anyone gonna hire a 49 y/o with a Library Science degree?

[Luciferous]

15. He just wants to ruin EVERYTHING good in this country doesn't he?!

[Tanuki]

16. Meanwhile, Ivanka Antoinette tweeted an airy little "honor" to libraries

https://www.google.com/amp/attn-google-amp.herokuapp.com/stories/16444/ivanka-trumps-tweet-about-libraries-backfired



"This #NationalLibraryWeek, we honor our libraries and librarians for opening our eyes to the world of knowledge, learning and reading!
7:03 PM - 13 Apr 2017"

The reaction was swift and pointed. A few examples:

Your dad wants to cut all of our federal funding but thanks for the tweet. #SaveIMLS

Link to tweet

…
7:50 PM - 13 Apr 2017

Cuts to federal funding for libraries are absolutely unconscionable, cruel, and unnecessary. #saveIMLS #library pic.twitter.com/zVTpNsRo8W
8:19 PM - 13 Apr 2017

Perhaps you can tell your father to not cut funding for libraries and to read some books about history while you're at it. Thanks!
7:59 PM - 13 Apr 2017

Your dad is trying to defund IMLS which provides essential funding and guidance to all public libraries. We don't need your honor. #saveimls https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump

[HeiressofBickworth]

22. We need to closely track what Trumpett says

-- seems that whatever she praises is the next thing her father attacks. Libraries, she praised them, he will cut funding for them. In Germany, she got booed for saying her father was supportive of women's issues, and yesterday, he called for the elimination of the department that works on women's rights world-wide. Yup, she is a harbinger of nasty acts by her father. It leaves only the question of whether she is lying or is stupid. Either way, she is (fill in the blank)!

[Cha]

24. Sickening little gaslighter

[nikibatts]

17. Remember, Trump loves the poorly educated.

[sarcasmo]

18. Brawndo.

[pokerfan]

21. It's what plants crave.

[Cha]

23. Hope there were no misguided Librarians

who voted for him.. but I bet there were.

Mahlao, pokerfan

[nocalflea]

26. Net neutrality is in jeopardy too .

The" War On Knowledge " continues.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

27. For Trump so loveth the poorly educated

he did his best to create more of them.

[Vinca]

28. BLOTUS seems to be trashing everything that is good about this country from

national parks, to PBS, funding for the arts and now books.

[NastyRiffraff]

35. A badly educated populace is the Right's wet dream

Never mind that it's horribly short-sighted for obvious, economic reasons as well as being contrary to just plain common sense. Someone like Dump appeals to the uneducated and badly educated. He talks their language; a language consisting of approximately 200 words. He doesn't read but instead compulsively watches TV.